Great Fire at Hastings.
A fire broke out in Roach's drapery shop, Hastings, at 2.80 on Thursday morning, and spread till the whole of the block in which the shop was situated, and also the opposite block, were destroyed. Twenty-two buildings were consumed. The damage is estimated at £50,000. The fire at Hastings is in proportion to the size of the town a tremendous affair, fully half (the more \alnablfi half) being destroyed. Th >re is absolutely no salvage, and the area on which once stood a largblock of buildings now (to use an apt. expression of a bystander) • Looks like a forest clearing,' nothing ap pearing above the dead lev^l of the ground except the chimneys.
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Manawatu Herald, 11 February 1893, Page 2
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117Great Fire at Hastings. Manawatu Herald, 11 February 1893, Page 2
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