FIRE IN MILTON.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 127, 15 December 1876, Page 5

FIRE IN MILTON.

— - — _♦ ■ . The most extensive fire that has yet occurred in Milton, took place bn Wedries--daylast, when the Criterion^6t6LMr'R. Capstick's store and offices, Messrs TaylbVa and George Capstick's Offices, ''aria^\M_- T-. Poole's, house and shop "were entirely 7'destroyed^. The fire was first diseoWfed -At five minutes to one o'clock burs^tthg -out from under the roof of *, the .bbtel,' ''which has been empty, for the! v . and must ii have originated M^e^'u^^' storey. The other prenuses named-being* ; adjoining, were speedily;, cpnsnM&y'ffif: •' R. R.v Jones's hall, being brick, 'sto^^i' the progress of the fire to the' We'st, ; -b^p^ : wise the whole buildings to the .t^tle&dS ing to the railway, station must have been burnt down., : -As it was, a gpod riiah'/ •b. . fthe inhabitants along that lime jremo'ved '■>. their .goods, which .were considerably damaged.;, , The fire brigade ; t'^ed^'bX.t* and, .did alb that was,. possible under the : circumstances. thereis no XJUl'e to ;the origin of .the fy:e_ '"but":^W strict'^ijqijiiy will rip doubt be held. .The .^EbwibgUW the] \ estimated losses ••-^Josenhv 'Hew'son-, . LlOOOr; R. JWI ,CaiwtM;yLgo6'^W_a» * Brinngezu, L3fjd:;/R. ,R. ; -Jon^ lilfc") \ ; Geo.,G.wpstick 4 L 75 j' r W,'^i(^olafe*-^mi • < 'T*£y Poole* ' L2s;* ' *Waltei* ' tsßrlxfM I . i -Dpnaldr^id^LlO. .^jf^^liM^^ -|'<wh<sle- are ;coye;red". hy.Ms^^9iX^xXH »rtW- np, -.p^.XyX^'XX "'■■*(W ot ' ts ' - - <y*x, lyxyxxyixxpx hi x **wt?wx^ -