GREAT FIRE AT WAIPAWA. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
N.\riEl{, Monday. A TEiutini.K conflagration broke out at Waipawa at three o'clock this morning. The fire commenced in a small cottage near the river, and between the railway lino and the m.'iiii street. The flame-, spread rapidly to a block of small shnp«, and fiom theie to the Empire Hotel outbuildings. These, together with the hotel, were soon totally destroyed. The '?:re is still pioceeding along that side of the street. The Bank of NewZealand was the next to go. Telegraph co'nmunicatiou with Waipawa is cut off. Up to the present time ten shops, the hotel and the bank have been destroyed. A special train has just bpen despatched with the steam fire engine and members of the brigade. It is reported that the post and telegraph olKce is burnt down, and that the flames are now spreading to the other side of the street. The insurances on the Empire Hotel are as follows : —On the building, South British, £750; New Zealand, £500; National, £250. On stock and fi rniture : Union, £."500 ; Norwich, £200 ; London and Lancashire. £350; National, £250.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2105, 5 January 1886, Page 2
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187GREAT FIRE AT WAIPAWA. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2105, 5 January 1886, Page 2
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