Destructive Fire at Auckland.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 36, 13 January 1885, Page 2

Destructive Fire at Auckland.

E_TIMATEIX.DAMAG#-BETWEEN^ J "414,000 and; tfuftooo. ? - ; •• .s.c _ FUBTEEB PARTICULARS. (UNIXSD PRESS ASSOCIAfIOJN.) Auckland, -tan.! 11. The origin Of Ihe fire is unknowp, the." workpAejA" - khocking off work at . o!olae£-' ctn, Saturday. The; watchman' states' that .the fire began hi. the iowatoreo'el _the Sash Factory, and ran through the : huiiding l?efore he could. ge;ton a hose. The Fire Brigade had eight headS'Qf hose and 'a water supply-* --.On the Outbreak Captain Staling, 5 qf ;;i thp,. 1 jjyheridan waf6l%' Sent Erisign Gihnore' in the.captahi'a gig to tender Superin-. tendentTHughea the seryioesjof tljie ship's' fire brigade for short' duty, which were jjlacUy accepted,'«• The ensign threw up*a rocket, and at the signal the Eroquo.s cutter came ashore' rath^J^utegyEunyi , Salsey, 25, pm%s,lW& $$' apparatus. Liherty men on shore also assjst*e_t in I getting out warps on, #je harquentine

• Frank Guy, which was aground at tha i wharf. To save her, her sails were tm- ' bent, and the rigging, topsides, and deck kept plied With water. A large quantity jof timberTand shingles in her vicinity .were.thrown into the harbor. They tdok'_?e, however, and felling into tha sea, became a floating mass of fire. The vessel was. however, saved. It was past midnight before the crisis of the fire wm over. Along and desperate Btraggteen. sued on the western side of th© block to save the Auckland Timber Company**. .feoto:cy, and-OT-°lte pre. yentan extension eastward which proved successful. ( Od the eastern side, .when v ;the.„4u_Jd»sd;:S»£Sasrfe men were exhausted, the Iroquois men re* ati-haty*}, defending that P° m J fill BJ>*clock~this morning, when the fire was well under control. They - left* for the populace, the splendid water supply,* the' wKol. of the timber industoes on the reclamation would probably hm 4 to wipea[d*lt. AAthe first out* break, when the Auckland gasworkg were in danger, wth. crowd kept away mg and an. explosion orthe feapometer. A -.umber p'f'pfeotfte |i to-mfe under ' absurd'- appreheMonSi''' ff-t j 'ottt their gito -ifearing 'ai gttsi O-plb-ifeßi* When a.' _a_Jion-.V-_et;ivo- Ift__db__ > was -blazing; in the, ' ;. C ? m l^-*^*-tfrV^ ,off "Point Rodney, Mv-4n_-j^-_Btanfci seeifjg m j mm^m^ i^wmb\rli^ was employed all tha mass of smouldering. dehri&_ extending over an acre of Anc-j_nd Timber Compaq, lose .63000in-tipiber destroyed-: wl__ch was insured in. the New Zealand OfiKe. The Timber' Com--pany had onjy £»W pffos_ibu# t M d .the j-nJiV plant, company represent a.met loss of .07000. Prdposalß-fofan 'adQitional _3000 wero . &fcw_ttded to to, and acceptances by Sydney insufcanca - c /i > t h^ e i?er.sfi;»tt^Q^-niirwhi-^ Mostot the oflficei ; hetj9i_-aS{ lines of reinsurance of risks of the Norwich Union and ,-Sftu.h Brilash; figures inconsequence oJLthe officesbeing closed on ;■ damage, mcludmg_wharlage paWy_un.t, ia