HEAT AND BUSH FIRES.
IN NEW" SOUTH WALES. By Cable—Press A>soeialion—Copyright. Received 2G, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, January 20. Bush fires, due to the heat, and fanned by hot westerlies, occurred in the outer suburbs yesterday. The chief scene of the fire was at Hornsby, where St. Peter's Church and five cottages were destroyed. During the day sixteen localities reported outbreaks. The highest temperature in the shade was recorded yesterday, nearly a hundred degrees. At five o'clock a cool southerly wind sprang up. and the temperature dropped to 74 degrees.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19130127.2.28
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 212, 27 January 1913, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
89HEAT AND BUSH FIRES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 212, 27 January 1913, Page 5
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