FIRES AT CHRISTCHURCH AND WAIKATO.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, Friday, Lust’s sawmill, at Oxford, with the machinery and 80,000 feet of timber, was burnt yesterday morning. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a spark getting into the sawdust, and smouldering during the right. Loss, £BSO ; insured for £IOOO in the South British. Auckland, Friday. A fire occurred in Hamilton East yesterday morning at 2 o'clock, destroying a blacksmith’s shop, occupied by Mr. Swan, and a dwelling house, occupied by Mr. White. White’s family escaped in their night dresses, saving nothing but a chest of drawers and some bedclothes. Insurances—Blacksmith’s shop, £121; building, £IOO ;.stock in private house, £75; all in the New Zealand Company, j Mr. Swan estimates his loss at £6OO.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 5870, 24 January 1880, Page 2
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