FIRE ON THE UPPER PLAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6429, 29 December 1899, Page 3

FIRE ON THE UPPER PLAIN.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

From further particulars gleaned of ' the fire, reported in these columns yesterday, whereby Mr Stempa lost pro- '' petty valued at about £9OO, we learn that after the house was destroyed, all those present rendering assistance were of opinion that the barn was perfectly • safe, they therefore left for their re- * spectre homes. But while Mr Stempa, his wife and children were being refreshed at Mr Sage's house, someone came in and said the fire had broken out afresh; this was thought impossible, as the house was pretty well reduced to ashes before precautionary measures were relaxed, but on going out it was found ; ikt tho large barn was ablaze. - Had'those present thought it possible <ufe the barn to catch, a good deal of was in the building could have Mieea removed to a place of sa^ty; as it was,- nothing wbatpve? wis' saved. At tho time the barn was burnt, there w£c in it several sacks of oats, seven hundred empty sacks, a chaffcuttcr, some potatoes, and all tho necessary farming tools, liiuuy of which did not belong to lli' Stempa, who informs us, that had any idea been entertained (hat the building could have caught, everything in it might have been saved Mr and Mrs Sage, whose residence is not a great , distauco from Mr Stcmpa's, did all in their power to make Mrs Stempa and , her children comfoiiable-Mr Sage coming to Mastortou to procuro eiotlnng , for them, Mr Stempa is exceedingly , ' • chagrined at tho destruction of his.'onni 7i and its content*, as ho had not tlio J • slightest suspicion that it was likely the JLre would spread to it. t,- / =====