DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

Bush Advocate, Volume IV, Issue 303, 19 April 1890, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

The Mangatera Hotel Burned We are exceedingly sowy to havi to " building which -ha* been?Mrnid; being;,, none other -than Mr L.Friis'B well-known Mangatera libt^l. ?; iAat evening the proprietor olosed the house 5 at lO o'clock, the, usual hour, there bung in the hotel at the time, besides t^iar^o^^Mr^^Oilitidi^^''' 1 and G. Nielsen, who a." retiridjto^wat at . the, hour named. Mr> Friiß was^ tht^lwii ! \ij> and ! )&id^^^^laMiksibi^^^ik ! \ round to Bee that everything wag iafe, which it: appafenj4y;: 'waa. A6oui;a2.'So. this morning ¥wok« and %*icovered that the house wab on fire. He quickly aroi^cJLjpther 1 inmates, J>njfc ; ;io, rapid was thf spread, pf the flames'., that practically nothing ; eMep^:^ tbookaV, *ootild)be!^aM^f[f i#MiSi&#? ; watch and clotliirig, and Air Giixnibur had not time tq rescue his traTeUin^- bag containing hi^toftchßrajand'^tKer vaperi, in i attempting to reooxer which he was almost smothered and had to be dragged out by Mr Friis. -The fire started at ttfe end of the house where the kitohen was situated, but no one has the slightest idea jb/sthfejJqan^fM the,igdttre%{- U few articles were saved tfotn tm/fi6m of th« house, but that was all, and Mr Gihxtour was conjßgipjoaß fpr> /thefiehergy he dis- . played in thVrefi'du'e. % { factMr Friis tells us he " worked like a Trojan.!? Tht fire will involr* a heayy > 1088 i ftppa Mr Friis whose insurance was about ! twothirdjßvpl yajijie. •;TUeM^wa&a ; p6UcyirOT: £600 oh' the building^'and^dßSOb on the stbck, both, in the New Zealand office. -A good deal j?f ; sympathy is., felt for Mr, JWia and some of the other hotelkeepets an helping him to make temporary arrangements ato carryu.on the business, like, HcenseTi^s been irahsf erred i» the «mbW „shop,near the Jate hotel: andthere for th» «pr«|»ftfrj:riiWduJ§, i&iiK ral^liftAJlis, Mr Friis will continue to act as " minenost."