FIRE AT PAPAKAIO.

Evening Star, Issue 4088, 3 April 1876, Page 2

FIRE AT PAPAKAIO.

Between twelve o’clock on- Thursday night, and one o’clock on' Friday morning, 80th nit., the flour.mill at Fapakaio, built and lately owned by MessreG. an<LJ..Ori, was burned to the ground, ' ever being saved. Some few wiSSSagpg ib mill and other property in theUSiugn 4 estate of Messrs G. and J. Oxt was boKK y the trustees to Mr Stewart Richteond|j|H i 0 purposed going into the milling<^^ti^, x Since the purchase he has been residing in a cottage adjoining the mill, and getting every* thing inside the mill into order for an early start; indeed operations were so far advanced, that steam was got up On Thursday. About twelve o’clock on Thursday bight Mi^DrS!aw,^hjri i ssideß"j3ltwe' to the mill noticed flames issuing from the roof of the building, and at once gave the alarm. Mr Richmond and all the neighborswere roused* Imt of the building, which wap. of wood, that nothing whatever, could Wkaved*_and in an hour or two. all. shat remained of the null yaa a heap of blackened remains of the engine, 'wsidek bii the inachinery. there was a..<]im^^ t pf in the hull. The property was msmred Tor v L7OO in the Victoria. Insttf and LSOO in the New Zealand. ~We underitand that Mrßichmond will sufferer to the extent of LISO. No reason Whatever can.' be. assigned for the' Cause of the fire, except that a fire was ‘ left’ : in ■ the engine dn day night which ctecuihstancb tends to f iudicate the probable origin of the configuration;— ‘ N. O. *110168.’ “