Yesterday's Fire.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 58, 5 September 1895, Page 2

Yesterday's Fire.

As reported in our yesterday's issue, a fire broke out yesterday afternoon in an j outhouse belonging to Mr J. Greenwood I in Bovven street, by which the structure and its contents, including a buggy and harness, were completely destroyed. The fire is supposed to have been caused through a servant girl taking the charcoal from a box iron, thinking there was no fire in it, and putting it into the charcoal box in the shed. The conflagration, however, did not occur until three hours after this. Several members of the Fire Brigade promptly turned out on the alarm being given, but it was a pitiable sight to see four of them dragging the heavy engine to the Makino stream, where they had to get the water supply, while sevoral person? were about the streets, none of whom offered their services. The firemen, under Captain Eade, deserve every credit for their energy in getting the water on the fire, and they undoubtedly prevented its spread to Mr Greenwood's residence, the back of which was considerably scorched. There was no insurance on the property destroyed. We would suggest to Captain Eade that some mode shoul i be adopted to either employ the idlers who congregate at fires, or to keep them back so as not to hindtr the firemen when working.