BUSH FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 313, 11 January 1908, Page 2

BUSH FIRES.

v FINE BUSH FIKED. Per Press Association. Gore, Last Night. Word hae come to hand that the Waikain bush, alwut thirty miles above the township of Waikaia, has been on lire for over a week. The lire is supposed to have originated through a person carelessly throwing a lighted match I amongst Bome dead manuka. The bush carries a lot of fine timber, birch of particularly durable quality being plentiful, and it only awaited railway facilities to make it extensively used. The fire has burnt back into the heart of the bush, and unless rain comes, which docs not at present appear probable, the bush will be completely destroyed. FIVE IRISHMEN SUSSING. Per Press Association.

Invercargill, Last Night. The Southland Times' Otntitati correspondent rejmrts extensive fires in the Longwood bush. Five bushmen working in Harrington's reserve have been cut ofT from their huts by the burning of I the bush tramways. It is hoped that they will make their way out by Merrivnle, but there is a fire in the bush on the side, which may complicate matters. FIRES IN WAIRAU. Blenheim, Friday. A large grass lire broke out last niirlit on the Bankhottsc run, Wairan Vallev, and swept about 2500 acres. The flames destroyed the station stables and outbuildings. 'Portions of a valuable plantation were destroyed, and several telegraph poles burned. No stock is thought to have been lost. The Waihopai river flat was also cleared of gorse and briar. On the whole the effect of the burn is rather good than had. _. , , Another fire occurred at Riverlanrts. j It was extinguished during the afternoon.