FIFTY YEARS AGO.
FIRE -IN QUEEN STREET. RESIDENCE DESTROYED. "^ti — . A *j.A-.lf.r (From the Eft ALT) of December 12. 1565.) Vaga A most distressing fire took place -f.f| day morning at the residence of Mr J 1 Watson Bain, Upper Queen street, when -^ : his beautiful viilar -was reduced to ashes ' { *M - The building and furniture can no doubt m be* replaced but who can give an equira- { Z*3si I lent for that famous library which M- ~'~"4 Bain has been known to have been for-- M ! Tears gathering around him? H uw ' f;j .fire originated no one can tell, bui in two 1 bour3 fro*n the first discovery of its out- | break scarcely a vestige of the building • i.? 1 remained. Mr. Walters and his men- '' [ saved all that Mr. Bain now possesses, r n ■ early hour at which the fire occm-rwi mav / j perhaps account for the absence of any , fire engines. i =====
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 10
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