Flood and Fire. a Reminiscence of the Clarence
MR. FRANK T. BULLEN, whoso works on seafaring life have recently excited the greatest interest in literary circles, has lately published a capital volume…
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Fires & bushfires, 1900
58 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 3
Second Contingent. Attempt to Fire a Transport. Brisbane
A DELIBERATE attempt was made last night to set fire to the transport Maori King, which is to convey the second contingent to South Africa, Naturally,…
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A DELIBERATE attempt was made last night to set fire to the transport Maori King, which is to convey tho second contingent to South Africa. Naturally, when news of the dastardly…
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SERGEANT WILLIAMS writing from Arundel Camp on December 27 1899 says : -- Oil Monday we had orders to entrain for the front, and after leading our horses down…
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A telegram from Warrnambool states the most calamitous bush fires in the Western district for 50 years broke ont on Saturday, continued over Sunday, and burnt till the early hours of Monday…
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As the Kallatina laid at her mooring at the Co's. wharf, Kemp-street, Grafton, a fire broke out, doing considerable damage. It would appear that about 10 minutes to 1 o'clock on Tuesday…
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A FIRE, which was attended by serious consequences, occurred on the steamer Kallatina, lying at the South Grafton wharf, early on Tuesday morning. The fire originated in one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Fire Brigade
Every Friday evening the members of the Sydney Fire Brigade are drilled in the Central Station, in Castlereagh-street, and cards of admission can be obtained by any respectable person from the…
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During an alleged quarrel in a boarding house at Spring Hill, Brisbane, last night, a man named J. Hill threw a stone jug at one Edward Bone, striking him on the cheek…
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BUSH fires are raging with terrific fury in Gippsland and other Victorian districts. Several lives are reported to be lost, and many miraculous escapes are reported…
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BUSH fires are raging in Gippsland and other Victorian districts. Farmers and Bottlers have been burnt out, buildings consumed and miles of grass and…
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Sensational incidents are coming to hand in connection with the bush fires raging in various parts of Victoria. Gippsland is the centre of the worst patch. It was a terrible fire, which swept…
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SENSATIONAL incidents are coming to hand in connection with the bush fires raging in various parts of Victoria. Gippsland is the centre of the worst patch…
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RAIN has stayed the bush fires which raged in Victoria last week. It is hard to realise the conditions under which the fires could have swept such large tracts of country, destroying…
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THE London DAILY TELEGRAPH, February 23, says :--"Throughout yesterday there was the keenest anxiety to ascertain the course of events in the Orange Free State,…
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ON Monday evening a large number of people gathered around the green at the Commercial hotel, Maclean, to witness a test of a patent fire extinguisher by Mr. Betts. The…
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The destruction to property by the fire at J. R. Love and Co.'s tea warehouse was enormous. There being a strong westerly wind blowing, which made it impossible to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Letter from the Front. Mr. Walter Oakes' Experiences. an Interesting and Chatty Letter. Privations of the Troops. Australians Under Fire
WRITING from Bloemfontein, South Africa, to the proprietor of this journal Private W. E. Oakes, of the second New South Wales contingent, gives some very interesting details of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rendering Woodwork Fire-Proof
IT is said (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN) that wood work may be rendered highly fireproof by applying two or three coats of a solution of one part silicate of soda and three parts water, thus…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fires in Canada. Damage, Twenty Million Dollars London
GREAT fires are raging at Hull and Ottawa, Canada. The damage is estimated at from ten to twenty million dollars…
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