HEAT AND BUSH FIRES.
CROPS DESTROYED. MAN BURNED TO DEATH. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, December 22. A aevore heat wave prevails, and bush fires are raging im all directions. At Donald many acres of standing erope and 20,000 bags of wheat were burned. The total damage is estimated at £50,000. At Cobrnm 1000 bag* of wheat and 00 neres of barley were destroyed. At Charlton on old man named Steward, who entered a burnm; house to secure valuables, was burned to death. Reports iruiii other districts show that immense areas of srruss and many crops have been destroyed, and that a number of settlers have lost th-lr homos.
LOSSES IN THE RIVIERA. Sydney, December 22. Great destruction by bush fires is reported In lite Kivcnna district. Th» losses include much bagged tyheat. standing crops, and stock.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19091223.2.18
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 272, 23 December 1909, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
136HEAT AND BUSH FIRES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 272, 23 December 1909, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in