DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SYDNEY.
(Per Press Association.) Sydney, November 25.
One of the most disastrous fires which has occurred in the city for some years broke out at 10 o'clock on Saturday night. The building in which the fire originated is a large four storey one situated in Market street, and occupied by the Sydney Evening News, Town and Country Journal, Illustrated News, and several professional offices. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade as well as all the volunteer brigades were smartly on the scene, but were unable to prevent the destruction of the block of buildings, though their efforts were successful in' preventing the spread of the fire to the adjacent premises, which escaped with slight damage. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it must have had a good hold when first discovered as it spread with lightning rapidity, and in a few minutes there was nothing left to mark the fine block of offices but a pile of seething embers, &c. The sight while the fire was raging was one of grandeur, and it was quite two and a-half hours before the danger to the adjacent premises was removed. The amount of loss is unknown, but the premises were insured in the Australian Mutual Insurance office for £32,000, of which, however, nine-tenths is reinsured in various offices. The other insurances are unknown, but it is believed the amount is fully £15,000. The whole of the machinery used in connection with the publication of the papers mentioned was destroyed, but as the proprietors had taken the precaution to have a duplicate plant erected in a separate building, it is expected that the publication will not be long delayed. November 26.
The" proprietors of the Evening News estimate their loss by the fire on Saturday night at £60,000. They have made arrangements with the proprietors of the Sydney Morning Herald for the publication of the News, and the Government have placed the Government Printing Office at the disposal of the proprietors of the Town and Country Journal in order that the publication of the weekly may not be interrupted. The proprietors of the Sydney Daily Telegraph have also offered to assist the Evening News in getting out their paper. The Victoria, National, Standard, United, and New Zealand Insurance Companies each hold a line of £3200 of the Australian Mutual's reinsurances of the total amount held by the latter office on the building destroyed by fire on Saturday night.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SYDNEY.
Otago Witness, Issue 1932, 30 November 1888, Page 13
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