FIRES AT SMYTHESDALE.
°K tis scarcely an exaggeration to say that tor 3 % rlv a week the whole country around Smythcsbx » has been on fire. • Yesterday, however, there wifl ft great increase in the number and fierceness >o\ ie bush fires. During the whole day the heat r<J intense, and clouds of smoke occasionally T^S foped the town. From time to time reports -* c brought in of fierce fires in various directions, an £ such" reports were not required, as flaino and ~ n ! !C smoke could bo seen rising from the woods iver yliand. At Black Hill there was a brisk '°*? quick-spreading fire on Tuesday,, which in***s id the Chinese settlement there, and forced the wii lese to retreat prccipatately. — Grenville Adto - ;: ; January 1:
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 20 January 1863, Page 3
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123FIRES AT SMYTHESDALE. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 20 January 1863, Page 3
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