Bush Fires.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Hobart, Dee. 8. The bush tires, fod by a strong gale, raged till Saturday afternoon, when rain checked them. About forty huts, cottugos, and shops wore destroyed on the outskirts of Queenstown, including the post-office. Only unremitting and desperate offorts prevented the destruction of tho town. Tho wholo country round Quoenstown, Lyncbford, and Ponghana has boon swept. Tho efforts of tho workmen prevented serious damago to mining plants. Numbers of isolated dwellings have been burnod.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 690, 9 December 1902, Page 3
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