FIRE IN IRELAND-STREET, PONSONBY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7649, 28 May 1886, Page 5

FIRE IN IRELAND-STREET, PONSONBY.

The city firebells rang out an alarm of fire about two o'clock this morning, and tho glare showed that it was in Alma Place, the scene of two fires already within a fortnight. The Auckland Fire Brigade, uuder Superintendent Hughes, add the Salvage Corps under Captain Field, were speedily on the ground, as also the Ponsonby contingent, but too late to do more than confine the fire to the building in which it originated, a fourroomed cottage situated in Ireland-street, and owned by Mr. Edward Lynch, carter. Only the shell remains, and very few effects were saved. Mr. Lynch states that the wife got up to give the youngest child a drink, and on opening the bedroom door a bank of smoke came in. She aroused her husband, and he at once got some blankets round the children and get them outside, the whole family having barely time to get out. He is quite at a loss to know how the fire originated, and cannot state what part of the house it broke out in. He bought the house on deferred payments from Mr. Chas. Williamson for £250, and had his furnituro insured for £150 in the Imperial. He believes that Mr. Williamson's interest is protected by a policy for £120 in the South British and Royal.