Fire at Eketahuna

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3540, 19 June 1890, Page 2

Fire at Eketahuna

LARGE STABLES DE&- - -^ EKETAHUNA HOTEL PARTLY - ■ •"'•'A BUBNEDDOWN. :.', ■.•■'>:.- : > : | ._[by temoraphJ ;,.;.; y.•,,;<" J; (FromlOur'Own Cofresnouden t)A■ > ~. A fire started in tie loft of son s stables last night; the hay fy■'• ; •:> ■ some means igniting. Mr.Thomson- V S': ■£■ says that when bo,left atlQp.m; 'tr- ;' everything was all right No one ;; v^ : was sleeping orithe premises at the ' : - time. It is. supposed that someone •• had got in, and by some means "set fire to the hay in the lott, Thewind : '<■ was blowing towards the Etetahuna ; v ■■"•' Hotel,and plenty of willing.hands ? ' got on the roof of the hotel with' 'fflk~ water, but were' soon driven'off. -S*' . . However, they kept the firaMown: -' '■"■>"■■ sufhciently to enable the people to i-/ remove everything out of the hotel,- •■= although a considerable: quantity of ' furniture was destroyed. It was soon. ■' seen the main, building could-.' notbesavod. Efforts were then made to save tlie.liall, and the front of this ' was cut out and, the bil iard- • fable carried out bodiiv. By this' time the Hall had caught lire and it ; was thought that it could not be saved, but several people gobontha- - roof, others inside, and managed|.tov..# ?■ save the building, although the side ■!# nearest the hotel was almost com- ' ,? ■ pletely burnt down. Everyone worked well.and orderly, although. a con-■■-«;'■■■■ piderable quantity of Jiquor was con*,- •■.•• ■ sumed. No one was injured.-Three men had locked themselves, in. their ■ rooms, in a druuken condition, and but for the timely help of Mr ' Clement would havo been burned to ■ death. He had to break open the ' doors, and drag the men out of the ... hotel by the hoels. .* A dog that was' ■ D B ! en m, up was burned to ashes, feter Thompson's stables were N not ■ insured,. He has lost all the harness .<<hjd| ™d. The hotelwas insured for ■'srf £IOOO, and the furniture for Mi).; Ihe office is not known. The new addition to the hotel was not insured. ' ' - Anotlel ' Wl *k would.have seen it completed. The contractor's price , ™ £250. The Eketahuna constable |3 away iu Wellington, and one is badly wanted here, there being so [ many drunks about the town,