THE FIRE FIEND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 9493, 15 August 1891, Page 2

THE FIRE FIEND.

HOW TO AVOID HIM. One o£ the finest sights seen in Australia for many a day was the fire at the bonded warehouse on Circular Quay in the month of January last. The fire broke out about eight o’clock, and, as Colonel John Hay put it, “ burned a hole in the night ” in a very short time. An hour later, the whole southern part of the city was illuminated by the glare of several thousand cases of kerosene, ignited and burning fiercely. Fire Brigades and water in abundance were of course immediately available, but the fames had too good a hold, and were fed by a material, far too combustible to yield to any human efforts. The building and its contents were doomed from the first, and all hope of salvage had ceased long ere tbe fire had burned itself out. . Two or three days later, when the ruins had been sufficiently cooled down, and the removal of the outside debris had commenced, some 4000 cases of "Luxene,” the new illuminant, were discovered intact and uninjured by the fire which had raged so fiercely all around it. Any Sydney daily will confirm this statement, and householders desiring a safe and absolutely perfect light will do well to ask their grocer or storekeeper to send them “Luxene” instead of ordinary low-test kerosene. “Luxene” is available for all the purposes of kerosene; is packed in the same manner, and suits the same lamps. Especially should residents in the country, where fire organisations are few and far between, insist on receiving “ Luxene ” as the safest and best of all illuminating oils. All grocers and storekeepers.