INVERCARGILL.
This day.
A fire broke out in the stables attached to the Carriers Arms Hotel, Dee Street, at 3 o'clock this morning. The flames rapidly spread to the hotel, which was an old wooden building, and was soon destroyed, together with another range of stables and a building adjacent, formerly used as a butchers shop. Very little furuiture or stock were saved, and the boarders in the hotel had a narrow escape. The steam fire engine prevented a spread of the fire. The hotel was occupied by John Hughes, and the other building destroyed belonged to J. Mitchell, who is now absent in Scotland. Four horses were burnt in the stables, two belonging to a cabman named Hugh Dudley, who was lately drowned, and two to a man named Brown. Insurances on the Hotel amount to £800 in the London, Lancashire, and Globe offices, and the stock and furniture are insured for £250 in the New Zealand, and for £350 in the Colonial offices. The stables are covered by £200 in the Norwich Union. The insurances are £1700.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5211, 29 September 1885, Page 2
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179INVERCARGILL. Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5211, 29 September 1885, Page 2
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