SERIOUS BUSH FIRES
IN THE MARLBOROUGH DISTRICT. ' (By Telegraph.—i're.is Association.) BLENHEIM, Last Night-. Bus!) fires are burning in various, parts of the Wakamarina, district., frantically the whole Valley is loped in flames and .smoke. It is feared that the houses of Messrs Thompson, Bourke, and Ba&* nmssen have been destroyed. Messrs. Nelson and Mayo's houses are in imminent peril. At Golden Bar, the .situation is serious. Fisk's boardingboii.se, and 20 wharves belonging to battery employees, are threatened. Mr and Mrs Cowling, while return-., iug from Golden Bar, along the* Wakamarina road, were compelled to gallop their horses for .half a milo through the lieat and dense smoke. A dense fire lis also burning in the>. Rai Valley. ''Hie mail coach from Blenheim to Nelson only got through in time.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 February 1913, Page 4
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129SERIOUS BUSH FIRES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 February 1913, Page 4
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