CRINOLINE IN FLAMES.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 4, 22 May 1863, Page 3

CRINOLINE IN FLAMES.

To the Editor of the InvercargiU Times.) | TO, — I take great pleasure in informing you, wding to promise, that E'iza S., a girl of ten ra of age, of the Dunedin Road, is rapidly pro- I Jsing towards recovery from the extensive and vna burns she received of both lege, both arms, llders and back, on the morning of April 24th. poor girl, wearing afc the time mentioned, a dress widely expanded in fashionable style by oline, came into too close proximity with the in the fire-place, before which she was busily loved in breakfast arrangemento. R^eyig her • jnrnted, she incautiously ran screaming for i, oewnu*?.~~ j terror-stricken, into the open an element w |" c *f^ n^-kindler of flamesuf tragic scene ended for a mother W«.- 6*ri ig dashed into a ditch ofjg^^ter. 1 ■■ here are certainly wv""g when tfwaygtoexJ m f rSfLScasesliketSt^ Rb - ve p / r A° to T S here take the oppo^l^ to I 3ea to, I *^ l _£: erft *iw known-namely Aat 1 ation what is genera i y j Star' to do the instantaneously irUpS S & '** t