Fires
AN apparently false alarm called out the brigade at 1.30 on Monday morning. A four-roomed wood-and-iron house at the corner of Iodide and Morgan streets, owned…
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Fires & bushfires, 1900
194 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 10
The Bush Fires in Tasmania. Spreading in all Directions. Serious Damage to the Crops. HOBART
The intense heat at present prevailing has caused a spread of bush fires throughout the colony. Many reports of disasters have come to hand. The principal districts affected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Bush Fires. Four Colonies Suffer. Among the Worst on Record. [By Telegraph.] Destruction in South Australia. The Hills and South-East Suffer. ADELAIDE
The extreme heat of the last couple of days has been responsible for many outbreaks of bush fires. There were serious outbreaks in three or four places in the Mount Pleasant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fires of a Twelvemonth
IT was only a medium year for fires. For 1897 98 the calls averaged 78; for 1899 there were 61 calls. The year began with a serious fire—that at Moore's Corner. Then there was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tasmanian Fires. Government Relief Offered. HOBART
The bush fires are still raging in all directions. Nine families have been burnt out, and the State school at Dromedary, as well as that at Bismarck, has been destroyed. No…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2nd Edition Miner Office, [?].[?] p.m. Fire on the Express. In a Smoking-car. A Scene of Confusion. Ladies Panic-stricken. A Plucky Climb. No One Injured. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Thursday Afternoon
When the Broken Hill express which left [?] Barrier last night was about two miles from Mannahill at about 12.30 a.m. a fire broke out in the smoking carriage, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bush Fires. The Mount Gambier Outbreak. A Loss of Nearly £100,000. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
It is estimated that the losses through the bush fires in Mount Gambier district amount to between £70,000 and £100,000. Amongst the losses reported are:—C. Ellis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War. the Fight at Sunnyside. Behavior of the Colonials. Praised by the Authorities. More Fighting at Colesberg. Boers Re-enter the Town. General Gatacre's Division. [Reuter's Messages.] the Fight at Sunnyside. Further Details. Colonials Under Fire. "Behaved Magnificently." the Relief of Douglas. Enthusiasm of the Townspeople. London
Further particulars of the engagement at Sunnyside, on the western frontier, state that the oocupants of the enemy's laager were mostly colonial Dutch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Zealanders Again Under Fire. London
News has been received from northern Cape Colony that twenty-five New Zealanders, while in an exposed condition on a kopje towards Golesberg, drew a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Gallant Exploit. Swimming the Modder Under Heavy Fire
THE Brisbane Courier of January 1 publishes an interesting letter from Major Victor Sellheim, in which the gallant officer gives a graphic and modest account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire Brigade
TO THE EDITOR OF THE BARRIER MINER. SIR,—Re Broken Hill Fire Brigade Board, according to your report of Friday, the 29th December last, the Mayor (Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire Brigade
THE finance committee of the council met this afternoon to consider the liabilities of the Fire Brigade. At the last meeting of the council it was decided that accounts passed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on a Troopship. No Arrests Yet. Brisbane
No arrests have yet been made in connection with the fire on the troopship Maori King on Friday night. It is remarked that the crew of the steamer consists principally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Sensation in Brisbane. A Troopship on Fire. BRISBANE, Saturday Afternoon
A sensation has been caused in Brisbane through the news having leaked out that an attempt was made to set fire to the Queensland troopship Muori King…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire on the Maori King. Foreigners Being Closely Watched. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Afternoon
The Premier (Mr. Lyne) has telegraphed to Mr. Philp, the Queensland Premier, for particulars of the attempt to fire the troopship Maori King, with a view to further…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Bush Fires. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Bush fires are rasing at Ararat, Benalla. Camperdown, Coleraine, Euroa, Geelong, and Gisborne. "Thompson's Almanack and Encyclopaedia,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire Brigade Problem
MATTERS in connection with the Fire Brigade are still in an unsettled state, and how long they are to remain so is unknown, as the Mayor refuses to disclose the latest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Bromide-street
SHORTLY after 11 o'clock last night a fire broke out in a one-roomed wood-and-iron shop at the corner of Bromide and Blende streets. The place was composed of very flimsy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Chinese Camp
A DISASTROUS fire broke out on Monday morning about 4 o'clock in the Chinese camp at Deniliquin (as already wired to the MINER0, consuming nearly the whole of the buildings…
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ABOUT 8 o'clock last night a number of boys were smoking cigarettes in the vicinity of the ruins of last Friday night's fire in Bromide-street, and a match carelessly…
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