THE RECENT FIRE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 20 January 1872, Page 6

THE RECENT FIRE.

About nine o'clock on Sunday night, 14th inst., our fire- bells rang out their alarm, and not on this Occasion for a gorse hedge — it was a stable that was on fire, and that in the most contral part of our town. Thanks to the hose kept at the junction of Trafalgar and Bridge-streets, our everactive Fire Brigade were enabled to be quickly at •work, and must have succeeded in extinguishing the flames before any serious amount of damage Lad taken place, had not the hose burst; yet even with this discouragement they were got Bafely under about twenty minutes from the time of the first alarm being given. The inquest subsequently held to inquire into the cause of the fire will give our readers full particulars respecting it. Wo wish, however, to draw attention to the fact of tho repeated bursting of the india-rub-ber hose used by the Brigade, in the hope that something may now be done, and done at once, by the Insurance Companies and others to provide the Brigade with a better means of seconding their voluntary efforts to combat fire. The rlisoussions which took place among the jury summoned to inquire into the cause of the fire, and the pretty general opinion then held with regard to the paltry sum given by the Insurance Companies in aid of the Fire Brigade, should hear its fruit.