FIRE AT DUNEDIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 66, 21 March 1901, Page 2

FIRE AT DUNEDIN.

MUCH DAMAGE. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Dunedin, last night. A fire broke out at about 6.33 in the New Zealand Express Company's brick stables, stores, etc., in Cumberland-street, taken over from .James Dutliie and Co. when that business was acquired. The fire broke out in the new building, only completed about six weeks ago, and the whole of this, covering three-quarters of an aero, was gutted. It comprised a 48stalied stable and q large store room, 100 feet square, above it. Most of the horses and carts were got out, hut some six or seven horses were burned. The other building, also of brick, including a blacksmith’s and saddler’s shops and stables and loft, was damaged about the roof only. No particulars can be got yet of the extent of the damage. It is said that about £SOOO worth of furniture stored in ' the building was destroyed. The buildings, and goods are insured, but the amount is not ascertainable.

"The damage done by the fire at the New Zealand Express Company’s stables is estimated at between £7OOO and £BOOO. The new building was valued at about £2500. There were 71 horses in the stables, of which about six appear to have been burnij to death. Sixteen drays and two furniture vans in the yards were destroyed. The value of the furniture in the store-room is difficult to estimate. About £IOOO worth of the late Hon. Larnaeh’s furniture is. included. Probably £3OOO would be about the value of the whole. The building, plant, contents, etc., were insured for £8770; in the New Zealand Insurance Company, that company being re-insured with the Guardian, United, National, and Victoria. -