BUSH AND CRASS FIRES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13610, 18 January 1908, Page 5

BUSH AND CRASS FIRES.

Per Press Association; U. , . DA^TNEVIRKE; January 17. f - ' Tbe, .Stateß^nt that pe6pfe Vere cut; 1 Off by fire is 1 incorrect. Everyone got* away without, the slightest difficulty, after- burying their furniture in a~ trench. «It is reported that tho saws and belts , of the sawmills were. saved, w but Gainman Bros, lost 60,000 feet of - sawn timber, besides the millj< maohinely,»'.t»i4- Mmt ?' ' ■ jfIPAiLMEISsrON &, January 17. *-Jiep6rts from Pohangina to-day show absent .of wind yesterday and .light showers of rain during the night gneatjy- assisted to quell the fires in the Valley. Set^rs have been lessening jtho danger "6^ removing grassland logs from the vicinity of their houses and buildings^ . . /♦-»:■ E ? K!MA.ptJNA, January 17. « .The.windfljfts^night caused* th,e fires ftcsnepviiv* the ( district. They are most severe ait JHukanuij .wljero houses owned by J. Bond 1 and G. Turner, settlers', w.e*e cdmpletalv destroy^ oT|io » sejfctfer^ were Ifehtin^tho Barnes "all the ,niglit: J ,S,eyqral families moved ouij.of "i^htePfire^SKiriS^nd^Afftlie houses to take .their cli^ance. . Popplew ell's timber mill only saved by unremitting efforts of a large hand of workmen. Hundreds of 'acres of grass and fencing, were, de- : stroyed. . Ifr other "parts of the distript, setiters^ 'wei*e compelled 'to wprk\\»ll night 1 protecting their homos. There was a slight fall of rain after midnight, and *tHe>Wifid changing; reft ieved'A tho situation", "th6nglr the fires 'a^' still burning. '„»»>