FIRES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2543, 8 March 1887, Page 2

FIRES.

.. (UKITED PEERS,A6SOCIATIOK. GisßOßKE,.Maroh7. A fire broke put this morning in the Albion Glub'Hotel stables, and spread to the"hotel and shop?adjoining, wtiohare now burning as for as .-Adrme', book seller's. Tke'New Zealand Loan and MercautOa 'buildings have'just caught. The office .of Messrs Graham, Pitt, end Bennett, on the opposite Bide or the street,-took fire, but was quickly putout. The total loss is estimated, at £BO,OOO. Insurances amount to £20,000. 1 • ' Later. ' Abnit 11 a.m.-the fire 'had' turned itself out,'acd nothing was' Standing but' tho walls of .the Loan and Mer'canvi'e.biiildings, which "will.' have to be. akan down. , Those-burnt out are:—Messrs C< %, l:oo f wnker; McLennan, jeweller Sea'le, tailor; Wilson, Albion Club IJo el;..Mjller, barber; Nasmith, workjitti I .jfcvelltr; Ward and Cresswell, solicitsti; ■De Latour, solicitor; the Un : on S.S. Co.; Loan and Meroan--tile Co.; Native Land Settlement Co.; Westrup;" coinraisaon agent; Ferris, h ;tive, Interpreter;, Berry Daniels, commission agent; and. Clarke, b tcher, on the up town side of - the street. The fire was checked .at Good's jeweller's'shop, which, with Adam's stationer's shop, was gutted. . \ Tip Day (Tuesday) ' Another fire broke-put at 11 o'clock' last night* which destroyed Stevenson's stables, and Winter & -Haigli's stables. March 7. ' A fire at 1 o'clock this, morning' destroyed William Smith's music store arid billiard-room., The premises were'ihsured in the South British for£lso, and the billiard table and musical instruments are supposed to be insured elsewhere. Everything was destroyed. Tlio origin of the fire is unknown. An inquest is suggested. Auckland, Maroh 7.' , .Yesterday afternoon, Panama House A wooden • building of 12 rooms in Lower Symoads'Street,. was destroyed by firo. Mr 0. P. Newcombe, who occupied the house, .left at 10 a.m., with his family for ohuroh, -and had not returned when the fire broke out. An examination showed the chimney of the kMeii was badly constructed, and may have caused the fire.' Several houses in the. vioinity of St Andrews High Sohool took fire, but the flames were soon quenched. The -firemen worked splendidly, and two of them.. George Bays .and .William Wait© sustained The insurances are not yet known. '