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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
324 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 17
Tremendous air activity prevails on all fronts. Machines, now reckoned in thousands where there were tens at the beginning of the war, suggest the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miss M. Bourchier, who keeps a confectioner's shop in Elizabeth-street, was awakened early this morning by a suffocating feeling, and found her room filled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire was discovered early on Saturday morning in Burton's building and timber yard, South Brisbane. Before the brigade arrived the flames had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire in Brisbane this morning practically destroyed the Catholic Apostolic Church. The brigades saved a large block of adjoining residences…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A French communique states:-- Enemy attacks or attempted attacks followed after very violent bombardments at many points in the sectors of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A despatch from Zurich states that street demonstrations have taken place in Warsaw as a protest against German arbitrariness, with the result that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twenty-nine bush fires are raging in California, many of which are believed to be incendiary. The Industrial Workers of the World are suspected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. C. Broadbent, from headquarters has been on a visit to the Grafton Fire Brigade Station, and has overhauled the electrical gear. In addition, he had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Defence states that information has been received that the 2nd Infantry Field Post Office was destroyed by shell fire on May 3…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Petrograd report says: It is becoming daily more apparent what a great part German bribery played in the recent revolt. When the occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A heavy bush fire raged on the lower end of Woodford Island, hear the quarry, yesterday afternoon, and being fanned by a strong breeze, had spread over a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Hotel, Murrurundi, was destroyed by fire, and the adjoining building also burnt to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Numerous grass fires have occurred in and around the town lately. A fire broke lout at Tuncester this afternoon, and rapidly: spread over an extensive area,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last night a fire broke out in the barn of Mr. Jim Davis, Cowper. The barn contained about 140 bags of corn and 25 bags of chaff, as well as some plough's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A serious case of fire started at Childers, Queensland, yesterday afternoon. It is estimated that already between £1500 and £2000 worth has been destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Renter's Pans correspondent, Saturday: A correspondent with the British at the front says, the gunfire in Flanders is the most appalling we ever heard. More…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters, Flanders, reported on July 31:-- So terrific is our artillerying that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports:--The enemy attacked in the neighborhood of Hollebeke, but were driven off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Waters' timber mills at Wollongong were practically destroyed by fire early this morning. The timber, which was covering, half an acre of ground, is still…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reuter learns of a disastrous fire at Salonika on August 18. The city in side the walls was half destroyed. There are 80,000 people homeless. The loss…
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