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New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s

9 Fire in the City

9 Fire in the City

1 By-laws of the Borough of the City of Wellington, p. 338, 1/11/1877, Wellington City Corporation.

2 NZM, 10/4/1880, pp. 11–12, 21–3; 24/4/1880, pp. 21, 24; 15/5/1880, p. 17.

3 Evening Press (Wellington), 30/12/1885.

4 Census Population 1867–7,460; 1886—25,945.

5 EP, 18/5/1868.

6 The main sources for this account of the buildings affected by the fire and the description of the fire which follows are EP, 29/12/1885—16/1/1886; Evening Press (Wellington), 29–30/12/1885; NZM, 22/1/1886, Supplement, p. [1] (a very useful report of the coroner's inquest on the fire).

7 New Zealand Free Lance, 14/1/1911, p. 5.

8 NZM, 24/4/1885, p. 18, 5/6/1885, p. 17.

9 NZM, 5/6/1885, p. 22.

10 NZM, 6/8/1896, p. 19; CNZ, I, p. 680.

11 Wise's Post Office Directory, 1880–81.

12 Wellington Almanack, 1878, 1881, 1884, 1885.

13 Wise's Post Office Directory, 1885–86; EP, 11/1/1886, p. 2 (advt).

14 NZM, 15/11/1891, pp. 22, 34, 41.

15 NZM, 22/1/1886, Supplement, p. [1].

16 TL 3/1/2, 3 July 1956, ATL; Wise's Post Office Directory, 1885–86.

17 NZM, 31/3/1883, p. 16; EP, 12/1/1886, p. 4.

18 NZM, 8/8/1890, p. 26, 22/8/1896, p. 25.

19 Australasian Insurance and Banking Record, 15/2/1886, p. 113.

20 EP, 30/12/1885.

21 Ibid.

22 Evening Press (Wellington), 30/12/1885.

23 Ibid., 29/11/1885.

24 NZM, 14/5/1886, p. 10.

25 NZM, 7/5/1886, p. 22.