FIRE AT STONY CREEK.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 180, 14 December 1881, Page 2

FIRE AT STONY CREEK.

LOSS OF PROPERTY- - t1 . ...

. „ „. , „,,,., + : ... i v~~^« A fife occurred 'oti M tin day afternoon, >V Stony "'■ Creek,": by- "which Mr. Ellis ■James was, "we regrcit^to say; a geeat' sufferer. The origin oPthe .fire, so far eg We can feara^ ia t*nkrio wri. ' 'Mr. James was away from; home a* "*he tihte m th£ pursuance of tit* business, dam) upon returning home towards evening, found bis house a smouldering ruin,.anfL his wife and family shelterless. The case is a most disttessihg one, as Mr. . James is a most striving, and deserving man, tHoisgh unfortßn.aU'{y,| with ala.r>e. family, and limited resources, fns'ii'a [pull against the etreain, and therefore his loss is more severely-felt. Not bins? VreaW saved from the dwellinz hou»2, not even more clothing than the faouly at the time wors. The neighbors around a«semb!:ed.. •to .Mife nay, set vices they cou'd, but the element h'ad seized too strongly upon the hnusf, to-nllow of their being any avail: ? We are.not sur^at present, as ta whether Mr,^ James was insured, bnt m any cisc, .his 107-8 is most serere, and we feel sure he ha» the sympathy of the diffrict m his lo?% Kind neighbors at once offered the. fahiilv the liae of their home«, which wt need not say was thankfully accepted.