FIRE IN CUSTOMS – STREET

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 262, 9 May 1888, Page 3

FIRE IN CUSTOMS - STREET

Auckland, Ma> 4. Ai-.oi'T '1 o < lock tin- morning afne broke out in a building vi Customs stieot West, near the ioi>t of Nelson stieet. AMhorgh t ho Fug Utigade were quiekl} in attendance, (ho promises weir burned down. For ihe last few jears, up to ihieo months «igo, this shed hiis u-ed h\ Mi h .lickell, cicctncal engineei, tor ♦he puipo-es of an iion and bia^s found) \ Duvng the last few weeks iMt'^^i - Hunt and C'ai-.on li.i\e o< I'upii'd thus'ied Tin \ woic eu<, r .i^td e\ pel lnientinLf in <;old siunjr bv nu .tu^ of smelting .miifi'ious 01 e-. Foi this puipo-o tlioy ut>ed a »as eu^mo The fin naec-- weie in opruitioii until }e-.Teiday inoinin<^, when it wa.s disco\oinl ihat tliey would not .stand the heat, and consequently the, piojcct was abandoned. The engine was owned by the (Jas Company, and yesteidciv they cut oil the supply of g,is, as the engine wit no lou^ei" ie<iuiied. Mr John I»i^olow , shipbuildei, had the building on ii Ilmm* fiotn the Llarboui Boaid, it bfug elected on leelanned j;iound. Mi Billow's olliee was situated in the shed at the i car of the liunaee. The adjoining premises weie occupied by Moms O\ley as a coal and thewood yaid. Tlie.sc weie alno 'damaged by the me, but not dcs I i loyal. The fhe was disco%eied by Constable ('oughlin, who was on duty on the wharf. He tan along Queen-sticet, and gave the ahum liom the bell in the New Zealand Insuiance Company's Buildings. ■John DiaUin and one oi t.wo other men engaged .it the Oas \\ oik.s alt>o noticed the die and endcaoured to save some of the iittings. They are, howevei, unalile to throw any light on the oiigin oftheiiie. Mi Jickell is not at present in any wixy connected wi'jh (he building, being now in Sydney. Sergeant Kiely and a number of police were early in attendance at the fire.