FIRES.
A four-roomed cottage in Leith, street, owueil and occupied by William Smith, fish hawker, was destroyed by fire two o’clock ibis morning. The biro Brigade and Salvage Corps 'v«>’ e promptly on tho scene, but the place was completely consumed before they could do anything, iho building and ollccts were insured in tho South British Oliice. for LIOO. Mrs Smith states that her husband went to the laion yesterday, ami on going to bed at eleven o’clock last night she left a small fire burning in the kitchen, and the lamp alight in case her husband returned. She was awakened shortly before two o clock, and found tho kitchen ablaze. Sho, Mith her sister and Miss Worry, who was staying with them, had barely time to escape with a lew articles of clothing. A cottage in Cumberland street, occupied by Mary Ann Davis, was completely gutted early on Tuesday morning. By a fire at Otepopo on Sunday, which destroyed some buildings on the farm of Mi A* Anderson, tho National Ollico loso LKX/.
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Evening Star, Issue 6842, 4 March 1886, Page 3
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174FIRES. Evening Star, Issue 6842, 4 March 1886, Page 3
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