FATAL FIRE NEAR NASEBY. (From Our Own Correspondent.)
NASEBY. January 16. A fire, with fatal refoilt", occurred at 5.20 this morning, by which the hou«o of John Burn-, a. drvioi . was destroyed. How the firo broke out n unknown. Burns wa3 harnpssing his team to make an early htart, and IIL3 wife was with him, whon they noticed that the hou=e wa* in flames. They rushed off at oner- tc rescue their little daughter, five years of age, who was in tho houfe, but the flames had by this timp got Mich a hold of the building that thpy could! not get near where the little one was >leep* incr. md j-he perished in the flames.
Tho house was a five-roomed cottage, owned by Burns himself. He had no in* turaucT on cither h'n lioihc or furniture, which weie totally destroyed.
Th" matter has been reported to the) coioner, wh" will hold n incpie-t to« mm row
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Otago Witness, Issue 2497, 22 January 1902, Page 4
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