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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1900

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Another Fire Near Forbes. Forbes

National Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 3

A wooden cottage property occupied by John Kelly, at Deep Shaft, has been totally destroyed by fire. The occupant was down town at the time. The origin…

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To-Day's Telegrams. Another Fire at Forbes. Forues

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 3

Another fire occurred on Saturday night at about 10 o'olook, when a four-roomed cottage, owned by Mr. J. Kelly, was completely destroyed at Forbes. The building…

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Free Staters Surrender. Vacating Arundel and Bloemfontein. Roers Fire Upon Their Colleagues. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 2

The Free Staters are surrendering Arundel, and are also preparing to leave Bloemfontein, many of them going to Pretoria…

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A Big Bush Fire. Sydney

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 11 January 1900 · page 3

At Eden Valley (S.A.) 50 square miles of country have been devastated by a bush fire…

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Fatal Fire in New York. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 11 January 1900 · page 3

During a fire in the residence of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, editor of tho Now York World," the housekeepers and the governess were killed, but the children were…

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The Coomoo Coomoo Fire

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 17

In the destructive fire at Mr. J. Allison, jun's., homestead, between £800 and £900 worth of jewellery was destroyed, including Mrs…

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The World a Fatal Fire. London

National Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1900 · page 3

The house of Mr, J. Pulitzer, New York, was burnt to the ground. Two of, the inmates perished. [Mr. Pulitzer is the proprietor of the New York" World."]…

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The New South Wales Lancers. Their Baptism of Fire

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 15 January 1900 · page 3

The Evening News special war correspondent in a graphics account of the fighting at Modder .River, refers to the New South Wales Lancers, who were there engaged, as…

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A Lewis-street Fire

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

Just at 2 o'clock on Friday the alarm of fire was raised by the clanging of the bell. The conflagration was in a slab cottage…

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The Vale of Clwydd Mine. the Fire Extinguished

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

The opening-up operations at the Yale of Clwydd colliery were continued on Friday morning. After some tests had been made in order to determine if there was had air in the mine, the…

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‘ LEADERETTES.” Country Fire

Leader · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 6

News reached town last Monday evening of a fire at Mr. French’s (Shadforth), which burned his stable to the ground. “We understand stand that the contents of tho shed were…

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Heavy Artillery Fire. LONDON

National Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1900 · page 2

The "Times" correspondent telegraphs that very heavy artillery firing was heard on Monday, in the direction of Springfield, to the South of…

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How Ladysmith is Surrounded. a Circle of Fire

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 18 January 1900 · page 3

Mr. W. P. Mitchell, a telegraphist, who spent November in Ladysmith, succeeded in making his way through the Boer lines. Ha has supplied the Natal papers with some…

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Fire in a Coalmine a Sensational Development. Lithgow

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 18 January 1900 · page 2

The Vale of Clwydd mine, which took fire some months ago, and had to be sealed up, has been opened, and the fire found to be extinguished. The manager (Mr Broughall)…

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On the Natal Side. Heavy Artillery Fire Heard. in the Vicinity of Springfield. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 18 January 1900 · page 2

The Times war correspondent at the front reports that very heavy artillery firing was heard on Monday in tho vicinity of Springfield…

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Fire at Burly Jacky

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 5

A FIRE broke out on Tuesday at Burly Jucky, Wangoola, Mr. Whitney's Estate, and up to going to Press had not been completely subdued…

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Fire! Mudgee's Great Danger. A Church Street Outbreak. The Equipment of the Brigade

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 14

Shortly after 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, the fire bell again clanged forth its alarm. It is not much of a clang which the Mudgee…

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The Mudgee Fire Brigade. Suggestion for its Organisation

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 3

The two recent alarms of fire have brought before the public one or two defects in the organization of the Mudgee Fire Brigade. We…

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Bush Fires

Leader · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 7

Year after year the same tale is told of destruction of formers' crops by fire. Experience does not teach them to make fire breaks. It is hard to help men who will not…

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Bush Fires in Victoria

National Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 2

The heat wave which is passing over Victoria this week is responsible for the renewed outbreak of bush flies. Telegrams show that in districts round about Sunbury,…

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