FIRES.
[Special toPbess Association.] ; THE CINTRA FTBE. : MELBOURNE, Jan. 14.; Later accounts show that there was considerable panic "on board the Cintrawh^n the 'fire ■was.first discovered, but the coolness of the captain and officers soon restored.order. ■; The sailors worked splei£ didly in suppressing the fire. . [Peb Pbess Association.] j ■■■; ,■•■■'" NAPIEE, Jan. 14.! : 1 A fire broke out in O'Sullivan's boardingr house at Hastings early this morning,' ' Inglis's store, ,'Blafce's : . stprOi . and an unr occupied restaurants also being destroyed. The inmates of the boarding-house saved nothing, and O'Sulliyan and bis wife and two children escaped with great difficulty. The cause of the fire is unknown.' " Insurances—rO'Sulliyan's house, <£240 in the North British, }and furniture 4100 in the Standard; Inglis, in the South British.; Scott's restaurant, JBSO in the Manchester ; Blake, 460 in the Alliance.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5463, 15 January 1896, Page 3
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