STIFLED IN TIME.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, 4 January 1910, Page 8

STIFLED IN TIME.

■ ,| "■ J^^Mx- A^BIG^FIRE;-/' ' dHRISTCHURCH:

[PBESS, ABSOOIATION.] ■i^/- :. •About fialf-paist " two olclock this :inorniiig t"he Christchurch fire brifjade received an alarm %of^rt> in the arge Cafe Cecil botildtag' in High Btreet, and a large, force of fiiemen. turned out quiqkly! They found a -dense volume of smoke issuing from rooms occupied by L. V. Goyen and. R. J. King, dentists. Two couches in the waiting T rooni were on fire and the walls were considerably charred aM Slackened.

; There was a tin of benzine in the room, and a cylinder of gas was in close proximity; while a lighted bicycle lamp was found in an adjoining wo-rlj;-foom. ~;.;. ■ ■' The fire *?g& qiiickly subdued by "the" bngade.v^jfek, was, fortunate in being able; it at an early.. stage. !.-.;'•'■ ■;■•!■■''■•■■ , '