ANOTHER FATAL FIRE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 5

ANOTHER FATAL FIRE.

OLD MAN SUFFOCATED

By, Telegravh—Press Association

AUCKLAND, Saturday,

Scotia House" in ; Hobsoh "Street, owned by Mr Robertson, and occupied by Mrs G. S. Hart, and a daughter, as a boarding bouse, was destroyed by fire with its contents at 3.44 this morning. The house contained fourteen rooms. There were two boarders, Albert Morris,.aged' 7%, and a Maori man. The' nrefljad. a good hold when discovered."' Mrs' and Miss Morris esJrom the room on the/ground ■floor uninjured. The. fire-brigade arrived promptly. The. Bouse then in flames and the members of the brigade entered the upper rooms at considerable risk: They found Morris in a small upstairs room, lying on the floor quit© dead. "He was partly clothed, and evidently had thrown on some clothes and was suffocated in attempting to escape. The Maori escaped by ■, jumping through the glass of a front window. He was badly cut, but was otherwise uninjured. -, He had a narrow-escape. The house and contents were' insured. ' ' .''"' "•'■'■ '- . ■• v ; . . t| ._ .._ AJQCK£AI\T*v Last Night; '•" :It : wasVAlberVNorris, not Morris, who was suffocated in the fire ai> Scotia House on Saturday. He was a cripple! . Mrs Short estimates her loss at £2OO. She is insured for £IOO. Several other outbreaks have occurred in the city, and the brigade have been busy. The most serious was in Hutchinson's ; warehouse,where the flames had a big hold when they were discovered. The lire.was soon put out, but the damage is hot. yet known.' .'./-...'.".