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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7705, 6 January 1905, Page 3

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Kfpryflna PARTICULARS OF LOSSES IN HEW SOUTH WALES, ReM for Sufferers. SYDNEY, Jan. 5. V The Government has instructed of- - ficials in the country to give with- ' K out restraint relief, in the shape of fpod, clothes, shelter, to sufferers by : bush fires. The Premier stated 1 y tha lso long as a penny remained in ■K the Treasury no one would be allow- 1 ed to suffer from the disaster. The ■ L railways are carrying stock from the ! Bf burnt districts at reduced rates, t It-is estimated £IOO,OOO will not j »the losses by the fires in tho ! district. ' - Round Katoomba an area of twen- ' Hty miles was swept, the farmers : BpL being completely burned out. Ward ] lost their wool shed and wool, 8000 sheep, and 200 cattle. McKil- J ■S lop's wool shed went, with 250 sheep. Bhv At Hillgrove 20,000 acres was ! ■gP- swept. Small settlers are suffering ' ■ggl extensively in the Corowa, Culcairn Hh apd Germanton districts. Farmers 5 BJv on the half principle are amongst ] E& the worst sufferers. Goodwin lust : acnes, of crop, Clifton 2tJO acres, ' BpfConnell 400 acres of wheat, Brown 500 bags, Pilkington 150 bags and BPT 100 acres of crop, Edol forty acres, K' ■5, BZjttSd cattle, Keene 300 bags of wheat Kg and 250 acres of crop, and the Ken- ■£. tuck}' station over 1000 sheep. BSr." At Culcairn the Kcandeen station ] ■jp-- lost 15,000 acres of grass and 2000 Bb bags of wheat, Griffith 4000 bugs of 1 ' wheat and 300 cattle, Cotterell and Odewalin each 200 bags of wheat, ' Kinross station 70,000 acres of Higgins lost his machinery, crop and 40-sheep. Hundreds all over the country sus■g? fIAYO€ IN VICTORIA. ■ft 1 LARGE AREAS SWEPT. . MELBOURNE, Jan. 5. ■' Bush fires at Bethangra destroyed Bl: ap.ooo acres of grjiss. At Yea over BK, a thousand sheep were burned, and Bp *at Ruahworth several dwellings. Ejj;, jiouml Tallangatta and Glenrowan large areas were swept and two perB&f" sons were severely burned. Bain has Rr now extinguished the fires. Twcntyper cent, of the raisin crop in Wm the Mitdura district has been de- * stroyed. I LATER PARTICULARS. OUTBREAKS IN SOME I DISTRICTS, ! ''f; SYDNEY, Jan. D. fit Rain, mosflly light, though heavy i« ' - a few cases, hais spread over the J whole State (excepting in the north- 1 ■ east) right to the Queensland bor- < Hinder. The district inspector reports ■ the wheat losses in the Corowa . district are estimated at a quarter I p of a million bushels. < Several more deaths from heat * r ~ apoplexy are reported. < : (Received Jan. 6, 0.36 a.m.) 1 ■' SYDNEY, Jan. 5. ] Fresh outbreaks of the bush fires are reported at Hillgrove, and are sard to be spreading extensively, r At Bega a family named Milliner ' took refuge in a water hole, and ' ddjris floating on the surface of the water badly burned Mr Milliner and one cVld, who succumbed, i A large area of the surrounding distinct has been devastated, and many of the farmers have lost everything. Much of the stock,- which, *with the people, crowded into dams and waterholeq, was roasted alive. : Binalong reports that on the He's. naeoine estate-40,000 acres of grass were destroyed, and large numbers 1 . of settlers had holdings swept. Several lost their Houses, and many 1 haystacks, \atJv-i n uch maehi- ' p *»ry and other property, wera burnt. N Singleton reports that a vast area rte swept, and that scores of settors lost ftll their grass and crops', and some houses, while many anfr- ■ mate were burned. There were numerous narrow escapes from death. The Mayor of Wellington is calling • a meeting to consider th& question of raising a fund for the relief of sufferers by the Australian bush < fires.