FIRE AT WAERENGA- A -HIKA
SEVEN ROOMED HOUSE DESTROYED
At about two o'clock this morning a seven roomed house owned and occupied by Mr Joseph Hamon, Waeronj*a-a-hika was totally destroyed by tire. It appears that, for some days past, one of the female iuinatea of the house, a relation of Mr Hamon, has been suffering from a sprained ankle, and for this purpose had the lij^ht burning in her bedroom through the night. The lamp was placed on a chettioner alongside the curtain, and at about the hour namod she saw it explode. The flames caught the curtain and in a few seconds the room was in a blaze. Mr Hamon, who was quickly in the room, saw no chance of saving the house and exertad all his energies to saving the furniture. In this respect he was not very successful only a few articles being saved before tho building was a mass of flames. The insurances lire £200 on the house and £75 on the furniture in the Standard. The loss is ostimateel at £100 over this sum.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4737, 10 December 1886, Page 3
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179FIRE AT WAERENGA- A -HIKA Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4737, 10 December 1886, Page 3
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