BUSH FIRES.
NWRA'S STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. HEAT -WAVE. (BY TBfcEOBiPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFTBWOT.) (Rec. January 4, 11.35 p.m.) Sydnoy, January 4. Tho hot weather still prevails in the country. A great fire threatened Nowra, but tho townspeople turned out and succeedod in saving the town. ■ ■ The country round; about has,. • however, been devastated. RECORD HEAT. Sydney, January 4. Only on five occasions in fifty years has Sydney oxporienced heat like that oi yesterday. The heat in Bourke was the greatest for' thirty years. ' * (Rec. January 5, 0.30 a.m.) Sydney, January 4. The telegraph service is disarranged owing to the bush fires.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 5
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