THE INVERCARGILL FIRE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6509, 6 January 1882, Page 5

THE INVERCARGILL FIRE.

[Pbb Pbbbs Association.] INVKROABGILL, Jak. 6. By 1.80 this morning the fire was got under sufficiently to ensure the safety of the White Swan Hotel, whioh several times was in imminent danger. Tho wooden buildings between it and lianan's Temple of Boienoe wero cleared to a large extent of their contents, and partly demolished, before the flames crossed to tho roof of tho Temple, a substantial brisk structure Tho insurances are as follow : North British- £I4OO (a portion of whioh is re-insured), diatributed as follows :—£looo on Roche's stock, and £4OO on Hunan's Templo of Soienoo. Hanseatio—£l6o on Sogers' stobk. Transatlantic—£Boo on Hibernian Hotel. Colonial—£7oo on stook and furniture of the Hibernian; £3OO on Eooho's stook ; £IOOO on tho Temple of Soienoo ; and £l6O on Baeside's building j total, £2160. Northern—£l6o on Baeside's shop. Liverpool, London and Globe—£2oo on the Hibernian Hotel; £IOO on Campbell's butchery ; £BOO on Mrs Wilson's stook and building. New Zealand—£looo on Booho's building and stook j £BOO on Hanan's stook; and £6OO on Brown's (draper) stock; total, £IBOO, of whioh £BOO it re-insured in the Colonial. South British—£l6o on Booho's building. Total insurances so far as known, £7200.