Enormous Fire at Gisborne

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 103, 8 March 1887, Page 2

Enormous Fire at Gisborne

DAMAGE ESTIMATE!) AT £80,000. (PBE UNITED PRTSB ASSOCIATION ) ; . : Gmbobs^ Alnrt'h 7. . A fire broke out this morning- in the stabler of the Albion Club Hotel, aud spread to the hotels and shops adjoining. The Sew Zealand Loan and Mercautil© building was for a tuno thought to be, _ eato, it boinj; bmlt of bnok &ivi concrete* ' but the wind blowing directly on to the woodwork of the doors aud windows, it caught, aud tho fir© made a clean sweep through the buiMinjjs, . catching Clarke'?.) butcher shop, in which bwldin™ was situated the office of the Native Laud Settlement Company. „ T. he: whole of the goods were gotout of the shops in Nasnuth's buildings, Benyfa, Daniel's, '■ and • the Loauiaud Jklen^ntile frout. offices, but> 4000 sacks of grass. seed in the store at the back were < totally destroyed. Tko fire caught the mass. of furniture, merchandise* grass seed, anTl other goods that had boenremoYed froin' the rarions places into the road opposite Graham, Pitt, and Bennett's otfieea. The jyerandah of their building took fire trpin.. the heat across the street, «nd from the jnass, -of Btufi burning in the roadway, But was 6zli&« guished before iiuch damage was done.Large quantities of water and wet blankets were applied to ttt&Bank of New South . Wales and, Dipkaon'§ Hotel, and, prevented them teking fire. ' About Itthe fire had burned itself out, and nothing^ was standing but/tbe : M£H& of the lioan and Mercantile buildings, which, will hare to be taken down, t; , - r • ; v Those burnt^ out are .'—Messrs Coffy, bootmaker ; McLenndh, jeweller ; Miller, barber; Nasmith, Irojking jeweller; Searle, tailor; Wflson, Albion 'dub Etatel ; ; Ward and Gresswell, solicitorsi , De Latour, solicitor ; the Union S.B. Go. ;' ! Loan' and Mercantile Co;;; Native; Land i Settlement Co. ; Westrup^i oominission agent ; Ferns, Native interpreter ; Berry ; Daniels,' coihmisHion agent ; • Clarice^ butcher, oh the up town side of the stittetr. •; The fire was checked at Goods' jeweller's shop, which, with. .Adams' stationer's The iptal estimated damage is about £30,000. The iHsurances are :— l»Ji»mx, - £8000; Norwich Uaion, £1400; Imperial, £300; Bquitablep £1100; Victoriiv ' £559; New Zealand, £10,600; Colonial, £600; Union; £750; North British, £1550; United,-£2SOVi !-U : 5 .- . ..-:■< iV. \ : . ■■,■■■ fi ThiaPay^ ?\ Another f|r«, at 11 p.mv .destroyed Stevenson's stables and Winter and Hair's ohaHibers. The .fire was got under at midnight. \^'V ; ' : •-••>^'''-r-"---^< ■■ ■.■ ■■■ ■■