NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 22 September 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

A FATAL FIRE.

LADY AND CHILD LOSE THEIR UVES.

WELLINGTON, This Day.

A fatal fire occurred at Fendalton at 10 o'clock yestereve, when a new twostorejyed bungalow in Idras Road was destroyed.

The victims were Mrs Cookson, about sixty, and her grand daughter, aged two years, the daughter of F., W. Freeman, surveyor. Mrs Cookson is a well known resident, and has been living with her son, Mr J. B. Cookson, who left, the house at seven, o'clock, when everything was safe. The house was full of suffocating smoke when neighbours di 5"! ■> /ered the blaze, but an attempt was made to remove the furniture. None of the helpers knew at that thero was anybody inside the and tl ey had only been at work for a' Mtlfr-'■" 'time when the flames brok'3 t,/rtogh With a roar and tine ra>le UMrrg'' was enveloped. Sit was not till Mr and Mrs Freeman and Mr Cookson arrived that it was ascertained that the house was occupied, and it was then much too late to attempt to effect a rescue. The origin of the outbreak is a mystery. MEAT SHIPPING. MONTHLY FREIGHTAGE. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Overseas Shipowners' Committee has arranged space for the fR»ment of 2,650,000 freight caiicases tothe end.of December. The following monthly Shipments lare now loading: September, 430,000; October, 788,000; (November, 564,000;; December, 789,000.