A Big Fire.
FOUR HUNDRED BALES OF
HEMP DESTROYED.
COVERED BY INSURANCE, ft
Yesterday the store on the Moytoa ' J Road next the Ferry Reserve, In which were stored a large number of bales of hemp, was totally destroyed by fire. The steamer Queen of the South was at the wharf, and the carters were jfl taking the hemp from this store fo»^ shipment, and bad about eighty bales on the wharf by dinner time. Messrs King and Baker had just dispatched a dray load away at a little after halfpast eleven and had shut the store up till after dinner, when they had hardly reached the corner of Main-street when King called out that the store was on fire. The men rushed back and on opening the door the flames ran along the tops of the bales and out at the door, so that the store looked a sea of fire. It was impossible to do anything but watch it burn. The store had close on 500 bales of well-dressed hemp stored therein belonging to Messrs A. S. Patterson & Co., of Wellington, who, it is stated, has the whole covered by insuranc^ J It was this firm's intention to ha \fe shipped the hemp away by a vessel . now loading in Blenheim, and it wai the first instalment that was being sent away yesterday.
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Manawatu Herald, 30 December 1897, Page 2
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225A Big Fire. Manawatu Herald, 30 December 1897, Page 2
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