WIND AND FIRE AT WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 86, 20 April 1885, Page 3

WIND AND FIRE AT WELLINGTON.

A Big Blare and a Violent Gale. — Hoavy Damage

(f.Y TKLKCRArU — I'KKSS AkS'ICIATTOK.)

I Wki.lincton-, Sunday. I A niu\ v pale eet in last night, and about four o'clock thU moining half tho Kxhibit ion Building, in <wo».r« o! erection, was blown down. Tho contractor estimates the damage at between £400 and £500. i A most serious conflf.gi'iitton broko out last nighty whfchi'csuUudSn tho total cle.tmetio"! Oi James Smith's " To Aro House' ! This establishment wa.s ono Of »!'.3 latest drapers' and clothipve1 IWVwowos in town, .-.nil about si' 3'ciock lnst night ono ot the :tr:i; iauts, in lifjhtinjj (ho paa in llio winJow, uceidentally hoI', lire to Komo fiibrics. Tho mo r.pctilily spread, mill i-e.«i,«tetl «.1V. o'uorts to exlitiyuish it. linmcdir.tcly the Ilnmoß ■were found to have a linii hold, all tho shutters won. . dropped to provout .1 draught, and tho fire hi-i^ailo wore on the fipet without delay, ■ but not in *u'.'!- .'.lent lime to stay the destp.ict'.cli ot tho liuilding. It was raining ; heavily at tho time, and such etook as was removed, if not damaged by water in the sido building, was destroyed by the rain. Tho following ero Iho insiirancof on tho building and atock as far a? at proSunt can bo ascoi'tained : — South British, £1,125; Colonial, £1,000: National, £500 ; Now Zealand, £1,500 ; Liverpool, London, and lilobe, £1,000; Northorn, £1,500 ; United, £250; Union, CSOO ; North Britieh, £iioo ; Hanseatic, £125; Victoria, £500; Fire Insuranco Association, £500; Norwich Union, £300 ; Australian Mercantile, £750 ; Run, i'f>oo ; Hamburg Madgburg, £500; Guardian, £1,500; Equitable, £700; London ofh'co (name unknown), £1,000. Total, £14,500. , j