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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
303 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 16
The French Minister of Marine reports that experts who examined the L'Atlantique, are unable to decide the cause of the fire. The Minister received a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is estimated that the fires which ravaged the districts between Newcastle and Wyong on Wednesday did damage amounting to almost £10,000. Thanks to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hearing screams in a house in Chapel street, Fitzroy, early to-day, neighbors rushed in and found the tenant, Martha Blight (30), lying on the floor. Her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spreading to stocks of oil and chemicals, a fire which broke out this morning at the factory of J. Mason and Sons, Rose Bay, occupied the attention of the fire brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Carrying a valuable cargo of wheat, flour and general cargo, including 15,000 bales of wool, which were alone valued at £150,000, the Norweigian, motor ship,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wireless telephony from an Air Force plane was used for the first time in history to-day in connection with fire fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A visiting motorist was surprised to discover the Little Murray bridge, on the Tyringham road, on fire whilst travelling through from Armidale the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The jury returned a verdict that Samuel Furnace committed suicide by taking spirits of salts. A statement by Furnace after his arrest was read in which he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A visiting motorist was surprised to discover the Little Murray Bridge, on the Grafton Dorrigo road, on fire whilst travelling through from Armidale to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is something peculiarly terrifying about disaster at sea, where men have nothing but their own frail strength with which to fight the power of hurricane of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The statement that the sun's rays shining through a window twice set a Queensland school on fire last week leads an expert to observe that "if…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nine Communists were killed, and injured, in a clash with police during an anti-Socialist meeting, in a crowded beer hall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A verdict that the fire which destroyed a shed and damaged a weatherboard cottage at East Hills, on December 8, had been accidentally caused, was returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lismore fire brigade, with a man tapped in three places, fought tenaciously a blaze which threatened to sweep away the whole of an old block of trading…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Returning a verdict that the fire which occurred at a shop at Auburn on December 18 was caused by burglars, either maliciously or accidentally, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquiry was held at Lismore to-day into the fire which occurred in a cottage occupied by John Herbert Harris on December 31 last Harris was present at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fourteen times during the last eight weeks the Brisbane Fire Brigade was called out by malicious false alarms, and when the firemen arrived at the vicinity…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Geo. Pullen writes:— I notice that a suggestion has been made in the shire council to take the money that is held in trust in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At an inquiry at Alpha (Q.) to a fire which destroyed the talking equipment at the Alpha Picture Theatre recently an expert, giving evidence stated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. H, Ford, of Yamba, while at Middle Creek building a house for his son, had the misfortune to lose his ten and contents by fire. Part of Mr. Ford's…
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