GREAT FIRE IN NAPIER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1528, 21 December 1886, Page 4

GREAT FIRE IN NAPIER.

The moßt destructive fire which lias ever occurred in Napier, broke oot on Saturday morning, in .Tennyson .Street. The fire alarm-rang !*botit 10 o'clock, arid news quickly spread that the prjmisep of Messrs Bmner and Liddle, auctioneers, and insurance agents, were in flames. The Fire Brigade were on the spot in an JDcredibly short space of time, but still the/:fire})i))ad Jgot ,a good'hold of, the building, which wab burning fiercely. Tbehosenas promptly run out, but the water and fire then spread ovet. £n area jjoj; ;two to spread its progressing fruitless. 'lt'tfas nearly noou ( before the fire had> worked itself our, and even long; after ibat hour flames were still to be been here and there .Thejtiremen worked like TrojaW !Tbe ~dani»ge is. estimated.; at frornifiiQ^bQp.tp, £60 3 QOO. ~The,foll.6,wir>g offices i,~»Vd : ;pf ere deat/.oyed street;.— Telegraph, ipewapapfcr office ; auction room ; Sheath, Balicit.oi'B' 'office:; Lee,-;BoiicifoiV office deputy assignee'* office ; .Sainsbuiiy and Hogan's o!d .office'? Algar,; commission agent; Wildirig and Co. j timber merchants office; commission'' t eg<nt y .tailor ; Saiusbury aod ii.ew offices;; Nen), photographer 1 ; Hrraid,'newspaper.,office| ; Masonic Ball; VVellu' Bmitby ; Evans, ■nddler; Eabns.and^Co.,., sheep dip Jey and" Co?b miction, mart; Fitzheard (late fish* aiipp); Nic|iolsQ,n'B fcurnituie warehouse ; jeusep.jj jeweller; Lessong, surveyor; Levi, talon ; Gurnhtm (late), The following premises were daajagea* ;~*Worth'* ■ boot -fibop;- White's fancy goods:* MeGill ;aod Campbell, drapers ; -Wtsst, greßn grocer ; Senrle, milliner; Evening Nets office; N. WilHarrt t hqusejlelcj« au>r.;.JSational 1n- ,•,■■.<■■ .