BED JACK'S.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1888, Page 19

BED JA C K'S.

(From an occasional Correspondent.)

ABOUT 2 o'clock in tha afternoon of Friday last, the 29th June, a blaze was observed to be issuing from the chimney of the hotel of the arm of Gillin and Devery, and by night-fall the building, which was a two stoned one, was completely burued to the ground. The hotel was situated at the " Twelve Mile," which meanß twelve miles from Grey mouth on the Reefton Main Road. There are two other hotels in the township which, owint* to the exertions of the navvies and other residents were saved from destruction.also the firm's butcher shop, out offices and a good deal of, the bedding, furniture, liquor, etc. Great sympathy is felt for the loss the firm has sustained, more especially as I am given to understand the building was not insured. Great sympathy is also felt for the boarders staying in the hotel who have lost all they possesed, particularly a Mr. Elders, who is clerk of works of Mr. Brown's railway contract. He lost, with other things, valuable papers which cannot be replaced. I may state that this gentleman is highly esteemed in the neighbourhood. I visited the Twelve Mile on Sunday laßt, and observed there was nothing to indicate where the hotel stood, but the charred still smoking piles, a brick chimney, ■tack hoops of liquor barrels and iron beadsteads.