FIRE IN GEORGE STREET, DUNEDIN.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 204, 24 January 1873, Page 6

FIRE IN GEORGE STREET, DUNEDIN.

At a quarter past five on the morning of the 14th. instant, a fire broke out' on the premises of Mr. Thomas George, l lithographer, George street, four j doors from the Octagon, and fanned by i the strong north-westerly wind that blew the greater portion of the time during which it raged, spread with alarming rapidity, resulting in the total destruction of two shops and a dwelling house on the one side, and the partial" burning,:and: complete gutting of three shops on the other side of the street. The losses and amount of insurances are thus estimated : —Mr. George, premises and stO'*k totally consumed, values his stock at over £4OO ; had a policy of insurance on it in the Royal for £250; policy expiring March 30th next; premises owned by I\!i\ Gilchrist, and insured.—Robson, tailor, uninsured.—Mr. Robson was not at home when the fire broke out, and his family and the lodger in the house, as has been stated, were unable to save anything. Mr. Robson's loss is £2OO, and he is uninsured. This is the second time he has lost by fire in the same-locality. One of his lodgers, a man named Young, who intended to take out his passage for England to-day, not only lost his effects, but also a sum of money which he had placed in one of his coats. The premises, the property of Mr. Gilchrist, together with those occupied by Mir. George, were . insured in the Victoria office for £250. Gilchrist, painter.—Value of stock in October last, £2,100, and since increased to the extent of £6OO, insured in the Royal for £2OO, and for £4OO in the Vic' 1 toria ; building owned by himself, uninsured. Carroll, Hibernian Hotel, suffers considerably by the too hasty removal of his stock and furniture.—John Coventry, tinsmith, has a policy of £2OO in the New Zealand office, on the buildings occupied by himself and Mrs. Algie ; but his stock, which was greatly damaged, is uninsured. Mrs. Algie's loss is considered to be covered by a policy of insurance for £125 in the Royal.—Bacon, bootmaker adjoining Mrs. Algie's estimates the damage to his stock at £25, and was uninsured. The shop belongs to Mr. Cun« ningham, Tokomairiro.-—George Munro, of the monumental works, adjoining George s premises, had a quantity of marble stones broken and otherwise injured, but does not state his loss.

Death from Lockjaw.—A man nameii Benjamin. Louth, employed at Omarama, died on Friday last of idiopathic tetanus* He had been live days suffering from the seizure, which, we are informed, resulted from catching cold. He was attended by Dr. Wait. Deceased was 33 years of age, and was interred on Sunday in the Oamaru Cemetery. , A Californian paper reports that an hotel chambermaid laid aside her broom a few days ago, and, on calling for a Settlement, told her employer she had been dabbling in stocks for a year or more, and had somethiug more than 200,000 dollars as a result. - Miss Jane Barsack, of Crete, Me., recently woke up in the morning and found a three-foot rattlesnake in her bed. She got up with alacrity.