Waipawa.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5614, 27 August 1889, Page 3

Waipawa.

|_OWN' COMUvSrO. DKNT.J

The following are the Particulars of the 6re at 0. O'Donoghue's Hotel, Wanstead on Sunday morning:-It appears thatthe house was closed early on Saturday evening, Mr O'Donoghuo went round tho houso and saw everything was safe, .etiring to bed at 10 t> m About 2 a.m. ft man named Neary, who was sleeping upstairs with four other boarders suddenly awoke, and secnnga g are and hearing a crackling noise outside roused his fellow boarders with cries of ..Fire" the landord jumped up, and hastened outside, where he saw that tho detached store thirty-nine feet distant was on The end farthest from the hotel a closet adjoining was already burned. Iho wind was blowing towards the hotel, and the corner had already caught. As there were two tanks filled with water -3n that end of the building he succeeded in «tinguisbing the fire on the outside, and he had no sooner done this than he saw aomo sparks rising from the roof at the Tave.; then realising that tho fire had crept inside of the lining, he saw further d_ort to save the house was unavailing, a_d ie called out to his wife and family to come »way. Meantime the boarders were em/aged saving what they could, but this amounted to little, as while trying to save some bedding the roof fell in, and the whole place, a* well as the store, was consumed speedily. Mr O'Donoghuo had only just got in a valuable stock of stores and liquors, ana he estimates bis loss at £300 over Ins "'»«-inc<>. Among the things lost was a valuable gold watch and chain and other valuables A lodger named Cordes left £13 in notes under his pillow. A supposed cask of spirits in the bar was saved, but it turned Sbe empty. The value of tho things Zed did not exceed £5 to £.. The family Sot temporary shelter at Mrs. Popes hoarding house, a short distance from the ioteL "The building which was erected five years ago at a cost of _9<o for Mr b. McGreevy, was insured in the South British <,ffic- for £600, and the furnituro at 1300 and the stock in tho store for _300 m the Union. It is supposed that «omo person threw down a match in the closet, which smouldered for some time, ultimately setting fire to the store, fiom which the fire spread 40 The story told by the Palmerston paper toThe eflee. that Mr J. H. Jull was about to be removed to the Foxron statum, turns out to bo after the nature of the.three black crown," its only basis being that some *»o or throe months ago the station- «_«_ ter a, Foxton asked for a oh.miw on the CrOUlld of ill-health, and the present yarn ■was tho result after passing through many "ah. Hicktou, horse-tamer, had crowded ftMUses on Saturday and last evening at the E__ositorv. to see his really very clever 3r nances. Two wild unbroken horses IrouKht in by the Maori, were speedily handled and reduced to a most abject conmfiou, made to do everything ho wished, and .allowing him to lie down among their legs While prostrate on the ground. Some of the horsey fraternity tried to unseat the Ikflfiil performer when on horseback but S„d hhn able to keep hia seat as firmly as if he had become part of the horse.