A SENSATIONAL JOURNEY.
Dubing the bush fires iv, Australia, themail driver between Nellingen and Braidwood m New South Wales, had a most sensational experience. While he was coming up tho Clyde Moun taina the scrub caught fire on either side of a narrow bush track, and as it was impossible for him to turn his horses, he had to face the flames from blazing timber. He drove at break-neck speed down gullies and along the track. On several occasions tlio mail bags and luggage became ignited, bat he stifled the flames. When at last he reached Braidwood the hair ou the horses' backs was singed off and his clothes were scorched almost to tinder. A house m the Hawkesbury district, of which a young married lady with, several small children and a young girl were temporarily the only occupants, was threatened by an approaching bush fire. The youDg ladies, however, v»ith admirable presence of mind, put into immediate practice a cu-tom of the Red Indians when hreatened by a pTaixie five. They set fire to | the grass close round the house, and the flames died out when they reached this blackened ring.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 230, 2 October 1895, Page 4
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192A SENSATIONAL JOURNEY. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 230, 2 October 1895, Page 4
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