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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires
15 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers
THE following telegrams shew that the destructive season has fully set in, and that it behaves persons travelling or living in the bush to be specially careful. In this district the long grass is simply waiting the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out shortly before 8 o'clock on the night of December G in the extensive oilcoth manufactory of Messrs. Kinder and Powell, Page's-walk, Bermondsey. The premises covered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ABOUT one o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, a destructive fire originated in the premises occupied of late by Mr. Hale, and formerly the business place of Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE meeting which was convened for Monday evening last by the Mayor for the purpose of considering the most expedient means of providing for the desideratum of a local fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Melville drew the attention of the Government to a letter which he had received, stating that for want of fires in the Bathurst schools the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Andrew Caldwell, insurance agent, pleaded guilty to over-filling himself, on the 20th inst., and then parading in Riddle-street. He was discharged with a caution to count…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE learn that Bell's Newrea Hotel, an old and established house on the Molong Wellington-road, three miles from Springs Station was burned to the ground on Friday of last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE learn that a disastrous fire occurred on Sunday night at Walla Walla, about ten miles from Forbes, by which the camp of Mr. Michael Clifford, tank sinker, two drays, four sets of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is reported that Hamilton's Hotel, at Cargo, was burned to the ground on Sunday last. The fire started between 4 and 5 in the morning, and the inmates only escaped partly dressed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST week it terrific bush fire, accompanied by by excessive wind and dust storm, occurred in the vicinity of Potts Hill. About 20 or 30 families, who wore living in tents, had their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN another column will be found Mr. Hamey's promised letter on the formation of a fire brigade in Molong. We have already referred to the subject two or three times, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,-While thanking you for the space afforded me in your valuable columns of last issue, I trust you will again grant me the same privilege this week on the above question. Having the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great bush fires are raging in Victoria. 17,000 acres of grass, have been, destroyed on Robinson's station, near Avoca,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two disastrous fires reported from United States. At Marble Head, a seaport township in Massachusetts Bay, the whole of the buildings of, a nine-acre. block were swept…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out in the Mercury office, Hobart, yesterday, and a quantity of type was destroyed before the flames, were extinguished…
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