FIRE IN SUSSEX STREET, NEWTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1311, 29 January 1868, Page 3

FIRE IN SUSSEX STREET, NEWTON.

Shoktly after twelve o'clock last night a fire broke out in a four-roomed cottage in Sussex-street, off the Newton Koad. The house wns the property of Mr. William Fleming, who is at present working at the Thames diggings. Mrs. Fleming and her family were residing in tho house when tho fire broke out. It is supposed to htive originated in the kitchen, where Mr 3. Fleming had been boiling potatoes shortly before retiring to bed. She was aroused at about twelve o'clock by her youngest child calling for a drink, and on reaching the kitchen, much to her astonishment, discovered it to be on fire. Bho immediately screamed out for assistance, and in a few minutes several of the neighbours were on the epot, but the fire had obtained too great a hold of the building to check its progress. Mrs. Fleming suoceeded in saving a box of wearing apparel, her bod, and a few sundries, but the whole of the furniture, toos, &c, in tho house, were completely destroyed. The fencing was pulled down by the neighbours who had assembled, and the spread of the firo was thus prevented. A number of pertons from town hastened to the fire, and amongst the first we noticed Mr. Commissioner Naughton, who rode out on horseback, and Constable Green, of tho Newton Police. The cottage was insured in the New Zealand Insurnnce Company for £60.