[BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1707, 14 June 1883, Page 2

[BY TELEGRA PH . -PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Tuesday.

A five broke out in the new railway goods-shed at about half-past eight o'clock tins evening. It was completely destroyed in le->s than an hour. It was full of goods, a considerable poition of the ciigo of the Westnit j ath. and the whole ot the goods per the Tarawera, which came in this morning, having been stored in it. No details are at present known. It is a question whether, as the goods were being stoied fiom shipboard, the msiuance lisks are at an end. The shed had only been taken over from the contractors a week or ten days ago. There wa* no water available for a long time, as the shed was on the reclaimed ground. Thousands of people \\ eie on the scene of the fire. Later telegiams give the following additional particulais : — The size of the burnt shed was 450 feet in length, and it had cost nearly £3000. Two night watchmen weie on duty, one of whom was specially told off to watch this and another import shed. He had gone lound at a quarter past 8, trying all doors., and nothing appeared to be wrong. Within less than half-an-hour afterwards the fiieboll rang. All the goods per the Tarawera, a quantity by the Wakatipu, and a few packages by the Westmcath tVere in it. Eleven railway trucks, loaded, were in the shed. Nothing at all was saved. A large number of the leading importcis are losers. A 16-horse-power gas engine, intended to drive the printing and electric light niacliineiy m the Daily Tuna oflice, was burnt. One impoiter of jewellery had goods to the value of £5000 in the shed. Nothing is known yet qs tq the oiigin of the tire. It is believed tho loss to insurance companies will be extremely little, but that it will fall on owners.