DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT KYNBTON.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 20 January 1863, Page 3

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT KYNBTON.

5 neton 'and the surrounding district was, on rai " lesday visited by a fierce hot wind, which lated nted to a positive hurricane. The storm ' 'here it its height about 2 p.m. The smoke from ' .bove fires was seen scudding before the wind in ' ligKt is directions; indeed the town might be said j id a s surrounded by bush fires. " Several old . LdtKi ' s k sa .V t ua * i' ' W£iS the hottest and most dup J day they have known in this district since l . ined e ' e brated " Black Thursday." A bush fire j ' with great fury in the neighborhood of Bald ' ,- ' It ran rapidly along the fences, and the dry ' a < a * soon left bare M'Carthy's, Dalliston's, l r i" °} f s > Argyle's, and Halliday's paddocks, and day. considerable damage to the surrounding and especially those of Messrs Darby and Crawn as -the former losing four acres of very fine r the which had been reaped and stooked. Some 3 are c that no less than thirty acres of oats have any Jestroyed, others think this an exaggerated l one l ' e * r timothy M'Carthy's loss is estij^ at £150 ; for not only is his grass destroyed, reef- sraa^' ouse m tue pafModr, and some fifty .', f firewood, together with all the fences, have * l £ ° : otally-destroyed. The total loss from bush v &ed, urinpr the past fortnight, in this district, must t to. y considerable. We hear that Messrs Ewart . b the : Lepherdson's saw mills, Seven Mile Forest, 1: hich lestroyed by a bush fire on Wednesday. — c hear' ion Guardian, Jan. 3. *