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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
194 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 10
When the Australian troopship Maori King, bound for the Cape, was off Madagascar a lamp-trimmer working on the steamer was arrested and charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A big fire occurred to-day at North Melburne. It broke out in a furniture shop kept by Simpson, tut owing to a bad water supply, this and other shops, occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The accounts that are coming in from the country districts of losses by bush fires are appalling. Gippiland has suffered most. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports of terrible destruction and consequent destitution, the result of bush fires, are still coming on from Gippsland. Scores of settlers are homeless and ruined. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE newly-appointed superintendent of the Broken Hill Fire Brigade, Mr. J. M. Lamborne, entered on his duties at the fire station to-day. Mr. Lamborne has for some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A large two-storey warehouse in this city, jointly occupied by the New Zealand Land, Loan, and Mercantile Agency Company and the New Zealand Shipping Company, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires are raging in the Gippsland and other Victorian districts. Farmers and settlers have been burnt out in all directions. buildings have been consumed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN inquest, will bs held at the courthouse to-morrow afternoon into a fire that occurred early on Saturday morning at a house in Beryl-street, co[?] opied by Mrs. Bridget…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MR. MAITLAND, P.M., held an inquest this afternoon into a fire which occurred early on Saturday morning at the house of Bridget Davren, in Beryl-street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Buller reports that the Boers retreated in hot haste from around Ladysmith, except a small rear-guard. To the north of Surprise Hill and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the Fire Brigade Board was held to-day in the Mayor's parlor. There were present—The Mayor (in the chair), and Messrs. J. M. Stephens, J. Sully,' and G…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SHORTLY before 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a loar-roomed wood-and iron house at the corner of Cobalt and Iodide streets. The night was particularly calm, so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another serious fire occurred last night in Flinders-street, the scene of nearly all the most destructive fires recently, though on this occasion the flames were kept pretty well…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME of the circumstances surrounding the fire which occurred in a four-roomed house in Cobalt-street yesterday morning aroused the suspicions of the police. Diligent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A gigantic fire broke out in Paris last night,, the Comedie Francoise, the national theatre of France,'being burnt down. Some of the valuable pictures in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN inquest was heldel at the courthouse"this afternoon by Mr. Maitland, P.M., into the canse of the fire which occurred in a home at the corner of Cobalt and Iodide streets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Numerous interesting facts concerning the flight of the Boers from before Lord Roberts' army in the fight near Osfontein on Wednesday hare come to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Daily News this morning announces that Presidents Kruger and Steyn have made overtures for peace to Lord Salisbury, on the basis of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fearful fire occurred at Kanowna on Saturday, by which 23 shops were burned down. The outbreak occurred in Isabeliastreet, in James' bootshop. Mr. James was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT 1 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a wood-and-iron store at the corner of Argent and Iodide streets occupied by H. Salant. Someone…
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