SPENDING HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1249, 6 February 1896, Page 29

SPENDING HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS.

By Telegraph — Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 4. Ross, the second victim of the Rotorua fire, who died yesterday, was a pitiable object, not a portion of his body being free from burns. He was, however, conscious, though not able to talk save in a whisper. It appears that in trying to rouse others in the burning building he fell on a landing and the flames swept over him. After that ho only remembered jumping from a window. When he was picked up by Holmes, he said, " Run to the house in the scrub! There is a bo3' being burned." His impulse aIL through seems to have been to save others, for in his occasional moments of delirium when lying at the Rotorua Hotel ho talked of nothing else. At the inquest on Farrell, the jury returned a verdict that there was no evidence to show how the fire originated. The following rider was added :—We are of opinion that boardinghouses should be under strict police supervision with reference to +'"><':litios for escape in the event of fire, as eventuated owing to defective means of egvesSTT^tnS^ th( ; regulations m that respect regarding IToteEsshould be strictly enforced. The Coroner thanked the jury for their verdict, as he believed it would have a good effect, and strengthen his hands in a matter which he had previously urged strongly on tho. Government.