DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 18 June 1883, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

(Fiom N Z Times) Just is. peoplo v/oio prepaung to go to church, it $43 yesterday o\oiling, md expecting to heat the usut! buuuhoiis fiom t)io steeples of thin place 1 } of ivor ship, they weio si t| led by tho notes of tho firtlek Tljeio was no luuble m asceituiiiiiig tho inoahtj, foi 1 he whole of the sky uui Te AlO was one mass of ruddy coloi. mdicaiing that Ihe ilaim had not been given until tho fne '<ad got a film hold. A few minutes sufficed for the collection of an immense I tionJ, probably some 7000 or 8000 pei buns Even beloro iho first hose reel of iho Municipal'Fne Bugade amtod, the lpproachps ip J Abe) pipith ifreet, wlnre Ihe fjia Ind btoLei) out, were ajnnsfc completely blocked Theio wag not a little difnculty in obtaining details la*t uiuht, bu' the following will be found coiroct —Mi 1 Lawrence, the ownoi aid occupiu of UpUu House, a two stoned, nine roomed dwelling, on the northern iide of Abel Smith street, about two vhains below Uppei Willis street, had, togetltoi \vith lu's f umly, 1 ikeii tea 111 the lltcW 'pfjtVtSop the liouis'of 4 and 5 i'clocli, after which' lllby went into the Hitting 100 m ra ihe fiont pi|t of the houso At a littlo after 5 30 one of them hid'occasion to open iho door of this icon/, when the ptfskgo has found to bd full of Tho opening of tho - kitchsn.dooi revealed the fact that ihe whole of that apartmont was abhze The flames spread with exiuoidinary tapidity. md (he portion of ihe contents that could bo saved wa"s a few pieces of fuiiuturp from (he sitting loom. The flames weie, as a'matlei of copise, obsei ved 'by passers by, the male portion of nhon] what f toißjauco t they could! and Vlun dmeirback by heat "and unioke, cjeatlhe liouses. Abouilitiiia'JiHw'ilie.glai.l' 'lufb obsonVd from Wliul/tthoC) theaUiji w *ali minutes latei 'that liiisSwas taken up" by

(.lie |e Ap bell, l afilr which fhoso in otlioi fmrls quickly,followed suit fhmes'had Bpieiul (jo Graoe t Oolfpg|,Tifive loomed building on tile and occupied by OnDMiin Short, of'(ho ketch pouiet A njeiij conspicuous among whom wereaboiifhalfadpffln mombeu.of tho Salvage Corps and one 01 two fuemoii who could do nolhuig until llio Miwalof out thb' J wlnile ,l of\tlio contents in admiuble oidoi, theie be ng no lnmyipg and no broiking to speak if When -itlnstllio Bii«ide aimed on the sumo, Upton House was 11 mass of llatnes, mid tltcio to no chance of sivm* Unco Cottage.«A most vflwluus dehy look plate 111 bififging the waterno bcai, ut fust connecting too miuij liososr with tlio small man,)and, when tins oiroi had been Goriected, through liana 111 tho hose For a tune it seomod a<nf Wooilfoit by Mr I'rpiiac, and udjoiimi" GijkJo Cotlasc, 1 nouldalso bej burnt down, fowl 1 at one time U was actually alight, m evontu illy , it esopod with a severe Rcorchfng, Up I lon House wns bLmt to,tbe Ground, uul m\j a small portion orllib* front of (jinco I Cottage has beon left standing A small house in theiearVif thoso, owned b) Mrs | Mears, also caught, but the dinngo is ttiflmg, Tho ongm of the,lire is not known, but MrLiwronce states tint when bo Ml the kltlben Cho'g'is'uas lulned low, but tlieie was a fire burning, md on ibe leaith bcfoio it lay n .]iuntity of wood, winch hid been put thoie to dry 111 leidinoas fur lighting tho fire next mnru ing It is piobable that tins wood caught fire, and thus soreid ibe llama Ciptam and Mrs Short Wbflth Absent fioni Wellington, hut then family occupied Ibe house leienul to abo\e Tlio lotil lossu Diuhably LIOOO, Thejfollowing lie ibe insuiances:—MrLawionce, LiOO in tho National on the building, and L 250 in llie South UnliJl, nil tlio tiirniiuro ; Oiplain Slioit, L 250 in thoiSi>u\h Biitisb on the building It is nut known wluthe ibo fumitmc was insuicd 01 not Mi Piouso h 1-. 1 policy of Lsoo|Oii house anil furmnue in 1110 South Biilibb Mrs Mkiia house is insmcd for LIOO, wo behe% e, 111 the N 1 101 al ( A swill pro| or lion of this sum will proie siifbciuit to covoi the less Wo ire not uHhin that Mi Laiuonco