THE LATE FIRE AT TIMARU.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1173, 22 December 1868, Page 3

THE LATE FIRE AT TIMARU.

In addition to the telegrams we recently published giving an account of the great fire at Timtru, we give the following revised list, of the properties destroyed and losses sustained by the the insurance companies, taken from the Timant Herald, of December 9:— Monday last may indeed be called "black Monday" for Timaru, as on that day one of the most disastrous fires that as ever taken place in New Zealand—a fire that in the short space of a little over an hour swept away thirty buildings, and destroyed, as far as we at present know, at least £70,000 worth of property. Unfortunately the wind was blowing fiercely from the north-west at the time, and to this cause may be assigned the reason that so many buildings, both isolated and in blocks, were destroyed, as the winds carried the burning embers and fired the shingled roofs of houses 200 or 300 yards distant from where the fire was raging. The following is a list of the buildings destroyed:— ON THE WEST SIDE MAIN SOUTH ROAD. Mr. D. Munro's furniture warehouse; Mr. Kitson's office (New Zealand Insurance Company); Mr. Nelson, tailor; Mr. Knight, painter; Mr. Wood, saddler; Mr. Seymour, watchmaker; Mr. Solomon, draper; Mr. French, seedsman; Mr. Younghusband, bookseller; Mr. G-reer, tobacconist; Mr. Jacobs, watchmaker; Mr. Eskine, grocer; Mr. Watkius, chemist; Mr. Williamson's offices; the Bank of New Zealand; the Po3t and Telegraph offices; private cottage up G-eorge-street; Messrs. Clai-kson and Turnbull's warehouses; Mr. Beldy, hairdresscs; Dr. Butler, chemist; Messrs. Clarkson and Turnbull's ironmongery store ; the Timaru Herald offices ; Mr. D. Solomon, draper; Mr. Bilton, bookseller; Mr. Byrne's private house; Exeoutor3 James King, butcher's shop and house; Messrs. M'Cra and Morgan ; Mr. Hitch, tinsmith. ON THE EAST SIDE MAIN SOUTH ROAD. Mr. Weaver, tailor; an empty shop ; premises of the Timaru Butchery Company; Mr. Perry's offices ; the Club Hotel; Mr. Mountford, photographer; Mr. Melton, private house; Mr. Melton's stables; Mr. Turnbull's brick buildings, occupied by Frazer Brothers', butchers, and Mr. Pogonowski, hairdresser; a small private house. The following buildings were damaged:— Messrs. Cain, Munro, and Co.'s warehouses ; Mr. Hutton, grocer ; Messrs. Todd, draper; Mr. Green, Ship Hotel. As far as we cau ascertain, the following list will show the amount of liability incurred by different insurance companies, viz : — Victoria £2,200 New Zealand • 8,000 Imperial ... 4,000 London and Liverpool and Globe 8,000 London and Lancashire ... ... 3,500 North British 2,500 Royal 2,000 £30,000