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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
477 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 24
It is just a hundred years ago since Charles Darwin, in the British Navy sloop Beagle, fitted out for scientific exploration, visited Australia, engaged on his investigation, which led to his theory of the survival of the fittest, or natural selection, which was to "set the Thames on fire" on his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The army worms, which for the past few weeks have been destroying many acres of valuable grasslands and crops, are at last disappearing from some of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Roman Catholic School Hall, a large weatherboard building in Boston street, Moree, was destroyed by fire early last Saturday morning. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rivalling in severity the tragic fires of several years ago, a huge wall of flame, several miles in width, enveloped the tiny sawmilling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When a large boarding-house, near the railway station was destroyed by fire early this morning the proprietor, John Carroll, 76, was burnt to death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Found with about 2cwt. of coal in their possession and a roaring fire made with another half-hundredweight of coal close to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a collision with a tram pole at 4.30 a.m. last Saturday at South Geelong, a float carrying the racehorses, Flying Anton and Drivel, collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Making a plea that he had a large abscess on a tooth and that if he got cold in it serious complications would set in, one of two men who appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Passengers aboard the Trucolor, which is on fire in the North Pacific include L. E. Andrews. Deputy-Registrar of Hong Kong Supreme Court, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ida Heath, 35, was burned to death at her place of employment, Kingswood, to-day when petrol she was using to clean clothing exploded and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During a heavy rainstorm this afternoon there was an extraordinarily heavy peal of thunder, accompanied by a terrific explosion at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →About 12.30 a.m. on April 3, Mr. Herbert Cooke, fishing in the river near Kinchela (Macleay River), saw a blaze at the back of Mr. A. E. Dodds' barn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of the rare occasions that the Maclean Fire Brigade is called into activity for a fire occurred on Good Friday afternoon when there was small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →That greater efforts should be made in Australian schools to combat the country antagonism to trees and forests was the opinion expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The residence of Mr. J. J. Jacobs, manager of the Urunga Aborigines' Station, was destroyed by fire this morning. The house was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sensation was caused at the Dubbo aerodrome on Friday of last week, when an engine of W.A.S.P. Airlines' Monospar plane, Narromine Wasp, caught…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. F. Felsch, of Ulmarra, had a narrow escape from having his residence and its contents destroyed by fire at an early hour on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A weatherboard house of five rooms, the residence of Mr. J. J. Jacobs, manager of the aborigines station at Yellow Rock, near Urunga,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Arabs again attacked the Jewish quarters on the outskirts of Jaffa to-day, necessitating the police firing a fusillade, killing two and wounding 32…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Machinery and large stocks or timber valued at many thousands or pounds were destroyed about one o'clock this morning when Webber's…
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