DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT NEW PLYMOUTH Damages Estimated at £20,000. [BY TELEGRAPH -PRESS ASSOCIATION.] New Plamouth, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2008, 21 May 1885, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT NEW PLYMOUTH Damages Estimated at £20,000. [BY TELEGRAPH -PRESS ASSOCIATION.] New Plamouth, Tuesday.

Tun largest Hie which has taken place here for yea id ouciu led s>hoi tly after one o'clock this morning in the block of buildings of winch Courtneys Auction Matt formed the centre, and in the shop connected with which the fire is sup posed to have commenced. When the alarm was given the hie had a good hold of the buildings, <md Ntohr's (jeweller), and two empty shops on either Mdc of linn, Sole Bi others (butchers), New Zealand ( lothing Factoiy, Mr Callaghan (grocer), and bakery soon followed, the tire being stopped at that cud by the railwiy line separating it from Brasch and Co. 's fancy w alehouse on the otlur bide The shops of Ford, draper, and Jackson and Lightband, shoemakers, soon followed. The backs of the houses in Biougham-street, on the other side of the railway line, also at times caught tire, but thi' Hie was extinguished. The Impel lal Hotel was sived by exertion on the pait of the Kite Bug.ule. Dm ing the fire it was pouring with l.iiu, so inobt of the goods that weie saved, but not housed, wore damaged. The wind was blowing a gale fiom the sea, which caused the tiie to e\ted, notwithstanding the cltbrts of the Fire Bugade, and the supply of water being good. In addition to tho^e mentioned before, the following buildings wer burnt : — Moilliu and Dingle's funii tine waichouse, in Brougham street, which caught tire from the back; Owen and (Jraham's sample room at the back of Ford's, draper ; Mrs. Sarten's two stoivyed house in Currie Lane ; Colon's two cottages, Mrs. Callaghan 8 bakehouse and stables, and Courtneys Hall, w hicli till lately was used by the Salvation Army as a meeting house. The insurances, so far as can be gathered, are as follows : — Callaghan's Building, £800 in Colonial ; stock, £500 New Zealand, £2."><> South British Jackson and Lightband's btoek — £400 in New Zealand Fiie Insurance Association, in London and Line.ishne £100 ; Ford, draper, about £1 100 iv otlices not named ; Hulke (Ford's building), National, i'.lOO ; Walker, Impetial Hotel, £1000 in Norwhich Union ; Avery, tobacconist, £100 in Noiwich Unioii ; Ntohr's, £!W0 iv London and Lancashue, £100 of which has been re-insured ; Hums Fotd, saddler, £200 in South Biitush on the stock which has been damaged. Molliin and Diugle were not nibuied. The total amount said to be insim d is £10,000, which property worth £20,000 has been dustroyed.

A ('OHKKsI'OM)KNT, who kIIOWB the oountiy, wutca to us : "I am much amused at the idea, of the (icrmans sending out ' books ami papers ' to the immigMiits at Angia Pequena, which is, as described by Pi ingle : ' A deport him ling .md die ir, JAus.iktn by in.vi, from f.unine 01 fe«ir.' Any immigrants that went there would oertainly require books, etc., as they would have nothing else to do but read ; but as not a blade of grass grown in its shifting sands, the supply of books w ill be required only for ttie missionary and the one shop and canteen keeper. Gakdul or Abu Klea are oases in comparison to this daserr, which extends for 800 miles, ond there is no back country to support fifty white men, even at 100 miles distance. It is very unsafe for Dr. Luqoret/ to send emigrants there because it is healthy, and they will return, and as sure as they do ho will have to explain how it came to pass that he was so flowery. Whenever the Germans know the truth, they will bring Dismarck and his colonization schemes to book." Atcoiioifc Faiuu\. — The chronic debauchee feels that he positively cannot exist without hti alcoholic stimulation. To quit drinking or to continue the habit brings death all the tame. Such a nmn can find in American Co's Hop Hitters properly used, a perfect panacea for the drunkard's cure. .Read.