FIRE AT AUCKLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2818, 4 October 1883, Page 2

FIRE AT AUCKLAND.

NABROW ESCAPE OF A FAMILY. [By Telegraph.] Auckland, Oct. 3. A fire broko out at one o'clock this morning m the centre of a block of five wooden shops m Wyndhim street. The conflagration originated m a shop and tenement occupied by Jacobs, bootmaker. Jacobs, bis wife, and two children who slept m ibe upper storey narrowly escaped with their lives. Mra Jacobs was wakened by the bed-room be* oiming full of smoke, and at the same time the noticed fliuie? issuing from tho shop windows below. A neighbor, attracted by her screams, prooured a ladder and reecued one of tbe children by the windows. Mrs Jacobs, m her excitement, got out at another window and fell to the ground, but escaped unhurt. Mr Jacobs and the other child escaped by clambering into tho window of an adjoining Bbop. The Fira Brigtde succeeded m confining tbe ravages of iha fire to Jacobs' shop, though Hare's stationery, Buckton'o second-hand, and Cavanagh's grocery Fhops were much injured, Jacobs' etock was insured for £500 m the Siandard, Hare's for £200 m the Norwich Onion, CaTanagh's for £150 m the -touth British, and Buckton's for £500 m the Union. The bui'ding belonged to Glenfield and Mo.on. The block was insured m the Houth Brit sh for £2000, and the estimated loss lo the building i» £500.