BUSH FIRES.
SEVERE LOSSES.OF SETTLERS. - THRILLING ESOAPEB. SEVERE LOSSES OF SETTLERS. : {bi association—corvßiani.) ; ■ s ■ Sydney, January 6. Reports from tho firo-BWcpt districts discloso widespread devastation. Settlors along ■ the- Hawkosbury Valley, tho South Coast, and in the Hunter River districts are severe .sufferers, ■> ... Many lost their entiro crops, and some i their homesteads; •• Thrilling storioß are told of narrow -escapos and heroio rescue work in the pastoral districts. Besides many thousand aores of grass and'crops, numbers of cattlo and sheep .perished, and tho great heat wrought havoc amongst poultry. The heat wave lms now broken. A cool •hango set in'last night, accompanied by tght rain in tho south-eastern districts.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 5
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108BUSH FIRES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 5
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