BUSH FIRES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9075, 15 February 1908, Page 5

BUSH FIRES.

UP THE LINE. Press Association. Wanganui, February 15. Private reports received here Jstate that bush fires are raging disastrously in Eaetihi district. A clean sweep has been made of Mersou’s mill, timber stacks, shed and house. The fire is travelling along Raetihi-Pipiriki road, where twelve settlers have been burnt out of their houses, also losing considerable stock, no details of which are yet available. Raetihi is cut off from communication. The smoke from these fires spread all over the district Wanganui, forty miles away, was enveloped in a heavy pall.