DISASTROUS FIRE IN DUNEDIN.
k About half past ten o'clock on Friday night last a fire' ! broke opt JB Kenny j.44 Williams' Commercial Sale yards, Rattray - street, and in the very beart of the city* We have not learned who made the discovery, but there was delay in giving the alarm, and causing the fire-bell to be rung. The firemen went to work with a will, but did not succeed in getting the flames extinguished till after miHnight, by which time the following primeses vere either wholly or partially destroyed:— Commercial Sale Yard. George Dowse, Saddler. George Duncan's Flour Store. Paton, Watchmaker. J. anil W. M'Laren, Tailors. Levy, Pawnbroker. "W" H. Hatch, Bootmaker. Levy and Hatch's were one-storey buildings, and were pulled down by order of the jjommissioner of Police, to arrest the progress of the flames. Besides the shopkeepers enumerated above the following are more or less losers by removal of stock from premises, water, &c. M. Gottschalk, Tobacconist. Barron! Grant and Co. Campbell, Crown Hotel. C, Johnson, Roxburgh House, Draper. And to the above must be a'lded the names of many shopkeepers is Princes st., and Arcade, who partly removed their stocks when the fire was at its height. The origin of the misfortune is unknown. —" Otago News."
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Dunstan Times, Issue 326, 24 July 1868, Page 3
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