BUSH AND GRASS FIRES.
Ter l'rcss Association, •Wellington, Saturday, A local insurance manager estimates that already live hundred settlers have been burned out by the bush fires. • for some weeks past Wellington has been enveloped in a pall of smoke except when a southerly wind has been blowing. The fire has now got into the last remnant of bush left round the harbor. For several days the smoke has been so thick that navigation has been renderod liillicult. ~.,.,*. Feildin'g, Saturday. The whole of the district between liimgiwahia 'and Kawhatau is being swept by fires. Rangiwahia township' is in danger.
Tliere is a serious shortage of water everywhere. Fences have been destroyed in all directions, and stock has wandered at large. Some most valuable scenery has been destroyed. The strenuous efforts of the settlers ami their neighbors have saved the homesteads in most cases; but the end is not yet.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 55, 24 February 1908, Page 2
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149BUSH AND GRASS FIRES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 55, 24 February 1908, Page 2
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