Cause op Houses catching Fire. —Wo were; shown the other day an instance of how fires iii dwellings may occur. The house we were taken into was like many others in this town, without a hearthstone, having merely a thin sheet 'of iron plate nailed in the front of the fireplace. This iron had become heated, and had net only charred the floor, but actually burnt a large hole in it. Had it not been fir some one in the house noticing smoke rising through the crevices in the floor, the immates would have gone to bed without the slightest suspicion of there being any danger; and then during the night the hou3e would have been discovered»to be on" fire,' and no one able to account for the manner in which it happened. The Insurance agents Bhonld , examine the houses that are insured and gee that ihoy have hearthstone?.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 868, 13 March 1869, Page 3
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