FIRE AT PARNELL.
At ten minutes pasb two o'clock on Sunday morning a fire occurred in a house in Manukau Road, opposite the Windsor Castle, occupied as a shop and dwelling by Mr. T. Rogers, bootmaker. Mrs. Rogers was awakened by smoke, and on going into a back room found a Jfiro (which had apparently originated on the top of a box placed against a wall) blazing up along the paper and scrim. She gave the alarm and two young men named Brown came to her assistance and extinguished the fire with a few buckets of water. The only damage done was in this room, the paper and scrim of one wall being burnb off and the lining charred. Mr. Rogers who was ill in bed and unable to move was carried by Mr. Stewart's sons to the Windsor Castle Hotel and cared for there. Mr. Rogers' stock and furniture was insured for £100 in the New Zealand Insurance office, and the house, which is the property of Mrs. Vaughan, is with tho adjoining one which she herself occupies insured in the Commercial Union for £350. The origin of the fire is difficult to understand for there is no fireplace in tho room and ib is stated that no light was used in it or placed on the box on Saturday night. /
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9712, 7 January 1895, Page 5
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