Conflagration at Invercargill.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 966, 5 January 1882, Page 2

Conflagration at Invercargill.

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND

pounds Worth op property

DESTROYED.

[united press ASSOCIATION.] Inveroargiil, JiPt®, 12.25 *.m. A' tremendous conspiration occurred j here this evening, .resmg in the truction of a large' amount of property. It originated, it is believed, ill; | a shop on the western side of -Dee-street, .1 ocoupied by Mrs HuHhand rapidly ' spread to the For. j some time the at tht oorner of Dee and Spey "'streets wm ; in imminent danger/ but, thanks the almost superhuman exertioni.J of the Fire Brigade'-and others, , itf , destruction • was.. averted. The ware- 1 house is now the property of Messrs W. Paesley and Co,, and was formerly occir. pied by Guthrie and Earuach's Qotripanjr. ,1, The windows, although more than two chains distant from the burning buildings;. were nearly all broken ! by4hf) heat, and > considerable damage must have been done to the Btook. The building was.on fir# . ; several times. Other buildings on th« '; same side of the street had a narrow escape. The fire broke out at 10 o'olook, ; • and at midnight, when tlgjjraph officii closed, the following destroyed The by F. Campbell)! Mrsifflnah's grocery store, the Hibernian Hotel, aud Mi D. Roche's grocery and wine and spirit store, an unoccupied building known 88 ? the Red Liou Hotel,' McCluakey's boot; Bhop, Hanan's Temple of Science, W; Brown's drapery store, and Coopet'jy jeweller's shop. Cooper, and Brow|u

occupied a portion of Hanan'i buildr| ing. At midni«lit the Ore ; wa» still raging -with;unabated fury, and. in order to save the 'r'emainder/pf .th#; block strenuous efforts were being made tefci pull down the shops by J. en (tailor), W. Peterson (bootmaker), an|| A; Raeaide (pastry: cook)/ It is hopedthat by having 'adopted " this course tli|| White Swan Ho^l;will be saved f and.Jljpj buildings to tlje northward of it &IsovTHi| brigade wpvUed well;' but? by scarcity of w&teN'-Qmt epitome!! preyaile<|, and, still s&vail£>Tjio-.]fl must be i something* enormous. At rough guess, ■i25;000.'' , -'The insurances all far short of the amounts ar< not obtainable to.night.