FIRE FATALITY.
I (Per Press Association,-) I Invercargill, Saturday. I Loarmont’s boarding-houso, a twoI storied wooden building of forty-one I rooms, was destroyed by fire at Gore at I half-past throe this morning. ThojoiroumI stances are poouliar. Tho first was first I discovered at 2 o’clock undor tho stairs, I and was proeumably.estinguisod. It again broke out in tho same spot at half-past 2, and in another part of tho building at halfI past 3. Tho flatnos quiokly spread, and the boarders barely had time to escape. On examining tho debris, tho body of James Book, 60 years, a farm laborer, was discovered. Tho building was insured for i£SOO and tho furniture for 11450.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1466, 29 May 1905, Page 3
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114FIRE FATALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1466, 29 May 1905, Page 3
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