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“The Press” In 1866

March 7 DUNEDIN FlRE.—After several months’ freedom from fire, our citizens were, about eleven o’clock last night, startled by the alarm bell, and a large number of them turned out to watch, or to try to check, a fire which had commenced in Maclaggan street, and which very speedily swept over a large extent of ground, destroying two hotels and a boarding house, and fully thirty dwel-ling-houses or other premises—all, of course, of wood. The Caledonian boarding-house, which was kept by Mr. T. Bailey, stood on the westerly side of Maclaggan street, about midway between the Scandinavian hotel, and the Melbourne hotel, which was higher up the street. It was in the Caledonian that the fire

commenced. Certainly, the flames came first from the back of the house; and we have heard two stories explaining its origin, one being that a light was accidentally dropped into some vessel filled with grease or fat in the kitchen, and the other, that it commenced in one of the bed-rooms. The first blaze must have been very strong, for by the time those roused by the fire-bell arrived—though it was so promptly rung as to be the first warning even to many residing near—the house was almost wrapped in fire. On every previous occasion of a like nature here, there has been great cause for thankfulness that there has been no wind. Last evening, there was nearly a gale from the north-east, which became the more dangerous from compression, as it were, in the gully in which the street lies.

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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 14

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“The Press” In 1866 Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 14

“The Press” In 1866 Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 14

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