SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AT AUCKLAND.
(eer tooted press association.) I Auckland, June 25. A fire broke out at Heaketh and I Aitken's produce store, Durham Street, at 1 o'clock this morning, bnt it was got under by tbe Fire Brigade. The' stock on the top story, consisted of flax, hay, "grass seed,' oases, hogsheads, &o. Insurances— On building £400 in the South British ; on stock, jEIoO in South British. The insui'ance covers the loss, la the basement story, T. and S. Iforrin had £2000 worth of casks and cases of ironmongery stored, which was insured f >v £1500 in the Now Zealand Insurance Company. This is parHy damaged by water, but owing to the darkness to what extent is not known. As the fire oilginated in the flax section, it is supposed that it had heated. Later. The losses by the fire at Hesketh and ■ Aitken's store in Durham Street, are wholly covered by insurance. The fire is supposed to hove originated by spontaneous combustion in a bale of flax.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10234, 26 June 1883, Page 2
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169SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION AT AUCKLAND. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10234, 26 June 1883, Page 2
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