ORPHANAGE DESTROYED.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1761, 28 May 1913, Page 6

ORPHANAGE DESTROYED.

FIRE LOSS TOTALS (By Telegraph.—Prow Association.) Auckland, May 2". Tho Roman Catholic Orphanago at, Tnkapnna was destroyed by fire early this morning. The inmates escaped uninjured. The fire resulted in tho total loss or tho building and furniture, The loss amounts to about ,£SOOO. There was au. insurance of .£-00(1 in the South British. The lire apparently arose in the vicinity of the gas meter. One hundred inmates were in bod when lho alarm was given, and all were marched out ill an orderly manner, and did nol wait to dross, lho.y saved very little clothiiijr- . The occupants had a marvellous escape. Had the fire occurred earlier, probably a fearful fatality would have had tn bo recorded. •>

NO BETTER REMEDY FOR CROUP. "My littlo girls, Nellie and Jessie, were bad with croup," writes Mr. .las. Burgis, Stanley Vic., "and would wake up choking for breath. 1 was told Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was a marvellous cure for croup and 1 tried it wilh wonderful results. Now if they show lho slightest of cl ' ou|> 1 R ' v< ' iilem 11 050 of Chamberlain's' Cough Remedy and never hear a sound from them for tho rest -of the night."—Advt. The Anli-llomo Rule campaign, to which Sir .Edward Carson has devoted himself in such grim earnestness, lias 1 involved 110 small pecuniary sacrifice. It is understood at tho Bar, where thoro aro nmplo means of obtaining accurate information on the subject, that during tho last twenty-eight months Sir Edward Carson has returned briefs amounting., in tho aggregato to ,£13,000.