UPPER QUEEN-STREET FIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1905, Page 5

UPPER QUEEN-STREET FIRE.

DWELLING SEIUOISLY DAMAGED

.\ serioui fire oerurrcd in a groomed dwelling hens* in Upper Queen-atreet on Saturday nlpflit. damage being dane t« tho building ameuiitinii to between £200 and £300. whjle furnitiU'e worth £40 was de*troyf>d. The building consists of a double houa*-, owned by Mr ■Jarue.-i Parr, Th« occupier was Mr Conriandine E , . Mehillc a restaurant beeper, lie was sleeping at home <iu/ing The holidays, bnt bb family stayin.e at the r-estaapaiit- The house wa= visited by a boy named 2ainee about 7.30 on Saturday evening, lie lit! a candle, in the kitchen, and states that when he put it out and left the heu=e there. \va» !no sien af fire. The alar-si was given at 10.50 p.ju. by Mr D. E. Brown, and the il'ity lire lirigatie v,-a s quickly at \verkin the llaint'i. The outbreak seemed to be centred near the kitchen, and although the brigade (juickly got it under control, two oi the back rooms, a stair-ease, and part of the Feef were destrayetl. The Corps saved a quantity of furnitaro, including a piaiioiarte. Mv Mcl vilte ; 6 hiFßitUFe was iusur-ed for- £130 ia the National OtfK-e : while tltp builtling was covered to thu o.sient of t990 iv the South British Office.