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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
337 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 17
One of the largest fires seen at Byron Bay destroyed G. F. Gibson's store at the corner of Johnson and Shirley streets. It was the largest general store in the town…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Crown will not file a bill against Edgar Athelstan Molesworth, 40, consulting engineer, who was committed for trial at Hornsby recently on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CLEVELAND (Ohio), Tuesday. Eight were killed, and two are missing, following the explosion and fire which Swept a city block of flats early…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About midnight a watchman informed the police that he had seen a man leaving tho premises of the New South Wales Wool and Felt Industries, Ltd., of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A woman's dream of fire and her ultimate escape from a burning building was the strange feature of an outbreak of fire at 300 Dalby street, Cook's Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mystery of an explosion which awakened many residents of Murwillumbah on the morning of Monday, May 30, and which seemed to come from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The officer in charge of the Fire Station wishes to bring to the notice of organisers of balls, socials, etc., the Theatre and Public Halls Act. The Act states…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Constable Martin, of West Wallsend, had a narrow escape when his launch caught fire on Cockle Creek. After an unavailing attempt to quell the flames,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An outbreak of fire, alleged to be a case of incendiarism, occurred in a sugar cane crop on the farm of Mr. Ross Anderson, at Warregah Island, on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is reported that while a prisoner was exercising in the yard at Long Bay gaol waiting to be attended to by the barber he lit a cigarette, and refused to put it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When a gang of cracksmen blew open the strongroom in the office adjoining the Commonwealth Oxygen Accessories Ltd. factory in Clyde street, Broad meadow,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early on Tuesday afternoon a fire broke out in the stage of the Trades Hall theatre at Rockhampton. The promot arrival of the fire brigade prevented the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An examination of a cottage in Manning street, Rozelle, after a fire had been put out by the brigade, revealed piles of kindling wood and kerosene-soaked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When a fire at Randwick destroyed a five[?] weatherboard cottage this morning, the occupants. Mr. and Mrs. dolph Leaper, would have been burned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After inquiring into the fire which damaged a cottage at Rozelle on Friday night the police arrested the woman tenaat and charged her with arson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tugun Seaside Hotel and contents were completely destroyed by fire early to-day. The building was a two-storey one of composite…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Perhaps it was too much to expect Crawford to defeat such a fire-eating hitter as the American Vines at the top of his form, but nobody was prepared for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, a young Scottish couple, who have Mr. E. W. Gess' farm at Rocky Creek, Dorrigo, on lease, lost the whole of their furniture and personal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire was discovered among the cornsacks and bags of linseed when the hatch on the steamer Querimba, 7769 tons, was opened on the vessel's arrival in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With commendable promptitude (says the "Post Magazine arid Insurance Monitor"), the Sea Insurance Company dispatched on the same day that the loss…
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