DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT REMUERA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9149, 3 September 1888, Page 3

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT REMUERA.

TWO HOUSES AND SHOPS DESTROYED. LOSS, ABOUT £1500. At about one o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out on the Remuera Road, between the Orakei Road and Green Lane, in a shop and dwelling occupied by Messrs). Trubshaw Brothers as a dwelling and produce store, next to the Public Hall; and, as there were no means available for checking its progress, it extended to the shop and dwelling of Mr. Win. Adcock, butcher, and both buildings, together with a large store 50 feet by 40 feet, attached to Messrs. Trubshaw's house, were burnt to the ground. The fire originated in Messrs. Trubshaw'shop. The, building, a two-storey one, consisted of the shop and five rooms. Mr. John Trubshaw states that he went to bed at eleven o'clock. He struck a match in the shop to light the candle and forgets whether he threw it down or not. He at once went to bed in a room upstairs, and was awakened at about one o'clock by a sense of suffocation. He then found that a fire was raging in the shop and egress by the stairway being cut off, he had to escape through the back window on to a verandah, from which lie reached the road. The fire was seen by Mr. Hartford, a stockman, who was passing at the time, and it then had a firm hold of the shop. It quickly extended, as already stated, to Mr. Adcock's butcher shop and dwelling, an eight-roomed wooden buiiding, which was demolished so quickly that there was only time to remove a very small portion of the furniture. Messsrs. Trubshaw's store and dwelling | were owned by their mother, Mrs. Trubshaw, of Greenlane, and were insured for £.100 in the New Zealand Insurance Office. The stock in the shop adjoining the store was insured by Messrs. Trubshaw for £400 in the same office. The loss on the building over and above the insurance is estimated at £150, and on the stock about £60. The furniture, valued at about £"20, was uninsured. Mr. Adcock's shop and dwelling were insured for £350 in the New Zealand office, and he estimates hi,s loss above the insurance at £100, besides his furniture, valued at £100, which was uninsured.