THE LATE FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2601, 14 March 1889, Page 2

THE LATE FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE.

The Cambridge storekeepers appear to have quickly recovered from the effects of the fire, for on reference to our advertising columns it will be found that Mr J. S. Bond has determined to occupy his old site again, and calls for tenders for the removal i.F his printing shed nearer to the roadway, and for the erection of a brick front. On Tuesday Mr Bond had a gang of men removing the machines and stock out of the shed, preparatory to its being moved. His "Atlas" printing machine he has put on a level pieca of ground and yesterday it was at work, a shed having been extemporised out of a few old packing cases and a tarpaulin. Mr U. J. Neal is comfortably fixed up in a portion of Houghton's late premises. The. chaff and lime that were burnt cost him £34 Bs, but he reckons that the remains of it will be worth the odd £4 8s if ur.ed a* manure on his farm. He says that if it had not been for the assistance of his friends, lie would have lost (|iiite £300 worth of goods, over which ihcru was not one penny of insurances. He is deeply grateful to those who worked so hard and so effiCuully at c'eiring Ins store. Mr \V. 11. Sargent, the jeweller, is in a jhiip in Victoria-street, next to Booth and Roberts' the butchers. He lri< j'ist taken stock and finds his losses in tint department comparatively trifling : his greatest loss will be in clothing and furniture. He speaks ill high terms of the people who assisted to remove his goods, and says they were " light lingered," a remark that he immediately qualified by saying " I mean the right sort of lisht fingeredness;" thereby implying that they handled his stock carefully, instead of stealing it, us the one description of "light fingered" individuals would have done. No one would imagine that Mr Rnge had moved, he looks as if he had been in the shop ho is occupying for years. He was the first on the look out for fresh premises, and had taken the shop he now occnpio.-. under the Criterion Hotel, before the fire was half way up the street. Wonder/ ing what made him so smart, we asked him if he had ever been burnt out in New Zealand before. He replied, "No ! But 1 have in London ; and you have to keep your eye-i skinned and on ths look out for fro<h premises in that little village, if you want to be near your former po.-kion." Vivo minutes after he had taken the premises another applicant was after them. Mr Golder has moved into a little shop

very nearly at the English Church end of Victoria-street. He is evidently under the impression that Duke-street is done for. We are pleased to learn that the reported thieving at the C imbridge fire was incorrect as all the goods that were missing have now been found. Quite a crowd of individuals connected witli the insurance offices have been inspecting the scene. It is not yet known if there will be an inquest. ■