ANOTHER TERRIBLE BUSH

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 89, 7 January 1886, Page 2

ANOTHER TERRIBLE BUSH

TOWN JOTfST|^OT6RI> PAR. 15 FAMILIES LEFT^ HOMELESS. [PKB VKITBD PBEBS ABBod^TlOK.] HAtfM*^This Day. A bush fire, wMch had been raging "near StiraaSwl k townsl^aSouTmdwaj between, Hawexa and. New Hymouth, swept into that' townsHip yes* %rday minm at four o'clock ttnd did great damage. FaU { particularg are not j&ffihahi, but fully fifteen families harerUmi left homeleae: When th^ J J^S for was barmog fieecaly, and SO it 30 women and ,; ehildren jw«rerF>|i9EK' r into the train and brought to Saw««v'sell leaving their hxwbands'lielwid to battle with the fire/ andwime'likve become; separated from thei^ <^ldren. Late in theoereniog a special train was sent up, and^rought morepeopb down. ' The heat and "the Smoke was terrific, but it Wa» f ßdped that the larji^bnjUdi^ Ciiriis' r stpre, HenVree's r store and (tester's would/beaaVedthon^hp^ of them had I ' been°oii ; fire. Then it) yet no definite information as to ihm houßes^ whigh hyre been detir^ed. or the probable . loss, ■ and ,x one qi /&& railway bridges have been $■*&<*& ' Later.— lt is reported that 2& houses, are burned at Stratfdrll, th» ; Town Hall, but that the public principal stores^ and a hotel are ai»Ted, haying, howerer, been vmotd ori les» ininred. The railway bridge is charred, but not destroyed.. ' ,*a