Latest Particulars. Dunedin, Last Night.

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

Latest Particulars. Dunedin, Last Night.

By the time the Fire Biigade arrived the flames had a hold of the building, audit was impossible to s>ave anything. After some delay, there being a scarcity of water, two jets were brought to bear on the north end of the burning building, in the hope of saving a quantity of valuable jewellery there. The effoits of the brigade, however, proved Jutile, and the whole length of the building was one sea ot flame 13Q yards long. The scene at this stage was grand. The main portion of the southern half of the building fell in with a crash and the flames shot higher and higher into the air, lighting the houses on the heights of Mornington, throwing out in bold relief the outlines of many of the larger buildings in Bond and Princes streets, and lighting up a considerable extent of the harbour. The grandeur of the scene was impressive. Meantime the firemen worked energetically, and wei c assisted by onlookers in pumping water fron-} the bay, but all their efforts could not stay the progress of the devouring element, and before 10 o'clock the shed was a heap of burning ruins. The shed was well rilled with meachandise of all descriptions including tqbacco, vice, groceries, and several cases of valuablo jewollery, and many other articles. The entire cargo of the Tarawera, a great portion of the cargo of the Wakatipu, and several packages by the Westmeath were amongst the goods destroyed in the building. The loss incurred by consignees of goods will in most cases be very heavy, as the marine insurances lapsed on the goods being dischargee} frqm the vessels, while very fe\y of the rrjerchants, ace in flp habit of re-insuring their goods immediately after they are laiujed. Hi is believed £{jQOO will cover the insurance risks, and that £2500 will qover the importers' losseg by fire. '_■

The Agricultural Gazette suggests ploughing as a new athletic sport. Except the way in which some M'ellhandled boat obeys the tiller, , no greater triumph of human intelligence can be geeij than whpn te'anj and plough move in 'Barmony ■with the' wjll and voice/ of the driver, almost without * any", distinct ,niotipn_jof-his own. rfPhe steersniaimand plqughtnap, inform " rpatter with their mm.d, ]