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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 187, 17 June 1879, Page 2

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*- 'V" ——• GREAT FIRE IN WELLINGTON. TEN ACRES SWEPT CLEAR, (PER PRESS AGENCY. WELLINGTON. Monday. Last night's fire swept over 5 acres of ground, destroying about thirty buildings. The insur ances, as far as can be ascertained, are as follows South British, £3,400, net loss Transatlantic, £3,000 ; Union., £2,009 Victoria, £1,860 ; Royal, £9OO ; Nortl British and Mercantile, £1,250; Northern £030; Imperial, £G00; Hanscatic, £f>oo London and Lancashire, £OSO ; Colonial £1,400 ; Standard, £2,500 ; National £l,-150 ; Sun, £175. The New Zealanc Insurance amount is not obtainable yet but it was supposed that between three and four thousand, and when the strong-roon Branch of the Bank of New Zealand wai opened this morning, walls were blackened with smoke, but all contents uninjured Amongst the'eontents were all the papen connected with llliodes' estate. Buildings tlestroyecl—Opera, House, Englc man's fanoy bazaar, Eddie and Jack, bottlers Working Men's Club, Stratford's corn store. Bank of New Zealand, Waveup, bootmaker Smart's oyster shop, Hogarth's timber yard. Grave's ami Fleming's drapery shop, Bickman's boot shop, Wesleyan Churcl and School, Simeon, tailor,' Young's oyster shop, Brown, cabitnotmakcr, Nags Heiul Hotel and stables, Emeny's Hotel Market Hall, Williams, Cameron & Co., saddlers, Asliton, boot shop, and a lot ol outbuildings. A good deal of damage wai done to Te Aro house. Later. The following is a complete and corrected list of the insurances Snath British, £3400; Transatlantic, £3000; Standard, £22000: New Zealand, JG2500; Union, £2500 ; Northern, £1500; National, £1450: Colonial, £1400; Victoria, £1500; Nortli British, £1200; Hans'eatic, £1100; Royal, £900; London and Lancashire, £900; Imperial, £SOO ; Magdeburg, £500; Gvardian, £3OO ; Sun, £175; Manchester, £150; Norwich Union, £l5O, The Liverpool, London, and Globe, the A, A. and the United have nc fisk,

A meotiitg of the insurance agents takei place thw afternoon. . K| The report of a man being burned at the hH fire jms a mistake. H 9 Browne, manager af the Opera House, H made arrangement's within an hour of the H place being burnt for Hiscock and Hayman gj to play at the Theatre Royal. H Eddy and Jack lost nearly the whole of S their stock, but were heavily insured—build- H ing for £1850,• stock for £9OO. Mrs Elder, M who for the past twelve months has kept a 9 little fruit shop, was uninsured, and esti- .fl mates her loss at £2OO. Scott, ironmonger, •. estimates his loss of stock at £1200; insured . for £BOO. He had fifty busbie3 andanum- • IB berof guns, which were saved, Cameron B saved the whole of his stock, but it was con- 9 siderably damaged in removal. Hickman's H boot and shoe shop contained a large stock, ■ amounting to about £BOO, It was partly * covered by insurance and the bulk of it I saved. Simeon saved nearly the whole of 1 his stock. He had only been in Mannersstreet shop a week, The Wcsleyan Church was built about six years ago at a cost of £4OOO, its present value being estimated at • £0000; insured for £2OOO, Some of Engleman's stock was removed into the Bank, but as that.bnilding was shortly afterwards in flames the goods were destroyed. John Ho-' garth's timber yard, at the back of the Opera House, was insured. He estimates his loss at £IOOO. The Naval Brigade did good ser- \ vice in saving property. Gorman, acting custodian at the Opera House, in his endeavors to save the Theatre Company's property, the piano, and wardaobe, neglected bis own household goods, and lost them all as well as £25 in notes, Joyce, stage manager of Hiscock's, Haymau & Co,'s Company had a narrow escape with his life, havinc once been nearly suffocated with smoke. Miss Beatrice lost several pieces of valuable jewellery. In battling to save Smith's, l'e Ai'o House, every blanket in the shop was used, The goods in the shop were mostly uninjured, but the furniture upstairs was utterly ruined. It is computed that about 12,000 or 13,000 spectators witnessed the fire, Many came in from the Hutt and Petone. For a considerable time the surrounding hill 3 were lit up almost as bright as day. Jhcro were several narrow escapes from falling chimneys. At a meeting of the insurance agents to-day, they voted £SO to each Brigade and £25 each to the Naval Brigade and the salvage Corps. The Stella leaves for Taranaki this afternoon, taking up sixty of the Armed Constabulary. Thomas Mason announces himself a candidate for the Hutt seat. He favors the raiaing a loan for. public works and taxation of land.