FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE WEST.
Eahly on Tuesday morning, <a four-roomed cottage belonging to a carpenter named Charles O'Neill, at Cambridge West, was burned to the ground. Mrs O'Neill and her child (her husband having been absent at Patetere) retired to bed at the usual hour. Some time after she was awakened by a crackling noise in the kitchen, which she first mistook for the noise of horses. On opening her bed-room door, she found that the kitchen was in flames, the fire having got so strong a hold as to make any attempt to save the building useless. There being no assistance at hand, Mrs O'Neill only succeeded in saving a bed and a box, everything else being destroyed within a few minutes after the fire was noticed. The damage is roughly estimated at about £180, only £100 of which is covered by insurance in the Standard Office. The oiigin of the fire is unkown.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1758, 11 October 1883, Page 2
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155FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE WEST. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1758, 11 October 1883, Page 2
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