FIRES.
Between two and three o'clock on Thursday afternoon some children set fire to the dry grass on tbe Canal Reserve. The fire spread rapidly and destroyed about five or six chains of a fence on Mr C. Vogel's property. Three haystacks also narrowly escaped destruction. Parents should warn their children against lighting flees in the open, a3 during the present dry weather there is no telling what damage may occur therefrom. Early on Thursday morning Constab'e Mark, who was or. duty in Victoria street, saw the reflection of a fire in a right-of-way alongside the shop of Mr A. E. Tutton, butcher, and he found that some straw and rubbish under a manger in Mr Tutton's stable was on fire. The constable broke open the back premises of Mr Evans, baker, adjoining, and aroused two girls, who supplied him with some buckets of water, and the fire was got under before any serious damage was done. There is no clue to the origin of the fire.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9323, 25 January 1896, Page 10
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