TWO SHOPS AND DWELLINGS DESTROYED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 296, 5 September 1888, Page 3

TWO SHOPS AND DWELLINGS DESTROYED.

Br/n\ kk> one and two o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out on the l\emuer a Lload. Ib proved to be in a hhop and dwelling situated between Orakei Road and Green Lane. It was occupied by Messrs Trubshaw Brothers as a pio'luce store. They also resided on the piemise>% The store is next to the Public Hull, and as there was no means of checking the progress of the Hames the fire extended to the adjacent >shop and dwelling which was in the occupation of Mr William Adcoek, who curried on butinebh as, a butcher. Both buildings, together with a large stoic 50 \ 40 \\hich -was attached to Tiubsha>v's> premises, were totally destroyed. The tiie originated in Trubshaw's promises,™ hich were two-storied and consisted of a shop and five-roomed dwelling-house. Mr John Trubshaw b bates that he ictired to bed the previous night at 11 o'clock. Before doing so ho struck a match in the hhop to light hi? candle. He cannot now say whether or not he threw the match down. He at once went to bed, and slept until about) one o'clock a.m., when he was awakened by a faense of suffocation He at once sprang out of bed. and discovered that a lire was raging in the shop beneath. As escape by mean', of the staircase was cut off by the tire, he had to get out by means ot a back window. From this he on to the verandah and thus 5 reached the road. Mr Adeock's building consisted of a shop and eight dwelling rooms-. This was demoHshed so quickly that onl\ a small portion ot the furniture was wived.

INSURANCES. Messrs Trnb&luiw'-i premises verc insured for £300 in the New Zealand Company in favour of the owner Mrs Trubshaw, mother of the firm. Messrs Trubshaw had the stock insured for C4OO in the same office. They estimate their loos tb exceed insurance by about .€6O, while the building: was worth ,Cl5O more than the amount for which it was insured. Their furniture, valued at £20, was uninsvued. Mr Ad cock's shop and dwelling were insured in the New Zealand Company for C 350. lie estimates it to have been worth fully ,C 100 more. His furniture, valued at £100, was not covered by any insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown.