FIRE IN WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 July 1913, Page 5

FIRE IN WELLINGTON.

DAMAGE DONE. '■. {By Association.) ;'%■>■ ■•'■;HmtLIiNGTON J . Last Night;; < A fire broke" out to-night, about 8 in ; the Otago Buffet, ou Lambton Quay, nearly opposite the police ! station, A strong northerly wind ; fanned the flakes, which soon had a ~.: good hold of, the buil<Jing, Vhich, was ■ «m'oldl ■; wooden structure jbi '•"two, }J[ store^ \'-"flak ■&>Worked through j "'f 'the;£mf^,^Meh;^«ifi:: gutted.,' practi- • •:' '«a^^fr^:':r^./> ; tO;'bottoni ; ; but its progress southward was stopped bj ~ ~ttho brick wall of Maekay's I J, storey bookseller's shop; . Before the 'flames could be suppressed, however, they made headway in the other direction 'against the wind, and went through the top floor of* the large wooden, building adjpining, occupied by Messrs Hood-Bros, (drapers), and <3rimineits (Lambton tea rooms). From there they entered the next building, Boucher's cycle store, the upper floor of which, like that of Hood Bros., was gutted. Large volumes of water were poured on to the burning buildings, and the ground floors are sure to be swamped out and the stocks ruined. On the ground floor of the' Otago Buffet building was also Bandinet's tobacconist's shop, which was gutted. The insurances asre not yet ascertainable. . v Later. | The Larirbton Quay fire insurances ; are r—Hood Bros, £2500 in the Yorkshire office on the stock, and a small ■ amount in another office, not ascer- ■ 'tainable to-night; Boucher, £3OO in the Yorkshire «nd £6OO in, the Northern offiee on the stock and fittings; Grimmett, £275 on the stock and fittings in the Royal Exchange; Paul (Otago Buffet) £3OO on the furniture in the London, Liverpool and Globe. The Buffet bujlding was owned by Hall and Wright; Hood Bros', and Grinraett's by Gilmer a.nd Maguire; and Boucher's premises by Peacock and Campbell. The insurances on the buildings are not yet ascertainable. '