FIRE IN WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 15, 18 January 1901, Page 4

FIRE IN WELLINGTON.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day

Two three-storey warehouses in Willis-street, those of Wrigglesworth and Binns, photographers, and the Singer Sewing Machine Company, were totally destroyed by fire, which broke out at five o'clock this morning. The fire is presumed to have started in the middle floor of Wrigglesworth and Binns', a.t the back. Luckily there was a dead calm, and the fire brigade was able to prevent the spread of the flames to adjoining buildings. The insurances on Wrigglesworth & Binns' building (owned by Jacob Joseph) was £ 1600 in the Commercial Union, with reinsurances of £200 in the London and Lancashire, £150 in the Victoria, and £500 in the South British. The Singer building (also owned by Joseph) was insured for £2500 in the Commercial Union, and reinsured to the extent of £250 in the Sun, £250 in the Alliance, £150 in the Standard, £200 in tbe London and Lancashire, £250 in the Australian Alliance, £250 in the Norwich Union, and £250 in the Liverpool, London and Globe. The contents of Wrigglesworth & Binns' were insured for £400 in the Alliance, and £150 iv the Standard. The contents of Singer's are said to bo insured in a Sydney office.