LATER PARTICULARS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 12 January 1886, Page 2

LATER PARTICULARS.

P.veroa, Monday. The fire started in the kitchen of Walsh's hotel, and the servants and boarders, who saved nothing but their bleeping garment*, narrowly escaped being burnt to death. Nothing whatever has been saived and as the proprietor and his family are absent on a visit to the Thames it is not known .whether the property was insured. Hosie's general store and contents were insured in the 'South British for the bum of £750. The fire spread with such lightning rapidity that little or uo property has been saved. The next place to go was Reids dwelling house, which was insured in the Now Zealand Company's office for £300, occupied by Colbrook, who lost all his furniture, which was not insured. There was a strong breeze blowing from the cast, and it was at one time feared that the Smile of Fortune Company's battpry plant was doomed to destruction. The roof of the battery house caught fire several times, and but for the superhuman efforts of the miners the building would certainly have been consumed. Great credit is due to Mr Farmer, who lisked his life to check the progress of the fire on the roof of the bat tery. Nothing is known as to the origin of the fire. The insurances as far as can be ascertained from the offices in Auckland, are : Hosie's, £750 in the South British, £200 reinsured in the Mercantile, and £150 in the Phasnix ; Reids, £300 in the New Zealand; Walsh's hotel, stock, furniture, and fittings, £375 in the Victoria, £350 in the Norwich Union, and £125 in the London and Lancashire.