Serious Fires.
AUSTRALIAN LOSSES. Melbourne, February 2. Dawson and Sons’ ironmongery establishment at Ballarat was destroyed by fire. The damage is eslim ued at f 20,000. The building was insured with the New Zealand Insurance Company for /io,ooo. The stock was insured for /8000 wbh various Companies, the Colonial Mutual having a line of £4OOO. GREAT GRASS FIRES. EXCITEMENT IN SOUTH CANTERBURY. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. Ashburton, February 2. The largest grass fire of the season raged to-day in that treact of country lying between Hinds and Ealing, and from the railway line nearly to the sea. In its course from he railway to the sea the fire destroyed five thousand acres of pasture land, mostly tussock, and fences, a hundred-acre plantation, and the four-roomed cottage of Mr A, Pawsey, a farmer. Serious fires are also burning in other 1 parts of South Canterbury.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 11, 5 February 1907, Page 4
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142Serious Fires. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 11, 5 February 1907, Page 4
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