THE BUSH FIRES.
CABLE NEWS.
V. i)iir.it Press Association— By E'ec :ic Telcgt\<i>h Copyright.
WIDESPREAD DEVAS-
TATION.
SETTLERS LOSE HEAVILY
"" THRILLING STORIES. NUMBERS OF SHEEP AND CATTLE DESTROYED. Received Ja ,uj y 6, 9.40 a.m. SYDNEY, January 6. Repoits from the fire swept districts disclose widespread devastation. • Settlers along the Hawkesbury Valley, the South Coast, and in the Hunter River districts are severe sufferers. Many lost their entire crops, and some their homesteads. Thrilling stories are told of narrow escapes and heroic rescue work in the pastoral districts. Besides many thousand acres of grass and crops, numbers of cattle and sheep perished, and the great heat wrought havoc amongst poultry.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3086, 7 January 1909, Page 5
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110THE BUSH FIRES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3086, 7 January 1909, Page 5
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