THE KAWAKAWA FIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 55, 7 March 1899, Page 5

THE KAWAKAWA FIRE.

FURTHER PARTICULARS

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)

KAWAKAWA, this day

After all is over we have no less than three policemen looking" after our welfare.

Mr George Brewer, jinm, had a most narrow escape. He was coming clown the fire escape ladder from the top of the three-storey premises with his box, and when he was in the middle of the ladder it broke. Mr Brewer fell on top of his box and escaped with slight hurt on his ribs. Some of Mr Brewer's family of girls and servants do not know how they escape' 1 ' *it they really got down a ladder i'rorn a verandah roof assisted by their elder brother, John, who was first out.

The correct insurances are: —

Star Hotel, of thirty rooms, insured in Ihe Standard by the owner (Mr Stewart) for £1,000; stock and furniture in the Norwich Union for the licensee (Mr Geo. Brewer), £050: private pianos, pictures and siting-room furniture £ 100 in the Alliance.

Black's drapery building, insured for the owner (Walter Swift) for £300 in the Alliance; slightly damaged.

Black's stock and furniture, in the Manchester, £400; probable loss through damage and breakages, ,-6-100; stock valued at £800.

Fleet's general store and bakery, insured in the Commercial Union for £1,350; nothing whatever saved.

Joseph McCready, boot stock. Standard, £50; some saved; building, owned by D. J. Kirkpatrick, destroyed, £100.

Win. Stewart (building Kirkpatrick) £100; and stock £300 in Standard; loss about £300; about £.100 saved.

Mrs McCready's fruit shop, nothing saved; Kirkpatriek's premises.

E. C. BlomneUl, solicitor, £300 in the South British: all the law books and some of the furniture saved. He loses about £200. He had a newlyerected concrete strong-room, which was broken open this morning, and everything in it was found in a good state of preservation. Had fences not been taken down and water freely used the 'Northern Lumiuary' Offices and private premises must have been desti'oved.