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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
288 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 15
Sweeping the slopes of Mr. Macedon before driving northerly winds, a fierce bush fire is destroying acres of forest and scrub country and threatening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Severe damage was caused by a fire which partly destroyed the tannery works of John Carew and Co., Pty., Ltd., at Collingwood, to-day. Nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush fires which have menaced hundreds of homes, some of them the show places of Victoria, in the Mt. Macedon area at the eastern end of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Robertson 14 months, who was severely burned when a fire occurred in the bedroom of his home in Brooks street, Bar Reach, on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Glen Innes Coroner (Mr. Scroope, P.M.) returned an open verdict following his inquiry into a fire which damaged the barber's shop occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Excitement was causcd amongst shire workmen camped at Bonville Reserve several mornings ago, when a tent caught fire. Messrs. Frank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last week the shearing of Mr. G. R. Hall's flock of sheep on what was formerly McMinn's farm, was carried out, operations being finished about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A two-year-old child, Valda Oliver, was burned to death and her father, William Henry Oliver, 28, was frightfully burned all over the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While cane trash in an adjoining paddock on Mr. Waddell's farm at Back Channel, Wardell, was being burned, sparks were blown across a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by a mysterious fire which gutted portion of Spatts clothing mills, spinners arid weavers, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Chinese officer was killed and several passengers and members of the crew wounded when the steamer. Siushan, 296 tons, owned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While cane trash in an adjoining paddock on his farm was being burned sparks were blown across a dividing drain to a four-acre plot of one-year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When a fire broke out in the Queensland Public Library to-day, old Gazettes and other papers, which it will be impossible to replace, as well as his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When two gallons of benzine stored in the laundry beneath Mr. J. Turner's residence in Condong street, Murwillumbah, ignited at 10.30 on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Geo. Limbery, licensee of the Exchange Hotel, Ulmarra, burnt both hands this morning at 3 o'clock when extinguishing a fire that had started in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two women and seven, children were burnt to death in a fire in a three storey apartment house. Nineteen escaped, many spectacularly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clad in a smoke Haze, which may be its pall, and lit with flames, which may be its pyre, Nanking awaits the zero hour at noon on Friday, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The 30-years-old homestead of Mr. Herbert Arthur was destroyed by fire at Dorroughby on Saturday night. The building which was a weatherboard…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →All foreigners have been warned to prepare to evacuate Canton at a moment's notice. French anti-aircraft guns in the French Concession at Canton fired on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A brick falling from an excavation for a tube railway in the centre of Tokio struck a gas main, resulting in a spark which ignited the gas causing a…
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