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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2536, 28 February 1887, Page 3

direotod hia men, seemed to be very more impervious to heat' than his clothes wore, for when lie came to the ground it was discovored that certain portions of his garments had suffered woefully. He, with Seamen Ashmoro and Doolan, led the way to the roof. When.the lire ; was- practically, out, ..find.the and' marines ! sfajfjei-. homeward, the 'spectators'' chtoed;ihem to the cliee'rs ,' % -liiitt ! t&nks.wer^ iiamkV , Mrtogtol ; ''diS' ttngoiabed himself '■ by •remaining,.'On .'the brick wall "when all but'he had '; fled," find keeping the water "on-to "the flames. :."" Seaman Wallace, A.8., one of the ' most prominent of the Nelson contingent, got his legs soveroly burnt while on the roof. ' '' '-• We understand that it is.proposed-to recognise, the services'' of the Nelson men in somo suitable nnd substantial ;: manner, and a meeting will probably be held to.-day to consider the preliminaries. Such a movement would, we are certain bo heartily- supported. One result of tho'lire will be to .'deprive a large number of people of employment. About,.ono hundred persons - were employed in ' Messrs ' Thompson and Shannon's -factory, and it will be some time beforo they are started again. A numborof machines worosaved from tho factory, but it will be ioipossiblo to start work again at o'ico. " The buildings totally- destroyed aro m follow:—H, Huxley's tailor's shop; Barraud- and Son's' chemist's shop j Laeryoipd. CampbeH'a--nnctiori mart; T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co'b auction mart (and Maginnity's 'wiho and spirit cellar)yf Thompson Shannon &. 06,, soft goods warehouse and factory. Those wrecked are—Buckley Stafford, and Barton, Holicilors' offices, and Clarke's boarding house, J. Parker "k Co-'s warehouse was greatly damaged also Edwards and Green's, as wero the roof, windows, and stook. on the top .floor of Johnston's bonded store, The original cause of the tire is at present a mystery. At the rear of Mr Huxley's shop was a semi-detached building hired by Mr Orr, of the City Buffet, as a boarding-house. Here, it appears, people slept, and there wero four there on Saturday night, named ': Palmer, Harding, Jackson, and another, The Times in a leading article this nibruing states:—" Within twenty-four hours no fewer than three fires occurred in this city, and in three different wards. First three cottages were buraed to the ground in Te Aro; then a building, in'-. Thorndon met with a like fate; and lastly came the most dissstrous conflagration with which this city has been visited sinco the •Opera House firo, and perhaps tho . destructive, aa to the valuo of the • property' consumed- that has yet befallen Wellington. The groat fire of yesterday morning is a most severe and doplorablo .public calamity." Mr Huxley states that he loft his Bhop"at a quartor to 10 on Saturday Uight, at which .tiojo, he says, every|ffiing was safe-lights out, and doors ™ckod and bplted. Tho aggregato losses were slated 'during the day at' L 150.000, and the ■insurance Companies at L 78,000, It •18-estimatod howevor that-they aro con-] slderably over the mark.