1 first saw Mrs Paterson when some distance away from her. and Miss Williams appeared to join her just at the same time as I did. Whan I say that the bed appeared ruffled, I do not mean more than what would have been caused by a per son lying on the outside of it. The clothes were certainly not turned down. William Harris : I am Superintendent of the Christchurch Fire Brigade. When I beard the alarm of fire on the morning of the 10th instant, I looked through my front windows, but seeing nothing I went to the back, and there found that the fire was in the Restaurant. I went down stairs partly dressed, opened the side door, and directly afterwards saw Mrs Paterson coming up the right-of-way leading into Colombo street, Miss Williams was following her. Mrs Paterson had n dark skirt on, but Miss Williams was fully dressed. They were moaning, like “ Oh, oh,” but making no alarm. Having dressed, I went down the right-of-way into the yard at the back of the Restaurant. Following the un covered passage leading to the dining room, I looked through the cafe window, and saw the fire raging near the bar on the opposite side of the room from the window. There was a considerable amount of drapery about the bar. The piano appeared nearly con sumed, and the whole corner of the room about it and the bar was in flames.' Seeing I could do nothing to extinguish the flames, I went round by the right-of-way to ( ashel street, entering the building again by the shop door previously broken open by Sergt. Pratt. I tried to enter the door leading into the passage to the cafe with the view of cloning the cafe doors to stop the fire from spreading, but could not reach it because of a body of fire in the vicinity of the staircase. I could not reconcile the two fires as being together. They did not seem to be con- and I went back to the right-of-way with the view of making further examina tions, but by that time the whole bnilding was in flames, and I did not enter. When 1 first looked through the cafe window and saw the piano and bar burning, the partition inter vening between the cafe and the staircase was not on fire. 