DISASTROUS FIRE IN CHRIST CHURCH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2533, 4 October 1888, Page 2

DISASTROUS FIRE IN CHRIST CHURCH.

|BY TELEGRAPH—PRFSS ASSOCIATION] Chhistchurch, Wednesday. A 1310 fire broke out at 2 o'clock this afternoon, at Hobdays Co-operative Company's drapery establishment, which was destroyed. The shops of J. S. Sanditeen, jeweller, and Gould and Co., chemists, were seriously damaged, and the shop of Goodman, bootmaker, was slightly injured. The heat was so intense that the front of an hotel on the opposite side of Colombo-street was severely scorched, all windows being broken as well as the windows of three shops adjoining. A large .skylight of Hallenstein's draper's shop in" Cashel-street to the eastward of the fire, was broken. The fire began on Hobday's upper floor, but how cannot be ascertained, as the employees were absent at lunch. The flames spread throughout the building with wonderful rapidity. The brigade could do no more than save the neighbouring premises. The following are the insurances so far as they can be ascertained : —Gould and Co., chemists, greatly damaged, stock £500 in the New Zealand Company, and a £500 policy in the Imperial Company ; Dalgetty and Co. (Limited), was allowed to lapse 14 days ago. Hobday's Co-operative Store, £19,150 on stock, .and £(i,7- r 'o on buildings. Sanditeeu's insurance, £3,100 ; A. J. Hotel, £000.