Extensive Fire at Invercargill.
• ! In VEBCAfcGiLi; Inarch 30. . The turnery and furniture factory of SfeSsrs Hector and Macdonald, situate in Tay-atreet, 'was totally destroyed by tird between iwo and three o'clock this morning. Mr Macdonald, so his. son staCfcS) .went -out W to«vtf dn Saturday* at which time the'faetory was closed. Macdonald, junior, says that the fire broke out near, the frontage to the street, but othere who ariived early 6n the scene .state that the 'conflagration began in the engine-house atthe back. Nothing of impqrfcanrte'was saved. TJie 'conflagration', owing to / ',tJSie.,'quap,tifcy of timber stored, was.. . very farming 1 , but fortunately. the wind was blowing from the,.;no.rihTvest^ ; and . : the buildings ijx the y jcinity escaped »
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 107, 1 April 1884, Page 2
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115Extensive Fire at Invercargill. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 107, 1 April 1884, Page 2
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