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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
311 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 16
The Army Medical Corps report shocking injuries from German contrivances for spraying petrol in the trenches. The features of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Russian fleet in the Black Sea has been sighted steaming in the direction of the Bosphorous. The French squadron has destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious busli fires are raging round Sydney, which are attributed to the record heat which has been obtaining within the metropolitan area…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A number of bush fires were reported in the metropolitan area yesterday. A fire at Junee destroyed several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The bush fires are still raging near Sydney and in many parts of the State, but the outbreaks are not so serious as on the previous days. The damage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Maitland telegram states that a big fire occurred north of Rothbury and destroyed nearly all the tents and huts in the pit paddock. The fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Desperate fighting continues on the eastern front. North of Pilica the Germans are throwing boiling pitch, or something…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A big fire occurred at Parkes on Sunday morning, twelve shops and offices in the heart of the town being destroyed. All the buildings except…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire at Parkes destroyed eight shops in the most central position in the town. The damage is estimated at £10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is officially announced that, as the Russians advanced on Memel, two regiments of the Landsturm defending the town were driven back and mingled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It would seem that our inner machinery, having no further use for this world, has found a quick affinity with a life that has its roots in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A German trawler fired on a Dutch steamer, which made off at full speed and escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Allied admirals have decided that special warships shall sweep the coastline of the Dardanelles yard by yard, owing to the danger from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Deputy Coroner, Mr. J. G. Phillips, J.P., opened an inquiry yesterday morning into the destruction, by fire, on March 25, of a barn and contents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday Mr. J. G. Phillips, Deputy Coroner, held an inquiry into the cause of the fire which destroyed a barn and contents at Entonsville on 25th ultime. The barn was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 1.5 a.m. on Good Friday the fire bell announced that there was an outbreak in town, which was found to be at the suwmilling establishment of Messrs. Fraser and Co. on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The old Caledonian sawmills, the property of Messrs. Fraser and Co., Ltd. were burnt to the ground at about 1 a.m. on Good Friday morning, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports from the Belgian frontier state that heavy naval gun fire has been heard from the direction of Zeebrugge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The adjourned enquiry into the cause of the fire which consumed the barn belonging to Patrick Morrissey (valued at £30) and the hay belonging to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire at Tamworth yesterday gutted the extensive store premises of P. G. Smith and Co. The damage is estimated at £25,000…
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