BURNING OF THE CARTERTON ACCOMMODATION HOUSE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5072, 26 June 1877, Page 2

BURNING OF THE CARTERTON ACCOMMODATION HOUSE.

Our correspondent writes under date Satur-day:—To-day at about 12.15 o’clock smoke was seen issuing from Mr. Heggarty’s accommodation-house, and - Mr. Aplin, who was working near, on noticing it forced open the door, and on kicking the partition under the stairs the flames burst through. He immediately procured a bucket of water, but before he could get a second the flames had got too much hold for his efforts to be of any avail. As a matter of course it created a great sensation through the town, and a crowd soon gathered. One horseman, in endeavoring to reach the scene as soon as possible, galloped over a man who was hastening to the fire and did not notice the horse coming ; but I believe he is only temporarily injured. Mr. Heggarty, who was seen on the premises a short time before the fire broke out, was in Mr, Oliver’s blacksmith, shop when the alarm was given, and after waiting a few moments cantered down. Measures having been, taken to prevent the fire spreading along the fences, Heggarty was taken into custody by the constable. Mr. R. B. Armstrong, as soon as the alarm was given, telegraphed to Greytown, as the premises were to have been sold there, under a writ of fieri facias, at noon ; but the sale was—luckily for the intending purchaser—postponed till 3 o’clock, when the land was sold, subject to the mortgage, at £270 ss. It is rumored that the insurance effected on the premises expires to-morrow.