Grass Fires in Canterbury.
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE
[By Telegraph.]
(Per Pns.s Axsoriatiou.) Chhistchcrcii, This day. A grass lire oh the Port hills turned out to he more serious than at first anticipated. It broke out afresh early yesterday and continued to burn furiously all day. It travelled six miles and devastated a tract of country fully two miles broad. A large number of sheep were burned and the loss of food is very serious, and there"is no prospect of the grass growing again until Spring. Large numbers of men were engaged all day yesterday protecting the houses in Heathcote Valley and Opawa at the foot of the hills, and although several residences had very narrow escapes none were destroyed. The lire is said to have originated through a party lighting a tire to cook a billy in the Cashmere Domain Hoards Plantation. The loss is not yet ascertained, but must have been very considerate. Twenty miles of fencing has been destroyed.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 217, 11 January 1897, Page 2
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