FIRE NEAR PAPAKURA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6999, 23 April 1884, Page 5

FIRE NEAR PAPAKURA.

The dwelling house of Mr. Francis Creighton, On the ranges overlooking Wairoa, and about " seven, miles from Papakura, . wits , burned to the ground on Monday,- 21st instant. * Mrs. Creigtiton's statement is'that' on that day, between ten and eleven o'clook" a.m., she was baking bread in the oven in tbe' kitehen. After ; putting/ the' bread in the oven, thinking she smelt' something burning, she went out into the yard to.- 1 her daughters,- who were preparing for ;the in the ' wash-house, and, noti finding anything, she returned. On reaching! .the oven,- the -smell became so ' much ■ stronger' she' again went out, and' lopking ;up at'the' chimney, saw the -roof of " the house a-few feet away from the chimney in' flames, t* She. called out, and her sons who were' workingiu'the busti dame, but the fire had;so^firui: a hold '.they "were unabl'eito'stay: it, and had onlyitime to save a fow thinga bclongingto the teacher o£ the-Aldmor'e'-school before tlxe • rOof' fell' in. The hourfe was'a two-storied; one, had'nine looms, well finished and well" furnished.' - The piano, a new one, and conches in the front roonrwere very choice, and these, together:, wit he very thing else in the house, .. were rburnt. The,;, house.-rwas but the Crelghtons will lie considerable 1 losers. ; Much sympathy -is felt "for-, them . .. -