Fire at Auckland

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1492, 27 November 1905, Page 2

Fire at Auckland

.—» —- Destruction of a Private Hospital Patient Burned to Daalh By Telegraph.—Press Association.' Auckland, this day. Nurse Grikn's private hospital, a build ing of sixteen rooms in Crummer Boad, Ponßonby, was destroyed by fire on Sunday at 11 p.m; There wore eight patients in tho hospital, Seven were safely resoued, but it was subsequently discovered that Mrs Higgins, wife of Arthur Higgins, hotelkeeper, Maropn, Northern Wairoa, had' been burnid to death, Her charred remains wore found on the bed she had occupied in the upper storey Dceeised was 29 yours of age and leaves two ohildron,