ROARING BUSH FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1038, 30 January 1911, Page 8

ROARING BUSH FIRES.

• 'JEOPARDY FOR A TIME." , > Last Friday and Saturday (writes the - Alfrcdton correspondent of the "Eketa- " • hu'na IJxpress") the fires which had been smouldering in tho Kaitawa were fanned by, the heavy - westerly gale which prevailed and ran right across, to the Pori, Bweepingeven'thingbefore them. Miles' of fencing have been demolished, it is net vet known'whether an£ stock have, been burnt.- Tho fire rapidly_ swept over Messrs. Hillas', 'Wilton's, Nelson's, Saunders s, and RaleighT properties. Messrs. Hillas and Wilson having a particularly anxious time. At ono time Mr. Wilson I despaired of saving .his house, when tho I' • wind lulled, which enabled him to re- ! double his efforts. Everything is now i .luiet, but there is no knowing when a j . heavy wind will a sain spring up. ' "Wo had a bush fire hero on Friday," I says tho To Pohue correspondent of the > ' Hawko's Bay "Herald," "which at ono ' time seemed likely to assnmo serious diI mensions. The undcrscrnb 011 the Fairi burn Timber Company's property caught,

and the firo spread very quickly. Three gangs of men were out all night working hard to save the mill, hauler, and tramline. Tho Rukumoana Station was also in jeopardy lor a time. Fortnnafcelv, however, a' change' in.' thb direction'of the wind, averted;* ; the< danger,' but not until a large portion *of: the green bush'had been burned. " * •' '"