DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT TAUWHARE. Mr Browning's Residence Destroyed.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2020, 18 June 1885, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT TAUWHARE. Mr Browning's Residence Destroy ed.

Tiik 1 evidence of Mi F. l'lnwimij,', ihm i Tauwhm, w.in totally dcstto\ed by hie y.-r-teulay nun nui}?. Mi Hi owning li.ul din en -4oidi> vi-itois to the Tain iheie >t ition to c.itcli the morning tt.iut t<> \uck l.md, and on aiming at the station ho ob -ened th.it his bouse wa- mi *ne. Hi immediately tlio\i» bock, but when he amved tin- building was in aMie-. It .ippiMrs tltat .iftei bic.tkf.«-<t M)iuo clothewere pi »cd on a horso befoie the dmiiiar r.x.m lue t i <hy, itui it 1-1 siiriin^tsd tl) it eith-T -onic -pitk-< itm^t huo «.et tlicni nil tiro or Viat tlie horn.' foil forward. Notlunn citUhi *i to the Diiß.m «>f the fire Iknown. Mh Urowninffi wli<» «-» s in thf kitclion, w.i^ told by the tenant tli.it the chininey n.i-. on hrp, and on proceeding to the dining room it w.c found to be in .1 bIH/o. The fiie Kjne.id with antonnhuiK rapidity, .nul only .1 few articles of clothing were «a\rd. Mr Dipiose, who oh served the rue at .m ctrly -tige, wawMionon the spot, and by lvi tintiruu' efforts the utable* and other outbuilding w<>re i.ned. 'Die hoi:-e, which contained nine room, wax, with the furniture . intured in the New Zealand Office for £~A\ and the *t«hlc were c<»\ered by a policy in the tiiwnlhw foi fVi. Mr lirowiniiK estimates his loss at ±.'.">oo over and .ibosc the insurance, and in addition he 1om»s nHineroUi articles of %iitu which cannot bo replaced. With the e\cej»tioM of Mr> Urowniiiß who, as stated, was m the kitchen, no one w.i-, in tho house at the turn) the hre orcuned. The two children were outside. The wine of tho fire can therefore only be conjectuied.