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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
29 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
Details of the bush fires which began on Mount Wellington, Tasmania, on Friday week show that the devastation has been widespread. The flames, rushing down the valley towards the coast, swept…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strong gales in the Forty-mile Bush, Wellington, have fanned the bush fires into activity with disastrous results. The Sames are sweeping over a large tract of country…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Your readers are aware that in several districts in Victoria bush, fires have recently caused wide-spread desolation. In some places great difficulty was experienced in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HEARTRENDING reports of suffering and rain from bush fires comes from Warragul Victoria Scores of home steads have been razed to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE bush fires in Victoria and Tasmania will be numbered among the remarkable calamities of the year. The fires to which we are accustomed in our districts in dry seasons are of little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The heat wave settled down on Melbourne again on Tuesday, and the thermometer registered up to 103 in the shade. There is a most serious report from Foster, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An awful lynching affair, characterised by diabolical cruelty, is reported from Glendora, Missippi, says a New York dispatch, dated December 28. A negro, named Joe Hopkins,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dr. Harold Davis looled around with ill-concealed impatience at the chattering, well-dressed throng that filled Mrs. Norton's spacious rooms, and then he frowned slightly as if he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Table Mountain Scientific and Mutual Improvement Society members, according to Truthful James, were in the habit of following up their arguments with choice paloeoic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The alchemists of the Middle Ages believed that somewhere in the universe was to be found a universal solvent which would dissolve the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During a recent visit to the Fiji Islands, Dr. Hocken and Dr. Colquhoun, of Dunedin, were witnesses of the remarkable ceremony of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Thursday night, July 7, about 7 or 8 o'clock, a barn belonging to Mr. John C. Spickett at South Arm was burned, together with a quantity of maize, potatoes, etc.. etc…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Speaking at a meeting of the several Methodist denominations that was held the other day, the President of the Wesleyan Conference, a cultured man and an eloquent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE American wooden steamship Deleware, 1279 tans net, of Philadelphia. belonging to Messrs. W.P. Cylde and Co., was destroyed by fire on the night of July 7 when off New York. As…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Tuesday afternoon a house occupied by Mr. William Fitzhenry at Augowrie was burnt down and Mr. Fitzhenry's youngest child, aged about 12 months, burnt to death. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Vell, vell,' said Moses. 'Vell, vell, you are sharp, 'pon my vord you are' ' But you're a sharper, ain't you, Mr. Moses ?' said the managing clerk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A disastrous fire occurred at Redfern on Saturday afternoon. The fire broke out in George Hodson's timber yard. A strong westerly wind was blowing at the time, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 3.25 p.m. on Saturday, people in the western part of the city were startled by a great column of smoke that suddenly shot up at Redfern. In less than five minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire which took place in Redfern last Saturday afternoon was one of the largest that over occurred in thy metropolis, and it spread more rapidly than any previous fire. This rapid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Wednesday night a disastrous fire occurred at Lawrence, the premises occupied by Mr. Barry and Mr, Samuels being completely destroyed, The five was noticed about 2 a.m., in the…
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