A FATAL FIRE.
HOTEL DESTROYED AND AN OLD MAN PERISHES.
I?RKSS ASSOCIATION
Now Plymouth, last nieht.
A fatal firo occurred at Waitara early on Sunday morning. The Bridge Hotel was totally destroyed and an old man named Thomas Maguire, a laborer, burnt to death. The hotel porter was engaged cleaning tho fito places out about six o’clock, and placed live embers in a wooden rubbish bin, which shortly after caught hro and quickly spread to the house. Tlmre was no water supply, and tho wind blew the llames into the house, which was soon a mass of flames. A bucket brigado saved the adjoining building.-, All the inmates got clear of the building with some personal belonging?, but Maguire returned upstairs to get something and was ovorpowered. The building was owned by the trusters for Mrs Fairwoather. The licensee is W. R Wilson. The building was insured in the North Queensland Ofhoe for £9OO, and the stock and furniture for £SOO in the samo office, and Wilson's personal effects for £IOO in tho Sun Office. Wilson estimates his loss at £4OO over the insurance. The hotel was on a corner opposite the Waitara Hotel, which was burned a few weeks ago.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1937, 20 November 1906, Page 4
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201A FATAL FIRE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1937, 20 November 1906, Page 4
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