FIRE GERALDINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1378, 13 August 1885, Page 3

FIRE GERALDINE.

The people Geraldine were awakened about two o’clock on Tuesday morning by an alarm/ 0 f g re , and by the bright glar3 the sce^ e was snon discovered—the premises as (lie Young Men’s Club—but it was found that the tire had got such ahold of tl/ ]e building as to defy all efforts to save if ( notwithstanding the large number o| willing hands and a plentiful supply of l water. Attached to the building in tybich the fire commenced was another three rooms, occupied by Mr A. Hosljj DB( gaddler. The fire was not long in* making its way through the partition wall, and Mr Hoskins and his family jg a d some difficulty in making their escape. t They were unable to save anything, I They were the first to discover the fira but it had then got a strong hold of the .adjoining building. Next to Mr Hoskitjg’ B hop, and about six feet from it, a /two-roomed building, which was Bavedjby dint of bard work on the part of th«L e w bo had assembled. Had this taken g re nothing could have saved Mr ,J. B&ughton's tailor’s shop and dwelling hotHje, from which the furniture was reM° v /ed, Mr Stonehouse’s dwelling house, on /the opposite side of the bnildines "townt, had a narrow escape, and was only * av ied through a fortunate change in the wind that was blowing at the time, w Aich enabled those present to keep the en jd of the house well wet with water. The Young Men’s Club lose the whole 9rt their property, consisting of furniture, i}Ookß,and requisitesin connection with their Amusements, etc., the whole being valued feX about £2O. Hoskins loses everything, /with the exception of one or two small f articles which were got out through the i windows. The buddings destroyed were { owned by Mr Charles Pye, of Fairlio / Creek, and were insured—the Young Men’s Club for £l5O, and Hoskins’ shop i for £SO, both in the New Zdßnd Insurt Mice Company’s offices. furni- | lure, stock and effects are ; Jflßd in the | Livcrpot'l and London and Insur- ■ ance Comp my for £SO. fire oriJ ginated is a mystery at i Young fk Men’s Club was ten np'dock the night all

safe, by some of the members. Great praise is due to those who worked so energetically to save the adjoining buildings—more could hardly have been done had a fire brigade been present.