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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 900, 23 December 1870, Page 2

Barrack-street had a narrow escape from destruction by fire yesterday, about noon. A drunken eld fellow, named Flynn, who with his wife resides in that locality,.had been and violent during the early morning. About noon the neighbours observed smoke Jssueing from, the crevices of the door and vindowß. Knocking proving fruitless, the door open, and Flynn found lying drunk on the floor, whilst a quantify of blazing tarpaulins were heaped in the fire-place. A few moments longer would have sufficed to cause a conflagration.-—N. 2. Heraja\ Dec. 16,, John Saxon, the editorial chronicler of the fall of Napoleon at Waterloo lives to chronicle the fall of Napoleon 111., at Sedan. The Repository asks, *■ Is there in the world another editor who in the active exercise of his profession has had the good fortune to dispatch by his own paper the first the last of tlpe Napoleons? There are probably others living who were editors in 1815., but we doubt if another can be found who has been con> linuously t.he .bgajogsa to tlys tijGjje.