FIRE IN THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Thk Oambiidgo Public Library nanowly esuiped being dostioyed by (noon Tues(l ly night. Tho chimney which had been \ciy foul caught fiio, and lais^e balls- of l>ui iniiy soot i oiled into the middle of the loom. The binning mutter was extinguished by a few gentlemen who happened to In? piosont at tho tune, and the In c in chimney haung been extinguished, tho ploce was locked up for the night. About h ilf past ten a (hckcimi? li^'lit v. as> noticed in the libiaiian's loom by home peiions passing by. The attention of Const.iblo Hicipmii v.is eilled to the matter, and that oilicoi, with the assistance of Const.iblo liwin, foi cod oppti both doois, when they found that moio binning soot had fallen and had ignited the building m se\ei.il places. With sonic dilhculty they succeeded in extinguishing the fire. '1 lie fiie in the clnmnrv binned finimisly and had to be choVcd out w ith wet sacks. Had it not been for the t.mely inteifcicnce of the gentlemen n imod, the buildingand the books would in .1 fey unuutei have bet'ii destio\ed. No ono was sleeping on tlio piomisL's at the timo, tl.f Libi.iii.in, Mi Dodb being abvut in Auckland.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1916, 16 October 1884, Page 3
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208FIRE IN THE CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1916, 16 October 1884, Page 3
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