SWEPT BY BUSH FIRES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 38, 14 February 1913, Page 8

SWEPT BY BUSH FIRES

i SOMi«EAVY LOSSES ■•'(Vt TUtIGMAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, This Day. The position regarding bush fires is much easier this morning. At Ma.tawai, a small township 47 miles irdm Westport, Sloan's sawmill was •Wrecked, and a good deal of valuable timber destroyed. The ne^f hall owned by Peacock and Company:- at, Te Karaka, was destroyed, ■by- fire. Thete was an insurance of £400 i in the Sduth' British. •At Mohi things are pretty warm today. , There were fires around Kirk's -. mill, and 'HalTs mill was also endangered. Dntmmond's mill was dismantled this moaning. SeyeTal settlers had a most strenuous tune protecting their i&properfcies. ' J. B* Clark was a very heavy loser of 'TBtock. The fire is now a mile away from Mata•wai township^ As tho wind is blowing ifl£ that, direction the residents are' feel' king anxious/ 1 RAILWAY CAMP DEMOLISHED. "WOMEN AKD CHILDREN ,* " HURRIEDLY REMOVED. j GISBORNE, This Day. The Motawai railway camp was swept The women and children were hurried■Ay removed. The,' sawmills are in great Adanger. A sharp shower, of rain at 11 o'clock Jcaused a check of the flamesThe loss of stock is very serious. • DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY DANNEVIRKE, This Day, Settlees>in the Ruaroa and Piripiri settlements have had an anxious tune dur,»irig the last few days. Bush fires raging through both blocks ' have occasioned 'considerable damage to property and '«tock. Th 4 full extent of the damage is not "yet aecet tainable. The Buildings on> the, properties of A. ' >ryarrall, F. Yarrall.S. and R. Fair- ' > Sullivan, Donghi, and Morris :, at«Rnafoa, and Aylward's at Piripiri *liave been destroyed. Rain fell last night, and checked the .'flatties' temporarily, but a gale is blowing •again, to-day, and makes the position 'srious.