BUSH FIRES.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright,
THOUSAND OP ACRES SWEPT,
HEAT WAVE UNABATED
SYDNEY, January 2.
News to hand show that destructive bush fires are raging in the Blue Mountains.
Thousand of acres Jiave beeri •jwept. The heat wave is unabated. A t Mertndie the thermometer registered 118 degrees, and at Murwillumbah 119 degrees. The latter place is surrounded by tfHah fires, which are racing in many districts. MELBOURNE, January 2. A bush fire started at Shepparton, but a man returning from a' factory succeeded in quenching it with tins of sour milk.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3083, 4 January 1909, Page 5
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97BUSH FIRES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3083, 4 January 1909, Page 5
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