FIRE IN INGESTRE STREET.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1163, 15 June 1894, Page 38

FIRE IN INGESTRE STREET.

Shortly after 8 o'clock on Monday night a fire broke out in Beaumonde House, Ingestre street, a two-story building of 20 rooms, occupied by Mrs Pascoe, wife of Mr J. C. Pascoo, and used as a boarding-house. It appears that Mrs Pascoe had gone into the servant's bedroom about a quartet of an hour previously, leaving a fire alight in the grate in her own bedroom, where a lamp was also burning. While she was preparing her children for bod, Mr Mitchell, Parliamentary reporter, who was passing by the house, noticed that the place was on fire, and immediately rushed in to inform the occupants. Mrs Pascoe opened the door of her bedroom, which is on the ground floor, and found it full of smoke. The alarm was at once given and the various occupants roused. A man named William Warner, who was living in the hoase, was instrumental in removing a Mrs Harris from the burning building. All the other occupants got out safely. The Fire Brigade, under Captain Kemsley, turned out with all despatch, and after they had worked hard for more than an hour the fire began to show some signs of abating, and about half an hour later the outbreak was got under, although by this time the building had been practically demolished. The building, which belonged to the estate of the late William Tustin, and of which Mr Charles Godber is executor, was insuied in the New Zealand Office for L6OO. There was a policy of L 165 in the Royal Office on the furniture and effects, but scarcely anything was saved, and Mrs Pascoe estimates her loss at over L2OO.