FATAL FIRE AT NAPIER.
NAriEK, Monday. A fatal fire occurred at Dennett's Albion Hotel. Early this morning the hotel was discovered to be on fire and it was supposed that all the inmates were rescued though one was so drunk that he had to bo lowered by ropes, being incapable of helping himself. The Fire Brigade got the fire under after about £800 worth of damnge was done, one wing of the building being gutted. The firemen, in going through the rooms, then found a man named Sn&iley, a shepherd, who had just coma to town. There v,-as no knob on the bundle of the dcor iosido his room, so that he could not escape. He was very little burned and there wa3 evidence of hit dying from suffocation. The insurances on the buiidipj? were £tj'oo in the Standard and £800 in the New Zealand, and on the furnituie £500 in ths Union. The stock was not insured.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 262, 28 December 1880, Page 2
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