THE BUSH FIRES.
MELBOURNE, February 13. Tlie Government is supplying the immediate needs of sufferers by the bush fires, details ef which are slowly poming to hand'.,.. : In the Hamilton district sixty’ thousand acres of grass, many sheep, : and stacks and quantities of bagged grass have been burned, andm the Yea district two hundred square miles and over three thousand sheep. At Boggy ~ Creek f _. settlement, twelve out .of twenty, residences and- the post office, State school .’find creamery have been .deniolishffd. l The damage in the "Waugaratta district, where many settlers are homeless and much stock lost, is estir mated at between twenty and thousand pbiiffds.
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New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 55
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