The Kopura Fire.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 232, 3 September 1883, Page 3

The Kopura Fire.

LATER PARTICULARS. (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, August 31. It has transpired that, although there was £6000 insnrance on the Te Te Kopura mill, none, of it extends over the property destroyed this morning* - . No intelligible account has yet come to hand of the fire. The following message reached Superintendant Thomson this /afternoon :— "The fire originated m the stokehole o» the little mill at 9 o'clock last night. A fierce wind was blowing at the time from the east ; bat heavy rain set m with the change of wind to the north-west: The large mill was saved." The fire raged all ni«ht, and the large fawmills and the station were fliyed almost miraculously by the great exertions of the station people, ably assisted by men from Ara* pawa, Nangawhare, Dargaville, aud other places. The cause of the fire ;s believed to be purely accidental. Members ot the firm state « be loss is exaggerated, and the only machinery destroyed was a planing machine worth i#ooo. The New Zealand Company bad £8000, the National £1500, and the» r South British £1500 on the mill, but these 'policies are said not to extend to the portion- of property destroyed.' 5 The mill itself is one of the largest m the colony, turning out 150,000ft;6f sawn material weekly. It is known there was an -immense stock of .timber on -hand* -and the inference is that nearly the whole of tbi3 has been ' destroyed. The South British had £25 { -ty on the officeß, and £375 oh Ptores. The goods m the latter are said to be saved. The National had a similar, amount, and the. New Zealand £800. The timber m the yards burnt iB said to be wholly uninsured."

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