BIG LOSS AT POHUL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 103, 24 January 1908, Page 7

BIG LOSS AT POHUL.

SAWMILL, COTTAGES, AND TIMBER GONE. ' , (uV .TELEGItAPH—rilpss ASSOCIATION.) ' 1

i.'"',. ' Napier,' January 23. v ,-Nows was received in town this afternoon' that tho bush fires at.Pohui had destroyed tlio Fairburn Timber Company's mill, to-, gethor with .about. £3000 worth .'of. stacked ' timber,;' iind : .three < cottages '. occupied by; Mossrs. Williams, Colvoy, and Simonsen/ T!ie fir'c"is still raging. . ■ ( ' > The mill, .timber, and cottages were insured iir tho .'riiceriix Offi for £3955, audi the ongiuo in tho United Office for £300.

.OUTBREAKS IN THE NORTH. 'COROMANDEL TIMBER RESERVES ■ i ' ' 7."" ' ABLAZE. , ' ' • J. (nXa wi^-pnraa''"association.} .. . Auckland,. January 23. 1 ■ A - fire,- -involving -lho- Rsngihau and Kapo«. wai blocks in the Coromandcl Peninsula, has been raging during the past week. Besides standing 'timber, some thousands of logs 1 have been either damaged or destroyed, whila timber in tho dams, and-workmen's, shanties has been swept away.;, Tho fire, which is the, largest of tho past ten years, involves some> square -miles-', of- practically uninhabited-u----rough country, and threatens, unless rain ] falls, to devastate a furthor area of valuable ,timber roserves. • FIRES IN SOUTHLAND. 1 SAWMILL BURNED. '' ' '; , , Invercarglll, January 23. Bush fires are burning at Waikaiva. It; is ; reported that 'the Waikaw'a Sawmillihg Company's (a Dnnedin syndicate) mill was burned down yesterday morning.. RAILWAY STATION BURNED, Timaru, January 23. ...'.Word has been received that tho Glenavj railway station was completely destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. , A north-west gale, was blowing-at tho time, and it was inipos- ' sible to. save anything. IN TARANAKI. (BT TEI.EGKAPII—SrECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) New Plymouth, January 23.No further damage from bush fires is repotted, the wind having fallen. Thero are indications of rain, which is much needed for the pastures, though the country ha! stuod lover three weeks' drought remarkablj well.