BIG BUSH FIRES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9001, 25 January 1906, Page 5

BIG BUSH FIRES.

STILL KAGING IN NEW SOUTH WALES

GREAT DESTRUCIxON OF PEOPERTY

EEFUGING IN A TANK.

GIRLS ARRESTED FOR STARTING

THE FIRE.

[PSDSS ABBOOIATTOK.I (Received January 25, 1.10 a.m.)

SYDNEY, January 25.

The heat m the country is terrific. Bush fires are still raging in the Condobolin district.

Great damage has been, done at Hallinga station, which lost twenty thousand acres of grass.

A father and two sons, going for assistance to the neighbors, rode for their lives ahead of a wall of fire for seven miles. They found a tank and took refuge in the water for five hours.

Two girls, the eldest of whom 1& 13, have been arrested for starting this fire. The parents have also been arrested for aiding and abetting their children-.

SIX CHILDREN PERISH.

OTHERS^REPORTED MISSING.

(Received January 25, 1.10 aim*)"" 1 ■MELBOURNE, January 25.

Six children perished in the bush fire at •Mount Fatigue, Gippsland. Others are fmjfafpg. ' • \ • Thera are no particulars. 'i -c