FIRE AT TE ORE ORE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3991, 17 December 1891, Page 2

FIRE AT TE ORE ORE.

The Bouse of T&t Eeary Percy Destroyed. The large two-storied dwelling of Mr Henry Peicy, situated nt Te Ore Ore, about three miles from Masterton, containing nineteen rooms, was totally destroyed by fire between twelve and one o'clock thig morning. Mrs Percy and her three girls and, two boys were the sole occupants of the house, Mr Percy and several of his boys bang away shearing at the Upper Taueru. Mrs P#:cy was awakened from her sleep lay the top of the ghiuiney in the dining-room, which had probably been damaged by tha late earthquake, crashing in through the skylight. On discovering that the roof of the house was on fire where the chimney had fallen in the family was quickly aroused! ihe girjs, Tj'ho escaped in their night dresses, ran for assistant to some mill hands nearly half a mile away, but as the flames had got a good hold of the building nothing could be doH(? to save it. The outbuildings were saved by the use of the milk from the .dairy, the pump being too close to the main building to he used. The whole of the furniture was lost, Mrs Perpy, as might have been expected, devoting herself niarely to saving her family, The house, which wag built of heart of totara, burnt rapidly, and was soon / reduced to cinders. The building was insured for LISOO in the National Fire office, and the furniture for £4OO. The original cost of tbo dweN ling was between £IBOO and £I9OO.