THREE HOUSES BURNT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 119, 18 May 1909, Page 4

THREE HOUSES BURNT.

FIREMEN INJURED BY FALLING ', -.• •" -..■ .•..CHIMNEY., ■■■: ' .

ENGiNE RUNS OVER A CHILD,

' [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] . WELLINGTON, May 18. Three houses were burned at Oriental Bay yesterday afternoon through clothes catching fire before a grate. The houses, being on, the hill, the brigade had difficulty in getting water up. The owners are Pownall, O'Brien and Salter. A fourth house was damaged. The insurances amount to. £2760.' -

■ Two firemen were injured by a falling chimney, and on the way to the scene the engine rair over a child and broke its thigh. •