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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1321, 24 June 1897, Page 29

It is recorded in history that Nero fiddled while Eome was burned. A resident of Wellington was, on -Tuesday, in a sense an unconscious imitator of that somewhat nonchalant emperor. He lives on Thorndon quay, opposite tho Manawatu Railway Station, and on the evening in question at about 9 o'clock, while writing a letter in hia sitting-room, was astonished by a loud knock at his window and the startling news—■ " Your jolly house is on fire !" The intimation was woefully true. An upstairp bedroom was in a blaze. It seems that some young fellows playing football on the Manawatu Station frontage had seen flames running up tho window blinds, whereupon one of their number had rushed across and given the alarm in the somowhac matter-of-fact expression recorded. Prompt steps were taken to smother the Outbreak, and little damage was done —a ruined blind and curtains and a more or less damaged toilet table being the total loss. The noble athlete, in his moments of relaxation, has often been the subject of much abuse —he has boisterous instincts which refuse to be kept under—but on this occasion lie certainly deserves a word of praise, and at least one Thorndon householder will, we fool sure, be willing to bestow it.

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