INCIDENTS OF THE FIRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15, 2 December 1861, Page 2

INCIDENTS OF THE FIRE.

Two "{'or.-iH?. in iyve. of the IVitnezs, that remained cvi the machine, wcro me 1, fed completely, f-o irucn«e v, y;:s the heat. jiivcn ghiss tumblers were fused into shapeless masses. Tin: fire-en^ne was in tJie Tov/n Hali, f^id cs no one was there to give It up the police had to break o*>en the doors to procure it. The ?->ri]i.-.-o ib'-inr] fi cci;-h-!;ox in ?<lcs?r!s. Canvill ai;-I Go 's store, in w})ich \v;is a solid nn^-ret o('r;(;ki, the iirodtice of sovereigns and other coins incited up. It v.-as by no sneaisr, c?:.>y to pnt tho engine to work at first, find the decent down vhe sfecp bank made \"i;h diSvicuhy. For its sizt: tne engine i:- a splendid one. Mr. f 3on?p, ofilie Provincial, ir.aicl at t'sc di^po-ai of sill those Cuipkrrcd in c:-:;.i;igni>h-iijir tho fire, any rdYeshiujnis that his iiousc aiibrdech

Later rp.o?.i Llkluo.urne. —By the ITambur^l'i barque lt Oscar " \ve have n::vrs from 11 el bourne to the f:.Gth Kovtjnibcr. Isna ivKide a Fnlcndia passage of little over d-fat days, and the Captain lir.s received a il;Uteri:i^ fcstitTionial from his piFPcn.^ers, of who-n be brines 0:2. The En^Hsh ila.il had arrived. The' 41 Oscar " ami lk Oaieo " ha:! not reached Melbourne, so that two or three days r.ro likely to elapse before their return. The " John Al'cVi cur, from Of ago, wkh passengers, 1»nil arrived, and reported uniUyorably of the digging?, which had stopped the rush.