Fires in the Bush.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 22 March 1904, Page 2

Fires in the Bush.

'niK lH'Jtxs AllorXI) 'fin,; -\[()['_x TAIN'. (1 or I'i>.ss Association). „ , . 11 A \\ j:i: A, March 21. Hush lires on I'Yiday spread fur 2(1 miles. 1 com tl„. Miuiaiai,, j (|t| .,. v .. ... -W.I, of Opanak' ('loir;/.',"' " c,, " , ' ,v ' l ; Al, iij/ri Iht Ino !"" ,lU ' J UVl '' a 'lee led. Manv > let's lost hay,slacks, sheds, etc.. inn onl,\ one ease of a house desl''u Vl . ( | reported. Stacks of wood, tVucand hundreds of acres gr ils .. Were destroyed, the damage air.oinu"'K to a tew thousands of pounds U)o wind blow with cyclonic force uiujniK rod-hot coals great dislan--1 , the fi|, « spread with alanong rapidity. At four o'clock on inday afternoon rain foil in torrents and subdued the (lames. This -ved he situation, otherwise, it is thought that every house in (] oountrys.de wot,ld have, been dostroyl!a"i caused the rivers to flood, ; a coup eof bridges were swop ; «».v, and lords became impassable I lie rivers rapidly subsided. I'nless "e """I rises again till danri r is now past. 1 A private telegram received yesterday from Jlr Soaiie, proprietor of the coach line from Kltham toOpunake. stated that no bridges had been mined, mid the coach was running as usual.