FIRE IN A PRODUCE STORE.
Auckland, This day,
A fire broke out in Messrs Hesketh .and Aitkcn's produce store, Durham-street, at 10 o'clock last night, but it was got under by the Fire Brigade. The stock on the top storey was flax, hay, grass-seed, kc The insurance on the building is £-100 iv the South British, and on the stock £150 in the South British. Messrs T. and S. Morrin had £2000 worth of casks and cases of ironmongery stored in tho building, the insurance being £1500 in the New Zealand offico, These goods were partly damaged bywatep.' "' The Ib's.sps fti'p Wholly covered by insurance. The lire is suppOsccHo have originated by spontaneous combustion in a bale of flax.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3726, 25 June 1883, Page 3
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