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c On Thursday afternoon a stable and cowshed belonging to Mr James Henderson y/erc burned down at Hawkcshury. While Mrs Henderson was away from the house her sons, Archibald (aged six) and Albert (four), obtained some matches and set lire to the stable, in which there was a large quantity of hay and straw. The place and its contents were uninsured. At 12.80 this morning a nine-roomed wooden house situate in Grosvenor street, Kensington, was completely destroyed l>y fire. It was owned by Mrs Eliza Notion, and occupied by herself and her daughter. They retired shortly after ten o’clock, and on awakening after midnight Mrs’ Notion found the place on fire, and the flames rapidly spreading. The inmates had to escape through a window. The Dunedin C|ty, Cayersham, and South Dunedin Brigades and the Salvage Corps were promptly on the spot. Of the origin of the fire nothing is known, but it seemed to spread from the kitchen, and that was the only part of the house in which there had been a fire during the day. The building was insured in the South British Office for Ll5O.
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Evening Star, Issue 7449, 18 February 1888, Page 2
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189FIRES. Evening Star, Issue 7449, 18 February 1888, Page 2
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