ANOTHER FATAL FIRE.
Old Woman Burnt to Doatb.
[»V TELEGRAPH. -PRKS3 ASSOCIATION:] Dunbdin, this day. A fatal fire occurred in Walker-street this morning, resulting in the death of an eld woman named Mrs Joyce, better known as "Granny" Joyce. She lived in a oneroomed shanty at the back of the Rising Sun Hotel, and is supposed to have been Bitting at the fire all night, and that having dropped asleep, she thon fell into the firo. The house, which belonged to Mr Elson, was very old, and burned vory rapidly, and by tho time the Fire Brigade arrived it was too late to save the woman's life. The deceased has been on several occasions an iomate of the Hospital and Benevolent Institution, but could not be induced to stop at either. 8 Mrs Joyce was 82 years old, and her death was caused by suffocation. A small fire had been left burning in the grate, and a spark is supposed to have caught her clothes. She leaves no relations in this colony, but has a married daughter in Sydney or Melbourne.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 207, 3 September 1886, Page 2
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181ANOTHER FATAL FIRE. Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 207, 3 September 1886, Page 2
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