Fire in Pilliga Scrub. Sydney
A big fife is raging through the Pillign scrub. The conflagration is miles wide, and spreading. The outbreak is some what of a calamity, as the forest is one…
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Fires & bushfires, 1922
401 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 19 of 21
Swept by Fire. Pilliga Scrub. Sydney
A big fire is raging through the Pilliga Scrub. The conflagration is miles wide and is spreading…
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A Cooamble message states the fire in the Pillige forest is still spreading defying all efforts of a small band of fighters. Already fifty thousand acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. Fire in Haymarket. Sydney
A serious fire was narrowly averted at the Town hall Coffee Palace, Haymarket, last night. But for the Strenuous efforts of the firemen the place would have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires. Started by Lightning. Sydney
A Dubbo message says scores, of fires have been started by lightning setting fire to grass. These, fanned by winds are laying waste considerable areas of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Maclean. Doctor's Surgery and Garage. Maclean, Friday night
The buildings used by Dr. H. Sinclair Fordyce as a surgery and motor garage adjoining his residence in River street, were completely gutted by fire to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams Fires at Carlton Cricket Ground. Melbourne
Two attempts were made yesterday evening to bum down the turnstiles and press box of the Carlton Cricket Ground, Melbourne…
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"The Times" Dublin correspondent states the newspapers are having a trying time. 'The Government has instituted censorship, while the rebels are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams Disastrous Bush Fire. Wagga
A disastrous fire broke out yesterday afternoon at Malebo, twelve miles from Wagga, and swept across several farms, doing much damage to standing crops,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Sydney. Blaze in Dalwood Chambers Sydney
The three top floors of the five-storied building known as Dalwood Chambers, in Stewart Lane, City, were gutted by fire last night. The two remaining floors were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Western Blaze. Great Forests on Fire. Residents Fighting the Flames. Coonamble
A terrific conflagration has developed along the western front of Pilliga State forest. Fires, which started at Dimby last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspicious Fire. Sydney
Detectives, who were placed on the inquiry relating to the suspicious side of a fire at Dalwood Chambers, Bathurst street, on Tuesday night, have detained a man…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Carelessness with Fire. Heavy Sentence Imposed. Young
At the Young Police Court, Peter McCullough was fined £20 or two months' gaol for carelessly lighting a fire near a standing crop. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires at Taree. Taree
Bush fires are raging in different parts of the Taree district. The State forests have all suffered considerably. The weather is threatening to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Henty. Sydney
A fire which started on the Henty racecourse spread rapidly and swept away standing crops and stacks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Detective's House on Fire. Sydney
The home of Detective' Clarke caught fire early this morning. All the front of the house burst out in flames, but the outbreak was extinguished before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another' Fire at Pentridge. Melbourne
Another fire, the third in three months, took plane at Pentridge gaol to-day, but was extinguished by the brigades in half an hour. Incendiarism is suspected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ferry Steamer on Fire. Sydney
With a full complement of passengers on board the ferry steamer Kangara caught fire in Mosman's Bay this afternoon. The roof and portion of the life…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire Town Wiped Out. Astoria (Oregon)
Thirty blocks of the business section of Astoria have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at fifteen million dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Fires Rebels Change Tactics Organised Incendiarism. London
Many Irish incendiary fires are reported, all of which between 9.8 and 9.25 p.m., and are clearly the result of organised operations…
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