NARROW ESCAPE FROM A SERIOUS FIRE.
• [By Telegraph. J Chbistohhech, May 22. A narrow escape from a serious fire occurred at the Central Hotel this morning. Constable Allen, when oh duty in Gloucester street, about four o’clock, noticed a flickering light under the door leading to the commercial room of the hotel. He at once burst in the door and found that the mat inside was in flames. The inmates were at once alarmed, the mat thrown into the street, and the burning boards of the floor extinguished with a few buckets of water. It was then seen that about a square foot of the floor close to the door had been destroyed. Had not the fire been discovered before it got much hold the consequences might have been serious. It is supposed to have been caused by some person dropping a lighted match on the mat, which, after smouldering some time, at last burnt into a blaze.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3162, 22 May 1883, Page 3
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