DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION AT BLENHEIM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2636, 30 June 1887, Page 2

DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION AT BLENHEIM.

,jf,/ ; ;. DAMAGE ESTIrfA'TED AT.. ■ 150,000. :'■,:•' / (United Press Association;) ' Blenheim, This day. A moat disastrous conflagration broke out at Blenheim shortly befpr» 2 o'clock this morning. The fire wag at first discovered in the apai'traeuis occupied by the family of Mr Carter, landlord of tho Criterion. Hotel. Tho lames soon had firm bold of the 'buil-

ding, and.quickly.spread to the adjoin' ing buildings occupied by Augustus, barber, Running along Market-street the firo consumed shops occupied bj Falconer, cabinet maker; Burns, suddlar Henley, boot-shop; Galloway, draper; Adams, butcher. The offices of R, j! Mncallisteiv commission agent, ,wet| piled down and thus stopped the pjf gress of the fire in this direction. I light Nor-Wester fanned the flamed down the street, destroying the Colonial Bank, Jubilee Drapery Warehouse! and shops of Williams, bootmaker, McKenzie, butcher, Tackes, stationer, Elderstran, confectioner, Elson druggist (No 1 shop) Ringstettd, barber, Pigst, olothier, Mullen, • draper,»Elson 'druggist (No 2 shop) Griffiths, auction. eer, Macey, photographer, Mason, watchmaker, Scott, confectioner, gutted. In Alfred St., the .Oddfellows Hall and ten cottages were consumed., It is estimated that the value of, prodestroyed will amount to £50,000.