• The Fire Brigade was summoned yesttrday at 10.45 a.m. to extinguish a gorse lire on Wellington-terrace.at the back of Messrs. ..Qodber and Co.'s_ shop. Shortly -before midnight last night a fire_ broke out m-a-^he3 attached to-the'nine-roomed residence of Mrs. .."Julia' .Hales, Bintoul-street, caused, it ifl understood, through some hot ashes having been thrown into.a: box.- " The house-is owned by Mrs. Butts, of Gordon-street. ' Slight damage was done to the shed. Mrs. HsJes's furniture arid effects are insured in the Sun Office for £300.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 8
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