To a j ary man —The fire could not have spread from the bosh. Archie Anderson, aged ten years, son of Louis Anderson, stated be could not recollect the hour at which he went to bed on the night of the fire. He slept upstairs with Oscar, Kenneth, and a boy of Mr Budd's. They hed a candle in a candlestick, which horned out just as they got into bed. He went to sleep, but was awakened by the room being full of smoke.' He ran down stairs with Mr Budd’s boy, after arousing |Kennelb, but the latter did not get up. Mr Budd’s boy was out first, Oscar woke himself. On going down stairs, be saw no one in.the house. The back door opened out of the kitchen The kitchen was on fire in the paper by the chimney on the top of the mantel* piece, .and on the ceiling. He saw his brother Oscar jump out of the upstairs window, at the end of the housei Oscar was much hurt, and was all blood. He did not say be was burned. Oscar went into the house by the front door te save his mother. When Oscar came ont again he had been burned. Mr Bndd, when witness first saw him, was by the slip-panel dressing. * ’ Sergeant Scott said this was all the evidence. Mr Bodd said be was satisfied if Mrs Anderson attempted to get upstairs, the smoke and fire would be too great for her, as the building burned very fiercely. The Coroner, reviewing the evidence, alluded in feeling terms to the painful nature of the affair, and said be could not help expressing his admiration of the devotion of Mrs Anderson, who, _ i appeared could have left the building and so saved her life, but preferred to sacrifice all in the hope of rescuing her dear children. He bad been struck with the intelligence of (be children who gave their evidence so clearly, and bad never before ob served such a remarkable case of family attachment and heroism, the members lof which had vied with each other in their courageous efforts to save life, par ticnlarly in the oase of the devoted mother and gallant Oscar, whose life he regretted was all bat despaired of. 