A PLUCKY MOTHER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 131, 27 October 1914, Page 8

A PLUCKY MOTHER.

savij iirjsn,\\ T D and cti]i.])!;i:n. KKO.Yt A FJUK. By Telefripk —Prr i'ress Ass»iM*ti«n. 'Wellington, Last Xighl. A flrn atlomlcd by somewhat scu.-a - lions,! circumstances took pi ice at Coartenay I'laiv ]ii.-i morning in tin; promises oicupic*<l 1)y Hubert jMartin as a sweet •bop, ile w,:s engaged in down sugar on a. gas stove in sit up^tiviv« room for tin. purposes of his The sugar overflowed and startr,l a blaze which' proiliu'o.l great quantities of •woke. Marti)-! fell uneonsiious. sud two srnn.ll ('h'l:lrn!i ■deeping in an ad.joining room were also overcome by the funuu of the sugar and th-e gas which ™ escaping. The niotller of Ihe chilli roil wan awakened by a err from her husband, and, rushing in, dragged lier husband out into the open air. Returning inhaHe, she found her children Sf«.sping „nd foaming at the mouth, and apparently dying. The brare woman seir.ei one and carried it into the open Air, and, returning into the smoke .tilled rwnoTcd Hie other into n place of safety. The man aoon recovered', 'but oa» of ike children wa* tiomfc thus in resM*tag consciousness. All hare praa■tiotUy reooveml from their narrow en«ape. The lire brigade wa» »oon on th.t eeea#, wd the fire w«» trtinguiwiHl wiVbont »aii ci difficulty.