EXTENSIVE FIRE IN AUCKLAND.
[By Electric Telegraph.] Auckland, May 10. A large fire was discovered in Queen street at two o’clock this morning in a small unoccupied house at the rear of a wooden block of shops at tbe corner of Victoria street and Queen street, opposite the Greyhound Hotel. The fire spread with great rapidity, destroying the following premises in Queen street:—Cook’s furniture shop, stock insured in the Norwich Union forLIOO; Close Bros., grocers, insurance on stoek LI,000; Payne, watchmaker ; Sims, hair-dresser ; Fijian fruit-house (unoccupied); Welsmen, chemist, stock insured for L 45 0; Bennett, draper; Turrell’s music shop, stock insured for L 450. In Victoria street, Blue Post dining-rooms, insured for LSOO. The fire was stopped by Montague's brick building, which is damaged by the intense heat. The losses of insurance companies, so far as yet ascertained, are—New Zealand, L 1,750 ; Victoria, L 750; Imperial, L 50 0; Norwich Union, L6OO. Tbe origin of \£he fire is unknown, but tbe circumstances are very suspicious.
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Evening Star, Issue 4119, 10 May 1876, Page 3
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165EXTENSIVE FIRE IN AUCKLAND. Evening Star, Issue 4119, 10 May 1876, Page 3
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