FIRE IN TNE TALBOT DISTRICT.
For a pmage done by the bush fires that have jrses Iging around us since Tuesday last has been , beat. At M'Callum's Creek and Mount . dis- V* 1 t i e cro P s on several farms have been . •. _ -*lj burnt up, one farmer, aMr Eussell, 1^ I ] S ° n the creek, beiDg a loser of several )ll Ot c( j ppunda by the fire, as we were informed 1 r Jen day. Other farmers have lost a great deal by l his eally amounts to a great calamity. Nearly and iole of the country between the Pyrenees niles tallaarat presents evidence of a large con- i ving &>n having swept over it, and the amount t -day occasioned must in the aggregate reach a row. 'd* 1 % ur€ / On Wednesday evening, when I k u j c was at its height, a slight change of wind * ed, and the surrounding view was one of the £ ". extraordinary we ever witnessed. What « ,~fi h density of the atmosphere, the clouds of lead- ln d th e ] on g line of smoke arising from the lges, ires, and amalgamating with the dust, the 2 they j around appeared to be enveloped in a dense ct of Talbot Leader, January 2. (
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 20 January 1863, Page 3
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213FIRE IN TNE TALBOT DISTRICT. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 20 January 1863, Page 3
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