Thousands of Sheep Roasted.
(Received December 27, 9.59 p.m.) s , .-•• Sydney, This dayThe IJord Mayor has convened a meeting to-day to inaugurate a fund for the. relief of .sufferers by the firei^ - The newspapers have opened funds. * ...■'.■ As communication is . restored, and details trickle in, they show, both as regards the extent of country affected and the 1 amount' of", damage,' the fires > are the most sßriouse.TQr. experienced in the State. Whole districts have been' swept hare} tfnd; hundreds 6 £ settlers are . completely ruined. _ -, \ A still larger number.', are seriously rcrippled:^ '■; v Besides many thousands 'of sheep and other stock roasted to death, large numbers ha,ye beeii: badly scorched, and their sufferings are described as pitiable.' ' Gundagaijcepbrts state! that when the rain camfe * on 1 ajohday night the 1 people Wept to be^ fP r . t ne fi^t time since Eriday. The / spread of , the fire -was checked, though limber and fencing are still smouldering. •• •
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Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1905, Page 5
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155Thousands of Sheep Roasted. Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1905, Page 5
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