FIRE AT WELLINGTON.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 147, 29 June 1870, Page 2

FIRE AT WELLINGTON.

Yesteeday7afternoon, shortly after three; o'clock, the fire-hells rang out, and a dark cloud of smoke "was seen rising over the Terrace. An eager crowd wai. soon I-making its'way up, b«t on.reaching there,! out of breath, it was then thought that the fire was .on the Tinakori road. The fire. was,'hbwever, at the head of Bolton-street, closet to the residence, of the Hon. tho Attorney-General, in a house occupied by Mr. Isherwood, andifoiinerly tenanted by Mr. A.'.S. Allpn, Begistrijr. The premises could hardly have been alight half an hour, but they were in such.aj state of ignition as to be utterly beyond the power of aH. the fire brigades to save, even had there been water. A very small orbwd had by that time collected, but even ; among thos« few were a number of firemen, who rushed frantically about in search of water. , _5.r a time none appeared to be obtainable nearer than the bottom of the gully On the edge of which the house w&s built, some one hundred ifeet below. In a little time a garden engine was procured, and a cordon of firemen and by-i standers passed buckets of water from a neighbour's w«ll on Jto j the/Are. Though nothing of the house was by this time standing, except the uprights,' the firemen wero .enabled by strenuous exertions to,save,an o|t-i house, one side of which had been consider-' ably burnt, — -Wellington Independent, June 25.