TIMARU.
GREAT-EIRE.—TWENTY SIX HOUSES ~.. ~. -ft y DESTROYED. (Prom the Correspondent of the New Zealand . . ' . Advertiser.) . Tiinaru, Dec. 8,1.27 p.m. Yestebday afternoon at 3 o’clock a hre du^ai^&aihiahd: Munro’s premises,, and ? burnt furiously: before a strong-north wester until half-pastsix, destroying all the principal’ buildings of the town.
Amongst the rest may be named the premises of Mr Mimro, furniture warehouse; Knight, painter; Wood, saddler ;< Solomon, draper; Seymour, watch-maker : Erskin, grocer; Watkins, chemist; Clarkson and Turnbull, general store; Beldy, barber;: Butler, chemist; Horton and Belfield, Herald Office; Bilton, bookseller;. Byrne; private remdence ; Stubfasfand iKingi butcher’s shop and reisideuce; Morgan, baker ; ; Mountford, photographer; Melton; stables and residence; Eraser, butcher '; Pagziiisky, barber; M 4 Bae, Club Hotel; :; Stubbs and King, butcher’s shop No. 2; Post Office; felegraph ; Office; Bank of New Zealand. . .' • :
' No lives-have been lost as far as has yet been ascertained, but very little property has been saved.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 102, 14 December 1868, Page 299
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146TIMARU. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 102, 14 December 1868, Page 299
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