Three Children Burnt to Death.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5709, 4 March 1890, Page 4

Three Children Burnt to Death.

rjt^-Aj fjre* m v wlrich three' little children i^Jgffgjafl'nft, ±o dftath^oegui?'red at Broken HlHon the 16th inst. ThiTiouSe. was occupied by the Cattail family. Cattail, who carried^ on n hairdressing business, was away at ijhe.time, and the throo children, were in bed. Mrs Oattan was .lying on * the in her clothes, .watting lierhus- ;" band'i?;relui-n.- As'Oafcfcan was "returning . home he he heard the fire alarm and hurry•Sy »hg along found his own place being • destroyed; Mrs Cattan was running about ' "Mth hWr clothes in flameSj and some near neighbours, got hold of her, and with some '^difficulty "foiled her in blankets and extingiiished the flatues.Jbut not before she had "been very seriously burnt; An attempt ; ftTvas, then. made. sto save the three little : yj r giris» Jbut the effortsto get them out alive •vverefrintlesB.'' Two'of the children were * Cattail's' own, and the third was a niece. The origin of the fire at present remains a tMystery. ' Mrs Cattan lies in a critical r^cTonditibn,'and her husband is distracted, having lost everything belonging to him. In 'every profession the young are more and more 'disappointed, 'competition grows keener, and the number who admit that they make absolutely nothing, is becoming ■"•° bewildering. The Bar declares itself ...starving; the solicitors lament the proportion who remain clerks for half their * 4ivtfs ; ; the-State service is besieged with ,^., applicapta.for examination ; and medicine is positively choked with men who strive, contend; and intrigue for appointments „ and. "practices" of L5O and LlOO a year. "Fathers lament loudly over children whom, do what -they will, they cannot i 3* pi*!?© ;'^nnd tbeljburnals mention almost „. every week the.hiindreds of applicants for the smallesfe vacancy an educated man can <3 • ,