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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
288 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 15
Approximately £180,000,000 of British capital is invested in Shanghai, and it is estimated that the fire damage to British property there…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five hundred and forty gallons of petrol, being transported in a tank trailer, caught alight and former a parrier of fire across the Princes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire-bug is at large in Ballarat, and residents are maintaining nightlong vigils in an endeavor to catch him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A party of relief workers was trapped on a rock ledge on which they were fighting a fire at Shochoni, National Park, near Cody, Wyoming. Eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to the gravity of the Shanghai situation the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) to-morrow will confer with Capt. Eden and other Cabinet Ministers. The Cabinet will consider plans to evacuate the entire British civilian population, numbering 9237, from Shanghai. There are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 1000 feet of hose had to be run out before Lismore firemen could obtain water to fight a fire which broke out in a three-roomed weatherboard…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A mysterious incendiarist who has been responsible for many outbreaks of fire in the Ballarat district was again at work early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The interesting ceremony of fire walking, as practised by the natives of the Pacific Islands, was witnessed recently by Mr. James Colston, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales invite tenders for renovations to the Grafton Fire Station, which are returnable by 9 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A house occupied by Mr. J. Craig, at the B.T. mill, ten miles from, Dorrigo, was destroyed by fire last night. Mr. Craig was at the pictures at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messrs. T. Grant' and Simpson, two Dorrigo forestry officers were inspecting, timber in the vicinity of the B.T. mill during the week-end when they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Legislative Assembly, replying to Mr. Henry (U.C.P, Clarence) who asked if the Government proposed to consider more satisfactory means of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A four-roomed cottage, used at one time as the post office at Shark Creek, was destroyed by fire last week. It is understood that the house was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A new law is being proposed in Pennsylvania by which every fire shall be filmed. The idea is not to provide dramatic life stuff for Hollywood, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Addressing the conference on bushfire prevention to-day, Mr. E. I. S. Hudson, Forestry Commissioner, advocated that the fire danger areas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The residence of Mrs. J. J. Stewart, of Nundle, was burnt to the ground on Friday night. Mrs. Stewart lived in the house with her son, and they were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday bush fires broke out at various points surrounding Coramba. At the rear of Mr. Geo. Blythe's residence on the Eastbank road; a spacious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out in a shed at the back of Fossey's store in Prince street, Grafton, at about 8 o'clock on Saturday night, and spread with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An eight-roomed weatherboard house at Southgate occupied by Mr. George Phelps, and owned by Mrs. J. Leeson. was burned down early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Detectives have decided to make plaster casts of footprints found near the scene of the Blayney Theatre fire and the reservoir, where an attempt…
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