THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES.
■■■•■• "-.-*■ . y- ' . ■■•' ■ -.•■ ■ The aw Eul» visitation of- fire which, has swept portions of the Australian states constitutes a terrible calamity, and the (people df New Zealand, will extend to 'their f elldw-settlers in the Commonwealth their warmest sympathy. The cabled accounts of the disaster make heart rending reading, A number of lives have been lost; thousands. and thousands of stock have been destroyed ; and thousands of miles of country have been swept bare of grass. It face of this r it is not sucprising^to find that many settlers' have been completely ruined. Already relief funds have been inaugurated in Aiistralia, and we have no doubt that if it is required, the of > the!" colony,. will be -pnlyjoa pleased to sliow their sympathy in a practical manner.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1905, Page 4
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129THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES. Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1905, Page 4
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