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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
256 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 13
Dispatches from Lima (Peru) say that the strikers, who are rioting in Northern Peru, were fired on by the troops and several were killed. There…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The big store and premises of John Wheaton and Company at Eumungeric, and the whole of the stock were completely gutted by fire last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A destructive fire occurred in the central business block of Coraki this morning shortly after 2 o'clock. The outbreak started in the lower floor of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Friday night last an Overland car the property of Messrs. Fogarty and Co., of Coff's Harbor, was destroyed by fire on the Bellingen road, a couple of miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mystery surrounding the great bush fire in the Megalong Valley was solved today, when James Davies, 18 years of age, was charged at the Katoomba Court with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning Mrs. Hensworth, accompanied by her four children left her home in Louisa road. Balmain, for the purpose of being inoculated. A nurse-girl…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kuranda police have advised the Commissioner of Police that the early passenger train between Cairns and Herberton this morning caught fire. One…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bycroft's flour mill and biscuit factory were badly burnt by fire at Auckland, New zealand, to-day. Many thousand pounds worth of damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Deputy-Postmaster to-day received the following message from the postmaster at Cooktown:-- A disastrous fire occurred in the main…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 9 o'clock yesterday morning while the boys were away from home Mrs. Cormack, of Tullymorgan, took the opportunity of leaving the house to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out at Young and Marshall's timber yards, at Caulfield, Victoria. After a desperate fight the fire was got under, but not before thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A disastrous fire broke out, in a wheat stack at Mirool siding yesterday, when 75,000 bags of the 1916-17 wheat, valued at £36,000, was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The timely warning from the master of a ferry-boat meant preventing a serious outbreak of fire on the steamer Victoria, in Neutral Bay. The outbreak is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is reported that in the Otway forest fire in Victoria, 100 homesteads have been burnt, and about 500 persons are homeless. To make things worse it has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The [?] which raged in Beach forest, Victoria, on Saturday swept through Devondale. [?] Bay township was threatened, but the da[?] was aver[?]ed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terible fire swept through Otway Forest, Victoria, on Saturday. Two men named Clarkson and Richards, and a third a mill hand perished in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Thames Hotel, at Auckland, was partly destroyed by fire, an elderly man named William McGimm being suffocated in his bedroom. Other boarders had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire causing considerable damage, broke out in a warehouse used by Hales Limited, Re[?]by lane, Sydney. The flames had a good hold before the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An attempt to burn down the Gladstone (Q.) meatworks was frustrated by the night watchman on duty. Incendiarism is believed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Martin's machinery depot in Wellington was gutted by fire at 4 o'clock this morning, the whole of the contents being destroyed, including a number of harvesters…
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