OWEN & GRAHAM'S WAREHOUSE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
DAMAGES SET DOWN Ar £30,000. fPBR PItBSS '''' "'* Auckland, Monday. Messrs. Owen and Graham's wholesale warehouse in Queon-straot was discovered to be on fire at a quarter to eight o'clock this morning. It originated in the basement of the storey used as a packing department. The flames wont up the lift to the fourth storey, which contains silks, fancy goods, &c.,—this being completely gutted. The Fire Brigade got the fire under in half-an-hour, but not before the wholo building was completely drenched with water, The loss* is estimated at £30,000. : ~....,■■.■.; ■;: , The insurances are:—Stock: New Zealand, £3,000; Hanseatio, £1,500; London and Lancashire, £1,000; Hamburg, £1,500; Victoria, £2,000; FireAssooiation, £2.500; Union, £1,000; Standard, £1,000; Norwich Union, £4,000; Northern, £3,000; National, £3,000; Sun, £2,500; London, Liverpool, and Globe, £3,000; United, £1,500; South British, £2,000; Colonial; £2,000; Manchostor, £1,000; Mercantile Union, £2,000; Impor'ial, £3,ooo—total, £40,500. Building; New Zealand, £2,000; Norwich Union, £1,000.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5183, 2 June 1885, Page 3
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152OWEN & GRAHAM'S WAREHOUSE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED. Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5183, 2 June 1885, Page 3
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