DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
[BY TELE6BAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]
Thames, this day. A fire occurred at Puriri early on Satur day morning in an outhouse belonging to Wm. Mackenzie, by which they lost about £100 worth of property. It appears that his son was in the outhouse about nine o'clock on the previous evening, when everything wa3 safe, but at four o clock in the morning the shed was found to be on fire. It is considered that a spark must have fallen from his pipe and lighted the straw on the floor, wliich smouldered for some time.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 101, 3 May 1886, Page 3
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