FIRE IN FREEMAN'S BAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 131, 11 June 1885, Page 2

FIRE IN FREEMAN'S BAY.

No small amount of excitement Wai M castoned in town about ten o'clo o W h morn,ngbythecla„gin K ofthe nr e b J 8 It was reported at the Fire Bri gade J k that the fire was in *m_J_*£** thither ; the Brigade proceeded «£* as possible in the company of a _i_ n y crowd of excited men- S,Xfe On their arrival at the foot of v- ? ren' street West, they were ta&Jpft 11.0 (no was out, and while a that tendenfc Hughes and seve °1 oT^ men proceeded to tho scene to £a___, * selves, tho othors returned to il.* Brigade appliances. The fire it tlw had broken out in a small e a WPP? ared> shed in Custoins-streot Cs? mJ m Messrs Holland and Butler as ___ US.°? *>? tory. Mr Atkinson, the S^WfiT ing somo oil in a cauldron, when lh l toil boiled over and ran into the £« result, of course, was that t__ n hs ascended to the ceiling and set fire tT?? woodwork there. A similar occur™,/ __ happened once before, and the fire occasion was extinguished with™ SS* culty by the hanSs employ'Subpremises. Consequently Mr AtkW ~8 no alarm, and quietly Jt about h» putting out tho lire. He was th, gaged, when somebody outalde s?£ smoke and (lames, and breaking «T. , "8 disc of an adjacent fire-alarm £!£*! catcd with the central station and bells in motion. When Sunerlnt!,^" 19 Hughes arrived, the worftt^ ventilator on the roof was still on fi~. v c the flames thero wero quenched by ™ , the firemen by means ola bucket of 2" Tho damago was very slight, and S covered by £5. s ' ancl w»U be