DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 267, 10 November 1899, Page 4

DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION.

A BLOCK DESTBOYED,

NABEOW ESCAPE OE THE TOWN.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WAIHI, this day

A disastrous fire broke out here yesterday afternoon, resulting in S shops and 2 offices being destroyed.

, The fire broke out at 3 o'clock, in the front shop of Messrs McCarthy and Sutton, tailors, and quickly spread to the adjoining buildings, a two storeyed one occupied by Messrs Simmons, stationer; Barron, ' chemist; Thomas, dentist; Scott, photographer; and Clendon and Mueller, solicitors, who were occupying offices upstairs.

In the meantime the flames ran. back, taking Jones saddler's shop and that of Tanner, butcher, the whole block being destroyed. ~".-,--,

By the immense efforts of a brigade of willing- workers Taylor's shop opposite was saved, thus saving the whole towii from certain destruction.

The losses are as follow:—MeCarthy and Sutton, tailors. £125; Til-hill's- building's,' £150; Simmons, stationer, £50; Tanner, £150; insurance £420; Noonan, barber, lost everything. [The stock."o'&'Messrs McCarthy and Sutton was insured in the Victoria Office for £125. The other' shops, with the exception of.Tanner's, being, so far as is ascertainable in Auckland, uninsured.] The loss is estimated at about fifteen hundred pounds, of which £99S is I covered by insurance. The cause of the fire is unknown.