INTENSE HBAT.
GRASS AND BUSH FIRES. STATIONS DEVASTATED. [Special to Press Association.'! SYDNEY, Dec. 13. Tho intense heat which has been exnerionced throughout the Colony for some days past Las been followed by very large grass and bash fires in the interior. By nig a station, Naxraadeva district (about 350 milaa south-west from Sydney), has been swept by a bush fire. Ninety thousand acres were devastated at the end of last week. The fire extended over an area of forty miles, and unless rain fails, the flames will sweep tho country north to the Lachlan River. Mursll Creek Station lost all its grass and buildings, with the exception of the homestead, and one selector lost fifteen ixundred sheep at Corse Station. In Jeriiderio Station, about sixty miles south from Narrandora, over seventy thousand acres have been laid waste by the fire.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10220, 14 December 1893, Page 5
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