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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Fires & bushfires
288 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 15
Set on fire by incendiary bombs from rebel planes, and then machine gunned, the towns of Amorbieta, and Lemona suffered material damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →J. Baldwin, rabbit trapper, sustained serious injuries to both hands when he endeavored to take a fox from a trap in which it was caught. The fox…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A boy was severely burned all over his body when he "threw gunpowder on a bonfire at Cook's Hill, Newcastle, on Thursday. The boy, George…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After hot air burners had inflated Professor Pickard's balloon to nine tenths its capacity in order to enable him to ascend to the stratosphere from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Visitors to London from all over the world are bringing with them strange phobias, says the London "Sunday Express."…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A revolution, in heating and cooking appliances is shown in the display of gas cookers, and heaters, gas fires, and other modern comforts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The spirit of team work shown by the men who rescued Proud and Binstead, survivors of the Stinson aeroplane crash, was demonstrated again…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New England Motor Company's Diesel bus on the run from Yamba to Grafton caught fire near the corner of Fitzroy and Villiers streets, Grafton, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When fire broke out on the first floor of the Lyceum building in Pitt street to-day, many people were trapped and ten had to be reached by firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About midnight on Thursday, 20th May, the sawmill owned by Mr. S. Smyth was destroyed by fire. When the family retired at 10.30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A passenger vessel, the first to be rebuilt in compliance with the new regulations of the United States Department of Commerce to eliminate for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Buildings, several motor cars, machinery, and stocks of springs were lost in a fire which gutted portion of the large wood and iron motor, body…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lord Mayor, Ald. Howie, promised Aid. Dean (Labor) at the City Council meeting that he would investigate whether or not city…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The members of the Grafton Fire Brigade are announcing their annual social, which will be held as usual on the Monday of race week, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The expert committee, which was gent to America to investigate the Hindenburg fire, reported that the cause of the disaster had not been established…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The driver of a train travelling over the river bridge this afternoon saw flames leaping through the window of a cottage beside the line. On reaching the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire which broke out m the Surfers' Paradise Surf Life Saving Club's two-storey wooden building yesterday did £800 damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advice was received in Sydney today that the Island liner, Macdhui, is on fire off Fortification Point, between Lae and Madang (New Guinea), and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The staff of the Kyogle Memorial Hospital are competent fire-fighters. The fact Was revealed in a letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Contending that evidence for the defence was premature and inadmissible. Mr. Piddington, K.C., to-day raised questions of procedure before Mr…
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