A BIG FIRE IN AUCKLAND.
[PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, March 1.
A fire broke out at 8.50 to-night in the fino new produce stores of the Loan and Mercantile Co. in Quay-street, ' which were completely guttsd, the fire I brigade being unable to do more thin confine the fire to the building. The walls are standing. Coustable Harvey first siw the firo, which was in a bala of wool, through a window at the eastern ond of the building. Inder, a alerk, was in the clerks' room in the buildiDg at tho timi of the outbreak making up his books, and saw a fire at, the back of the store. He rushed into ihe street, saving most of the ledgers. The buildiug<> are insured for £4OOO, and the produce, estimitud at .£20,000, was also covered—.ill in the Naw Z;aland. The origin of the fire is unknown.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 4, 2 March 1900, Page 2
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146A BIG FIRE IN AUCKLAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 4, 2 March 1900, Page 2
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