FIRE AT MAURICEVILLE.
EIGHT-ROOMED HOUSE DEr STiROYED.
INMATES HAVE NARROW' ESCAPE.
An eight-roomed house at Maurice- > ville West, owned by the Wellington' Education Board and occupied byMrs Jacobsen, -was destroyed by fird a few nights ago. The inmates of the house had been away to a party, and returned at a late hour. About! four o'clock in the morning a of Mrs Jacobsen heard a crackling, noise, and getting up discovered the kitchen in flames. He aroused .his sister, who was sleeping upstairs, and! she had just time to escape in herr night-clothes. The building was speedily reduced to ashes, and nothing was saved. The house was, in* sured for £l5O and the furniture foi} £75 in the Standard, Office.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 October 1913, Page 4
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120FIRE AT MAURICEVILLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 October 1913, Page 4
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