BUSH FIRES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2091, 17 January 1908, Page 3

BUSH FIRES.

Til If. IiLAZE IN THE MOTU. ANOTHER NAIIROAV ESCAPE. COMMUNICATION STILL CUT OFE. It appears that tho daiu£er from bush fires iu tho Motu district is not yob ovor, for another narrow escape' is roportod. Mr. AV. D. S. McDonald received intimation yesterday that Mr. Wright’s homestead was again in danger on Wednesday ni'dit A garden fence caught lire and all tho available assistance was called upon to carry buckets ot water and .it was only after a struggle that the place was saved. Even then, tin. household had to keep a watch all ’ 'A number of people wore expected down from Motu to Whakarau aid their non-appearance is liitoipu ted that their places weie m dan ■Tor. Tho two places could not coim municate as the telephone 1™ >, s still down. The break is at Mi .. ( ■ U. Bridge’s place, lour miles Things appear to he quiet at MiMcDonald’s homestead, and th f are still burning about h " 5* tl, r i« no w,„. ». .l ««> £ U was very hot tlioio >es pi-ivaw' CI t C elephone lino » f ™ several places ’ the ftres have repairing it until the abated.

THE CHRISTCHURCH FIRES. burnt man doing well Pre«s Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. W- , •William Moon, the caret ake.i ot ,»• . * p. ir i- wlio >vas I>kll> btu n «Un yesterday’s grass fire, on. Coshmere Hills, is progressing l.i\oi.iW> at the hospital. IN THE NELSON DISTRICT. NELSON, dan. Hi. Bush fires continue in vnrious parrs of the district, and much damagi o crops and fences is. .ropi t. d._ he Waiti correspondent ot the Cno aiist” states that the range o I'- 1 » botween that place and Botfg mt. ■- now a. blackened mass, .and that- a other lire has started, iu a Cm i n mout reserve of 5000 acres, at e head of Trass A alley, neat Wat. The shortage ot water thioi plKmt the distict is becoming very, iwi-oi s well-water sources and spimgs which settlers arc dependent now ,exhausted, and. unless iam comes soon. tho. position .v. ill m ,r r ,ive. Tlie milk supply is tailing oft' to an alarming extent in. em’/Jequenco of the dryness ot the pastiues. At Stan lev Brook, AA ilkinson s propertv was swept by five on 'Vedneedav. The oat crops aiul ImmcrtcaU wero saved with difficulty. Iwo budtmen’s camps with their contents were destroyed.