FIRES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3955, 24 March 1884, Page 3

FIRES.

Auckland, This day

A fipe broke out at 4 o'clock yesterday morning in a house in Wellesley-street, temporarily unoccupied, bolonging to Mrs O'Connell, which destroyed also a two-story house of Mr Wilson, and partially damaged the residence of Mr L. D. Halstead and a house occupied by Mr Duppny,. Mrs O'Connell had been on a visit to the Thames with her son and two grandsons, but returned on Saturday night at 8 o'clock. On reaching her home, according to her statement, she found she had left her bag and key on the steamer and could not get into the house. Mr Wilson, as the night was very wet, gave her and the lads shakedowns in his house, tolling her she could send, to tlie steamer for tlie key m tncmornin<j. Her house was all in flames when the fire was first discovered. The insurances .are as follows: —Mrs O'Connell's fiveroomed cottage, £230, and £75 on some Limerick lace manufactured by her, in tho South British office; also £495 on house and furniture, but she could not tell the name of the oflice; Mr Wilson's, £400 on the house and £G0 on the furniture, in the South British; Mr Duppny , s furniture, £200 in the London and Lancashire ; Mr Dupphy's house, owned by Mr Trafford, dentist, £220 in tho New Zealand (partly damagod); Mrlialstead'stwo-Btoreycdhouse. 1 (eastern wing dostrqyod, also house damaged by water), £400 in the London and Lancashire. Mrs O'Connell is separated from her husband.

The explosion of powder , and dynamite caps at the burning of the store at Kawakawa, owned by the Bay of Islands Coal Company, caused damage to the extent of £500. '