THE FIRE FIEND: HOW TO AVOID HIM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8630, 28 July 1891, Page 6

THE FIRE FIEND: HOW TO AVOID HIM.

One.of the finest eights seen in Australia for many a day was the fire at the bonded warehouse on Circular Quay in tho month of January last. The fire broke out aboub eight o'clock, and, as Colonel John Hay pub it, " burned a hole in the night" in a very short time. An hour later, the whole southern part of- the city was illuminated by the glare of several thousand cases of kerosene, ignited and burning fiercely. Fire brigades and water in abundance were of course immediately available, bub tke flames had too good a hold, and were fed by a material far too combustible to yield to any human efforts. The building and its contents were doomed from the first, and all hope of salvage had ceased long era the fire had burnt itself out. Two or three daye later, when the ruins had been sufficiently cooled down, aud the removal of the outside debris had commenced,, some four thousand cases of "Luxene," the new illuminanb, were discovered intact and uninjured by the fire which had raged w fiercely all round it. Any Sydney daily will confirm this statement, and householders desiring a safe and absolutely perfect light will do well to ask their grocei or storekeeper to send them " Luxene, , instead of ordinary low test kerosene. " Luxene" is available for all the purposes of kerosene, is packed in the eame manner, and suits the same lamps. Especially should residents in the country, where fire organisations are few and far between, insist on receiving "Luxene," as tha safest and best of all illuminating oikAll grocers and storekeepers. E. Pobtßß and Co., Agents.