FIRE AT AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3640, 22 October 1874, Page 3

FIRE AT AUCKLAND.

[By Telegraph.]

Auckland, October 22. A fire broke out at four.o’clock this morning and burned down a block of buildings at the junction of Wakefield street with Queen and .Rutland streets. It commenced in' Kernsiey’s earthenware shop. Thiee small dwelling houses in • Jutland street rapidly caught, the inmates barely escaping in their night-dresses. The Charlemout Hotel, a bripk building in Wakefield street, next caught and. rapidly succumbed. There was a great scarcity of water, which rendered the efforts of the Fire Brigade unavailing. A two-sterey building, occupied by Woodward, baker, and a dressmaker, and the adjoining building of wood, occupied by Sandall, butch" er, next caught. By this time a copiou* supply of water was procured, and although the fire had obtained a strong hold of tue building it was extinguished through the efforts of the brigade.’ The insurances, so far as ascertained, are Kernsley’a stock and furniture, •L' 50, in the Victoria Company; the Charlemcmt Hotel 1.600, in the .Norwich Union ; and Sandall’s L 250, in the National. A good deal of property was car ried out. The fire originated in a shed at the rear of Kernsley’s premises Kernsley was burned out a year ago at Riverhead.