.1 mU •his from oetvahle . V. ■; jt simultaneously ad Western Port create of the Daajcing hills round he baked plains . on to the 'farm' Ided-; the. Barrabocl .□gseaof fire licked igom; . o timber of the Black: e*t the • swept - the -Loddon dtsPyrenees, and raged for days thro ;n~' the: Western district, frying destruction and' dismay right Sjutb Australian border to Mount Irnoiion of human life was ,far night have been expected. . . > ibe only obaaoe .. . the ky.elled.. at,»lrate that overtook ... «d 4 consumed the flying stock in their : msdAff-gsllop. v . ; V " Homos, furniture, . bams, and fences ; sill disappeared. ; :JBie only"- considerable,. portion of the eooatry wbiqh id»d not "eaffov was the in 'where'the plains^had , retained ;tbeis green mttrstle and_the rivers ; gwe auih an! abundantwater y supply.—- . .Rcjv G-. Ttnner'a ‘‘Hislory'of the Colony dpSfciotia-” . '--'i:, . ■
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Gisborne Times, 4 January 1905, Page 3
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