GREYTOWN NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7678, 30 January 1904, Page 6

GREYTOWN NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The settlers around Papawai and Morrison's Bush had rather an exciting time on Friday afternoon, owing to bush fires. The wind about midday goo up and carried the fire for a distance of several miles, and owing to the sparks flying around the stacks and houses the residents sent out for the fire engine and they were fighting it till evening when the wind lulled, but a number were up all night watching. In the neighbourhood of Kemp torn Bush the fire was also raging all the afternoon, and gave the residents in that district an anxious time. At Taurenekau, on Thursday afternoon and evening, grass fires were in evidence, and Mr Wilkinson lost several stacks of oats. A very large area of grass was also destroyed. The whole of the district is surrounded by smoke. The Presbyterian Sunday School held a very successfuil picnic in the Recreation Reserve, on Thursday. Mr Alfred Beard, son of the late Mr J. Beard, passed away at the Greytown Hospital, on Friday, from the effects of typhoid fever. He was 41 years of age, and was highly respected by all.