Great Fire at Apia, Samoa.
IBt Telegraph.] | united press association.! Auckland, This Day. The gunboat Eber reports that on the 9th inst., a disastrous fire broke oat in the township of Apia. Nine large houses (residences and stores of Enropeans) and 15 smaller dwellings were consumed. Among the buildings destroyed were the residences of Dr. Knappe, th« German Consul, Mr. Schmidt, Vice-Consul for Hamburg, an hotel, and two houses belonging to Mr. Gracemere, an English trader. The Royalist, Nipsic, and three German war vessels, viz., the Ober, Adler, and Olga sent parties of blueiickets ashore to assist the townspeople. The fire, however, burnt with vigonr throughout the 10th instant, and wag not finally smothered till the evening of that day. The origin is believed to have been accidental, the outbreak being supposed to have been caused by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp by a Chinese servant of one of the white residents. The amount of damage done has not yet been estimated.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1889, Page 2
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