BUSH FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 314, 13 January 1908, Page 3

BUSH FIRES.

DAMAGE IN WAIOXE DISTRICT. Per Press Association. Dannevirke, Saturday Night. The Waione correspondent of the | Daily Press wires that great damage has been done bv the. hu*u lircs mi Friday night. Peck's loin-roomed house was destroyed. Early this morning the son of Jlv Mcllardy was awakened by the window of his room falling in, and Mr Mcllardy and family hail li) make a hasty retreat in their night clothes. The house, which contained seven rooms, was destroyed.

The hush (ires extend rigid, from Waione to Pongaroa, and it is dangerous I to travel in the district. Settlers round Waione township are lighting the fires. Carterton, Saturday. Bush (ires are still raging on the ranges. Considerable damage is reported. Hundreds of dead trout'float on the surface of the Maungaterere strcifm, presumably poisoned by the ashes falling into the stream. large grass tires swept along the ranges yesterday in tin; vicinity of Mount Ihddswnrth, doing .considerable damage. Long stretches of fencing were j burnt, and several sheds and outbuildings demolished. The country.is exceedingly ilry and parched, and'badly in need of rain.

Cisborne. Saturday. Grass and log fires are extending over a wide area of the country. The.y arc regarded with great satisfaction by settlers inland, as they do an amount of valuable clearing. The weather continues very hot. Eketahuna, Saturday. Log and grass fires have been raging for two days at Hastwell and Mantranialio. The creamery at Hastwell, which was untenanted, was burnt, besides several whares and outbuildings. An extenRive area of grass was Immed, and miles of fencing destroyed. One settler lost 100 sheep and 200 acres of grass. Unless rain comes soon, there will probably be other heavy losses.