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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
706 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 36
Damage estimated at £120,000 was done by a fire which this morning destroyed the State joinery works and Messrs. Hancock and Gore's sawmills at Ipswich road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burglars are believed to have been responsible for a fire which broke out in the fancy goods shop occupied by Mrs. Collins at Chatswood. The lady said she…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspicious circumstances surround a fire which broke out in a pastrycook's shop owned by William Powe at Summer Hill last night. Some pedestrians noticed a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to storms sweeping the entire coast of the Janan Sea yesterday, over one hundred fishermen are reported missing. The local authorities at Maizuru assisted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three lives have been lost, many persons have been injured, and heavy property damage has been caused by forest fires which are raging over considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An extraordinary story comes from Bombay. A Burmese fakir at Karachi has been demonstrating his ability to walk barefooted on burning coals…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A laryge Mohammedan crowd gathered in Zakaria street, the scene of furious fighting in the late riots, and commenced stoning the vehicular traffic, injuring some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three thousand acres were swept by a bush fire which broke out near Tarban. The fire was thought to be under, control last night, but a westerly wind…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dense smoke, which enveloped a laneway, was the first intimation of a fire which broke out in Boomerang tea and luncheon rooms in Hosking Place shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Tallangatta Police Court, William Collins was fined £50, with £66 costs, for lighting a fire within half a mile of Tatonga timber reserve…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Saturday night last the residence of Mr. Clugston, situated on the Myocum road, Byron Bay, was, with its contents, totally destroyed by fire. It was a large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The timely action of two special service firemen saved Melbourne Exhibition Building from complete destruction by fire last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The timely action of two special service firemen saved Melbourne Exhibition Building from complete destruction by fire last night. When the brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The secretary of the Fire Underwriters Association of Victoria states that the total amount of insurance paid in respect of recent bush fires in Noojee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Grafton and South Grafton Fire Brigades have both sold out of tickets in Fire Brigades Art Union, £200 worth having been sold by the members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Indian motor cycle on which Mr. W. Lynn, jun., was competing in the reliability test took fire when being filled with petrol at Lynn Bros. bowser,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six million barrels of oil were threatened when lightning started a fire at an oil reservoir containing 400,000 barrels of oil on the storage farm of the Standard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. P. A. Tuck, Divisional Inspector of Fire Brigades, who came to Dorrigo on Wednesday to inquire into the proposal to establish a fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damage, estimated at £10,000, was done by a fire which broke out early this morning in the premises of Evans Bros., lime merchants, South Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. F. A. Tuck, Divisional Inspector of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades, Newcastle, paid an official visit to Dorrigo on Wednesday to inquire into the…
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