VALLEYS OF FIRE
SORRY PLIGHT OF MARLBOROUGH SETTLERS. Press Association. BLENHEIM, February 16. Bush fires are burning in various parts of the Wakamarina district, and practically the whole valley is enveloped in flames and smoko. It is feared that the houses of Messrs Thompson, Bourke, and Rasmussen' will be destroyed, and Messrs Nelson’s and Mayo’s houses are in imminent peril. At the Golden Bar mines the situation is serious. Fisk’s boardinghouse and twenty whares belonging to battery employees are threatened. Mr and Mrs Cowling, while returning from Golden Bar in the Wakamarina road, were compelled to gallop their horses for half a mile through great heat and dense smoke. Extensive fires are also burning in the Rai valley. The mail coach from Blenheim to Nelson only just got through in time.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8356, 17 February 1913, Page 7
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131VALLEYS OF FIRE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8356, 17 February 1913, Page 7
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