DANGEROUS FIRE.
I A tiro of a. dangerous character, invotvLtho total destruction of a six-roomed jouae, and the narrow escape of the inLta» r -broke oust on the premises of Neil [t'Cowan, at the Waitaki. on Friday mhti. From what ww can learn T 5"Jr. jt'Cowan arrived at the Waitaki on Friday [rening, bringing with hiia a tittle boy. |fr. and Mrs- Blackwood. his brother and jiater-in-btwy were also inmates of the iouao at the time of the fire, and Mr. Jlnckwood states that shortly after retiring
s bed, he was distorbod by the smell f smoke, and e» going to the room where t'Cowan and the bay slept, he saw a olnmo el Same rushing oat. Both (t'Gowan and thfc b\>y were taken oat »ifch noma (fifß'cttKjr* The house, we are jivan, to understand, was insured in the Standard, but we have not heard to- what jnoimt ' y it# loaa, however, is between ;300 and £4OO. M'Cowan has gone to Wftiinate to look after the insurance.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 170, 6 November 1876, Page 3
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