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

Fires & bushfires, 1905

411 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 2 of 21

Fires at Carcoar. Carcoar

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 2

Bush fires continued to rage on every side of Carcoar yesterday. Shortly after 9 a.m. it was discovered that the Stoke Estate, situated about…

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Bush Fires

Leader · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 4

Mr J H Glasson, of Godolphin informs us that Messrs Webb, of the Springfield pastoral propertied estate, Byng, had a hard time with the fire…

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Burnt-out -Settlers’ Fund

Leader · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 2

The Mayor received last evening the following telegram :—“His Excellency Sir Harry Rawson desires me to convey his deep sympathy…

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Bush Fires. Wheat Destroyed. Between 50,000 AND 60,000 BAGS. Sydney

Leader · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 3

The railway department has received a telegram from the Superintendent at J[?] to the effect that on stations along the Corowa line it is roughly…

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Aid to Burnt-out Settlers Sydney

Leader · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 2

A public meeting was held today, the Lord Mayor presiding, at which it was resolved to raise funds in aid of the burnt-out settlers…

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Fires in Other Districts

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 10

The restricted limits of a journal such as this renders it quite impossible or us to adequately tell the tale of devastation which comes from other…

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The Heat Wave and the Fires. Brave Fights Against the Flames A Cool Change anil Welcome Rain

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 10

Residents in the town who have gazed on the great clouds of smoke which have been hanging over the hills for days, failed to realise that behind…

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Bush Fires

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2
Also in Molong Argus

Before you are burnt out by these awful fires insure your stacks and properties in the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co…

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The Bush Fires

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 3

The State has just passed through an experience which finds no parallel within the memory of any of its people. No one can recall such sustained heat,…

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Disastrous Bush Fires

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

Our district, daring the early part of the week, was the scene of the most disastrous bush fire ever known in this part. For miles and miles the…

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The Bush Fires. Officers Leave for the Country

Leader · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

The Premier was on Wednesday afternoon waited on by Messrs Waddell, Perry, Wood, Neilson, A. Kelly, J. Hurley, Burgess, Scobie,…

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The Terrible Bush Fires. Peril and Losses of Life

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 6

The home of Mr. Lenchan, a settler near Jindra, was consumed. Mrs. Lenchan was burnt to death. It is supposed she was fleeing from the fire. when she was caught…

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The Bush Fires. How They Were Caused. Rabbit Poisioning Blamed

National Advocate · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

A well known landholder in the Oberon and Jenolan districts, who was in Bathurst yesterday, gives a graphic description of the bush fires which…

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The Late Heat Wave. Further Reports of Bush Fires. Settlers' Heavy Losses

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 4

Practically the bush fires were over, as far as this district was concerned, on Tuesday evening. There was slight rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, but this had…

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Phosphorus and Fire

National Advocate · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

It will be noticed that at the meeting of the Bathurst Pastures and Protection Board yesterday not a word was uttered regarding the bush…

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The Fire Bell

National Advocate · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

The Secretary reported to the Progress Committee last night that a letter had been written to Captain Butcher asking him, when the fire bell was rung, to have the…

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Fire at Bathurst

Molong Argus · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 6

ON Sunday night afire occurred at "Llanarth," Bathurst, the residence of Mrs. John Smith. The fire brigade was called out, but…

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Byng. Destructive Fire

Leader · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 1

Our correspondent writes :— I am sorry to have to report almost destructive conflagration in our village, the house of Mrs Jeffery with all it…

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How Fires Originated. Evidence of an Eye- Witness

Leader · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

“Alderman A G Ralston, of the City Council, who has been staying with his family at Barradoo, was, he states a witness of the commencement…

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