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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
446 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 23
The residents in the Hills are becoming exceedingly nervous with regard to bush fires. These have been so frequent lately that no one is sure that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In connection with tho outbrenk of Ero in. a storeroom nt tho roar of tho Niagara Gardens, os reported in tho First Edition of this morning's "Minor,"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out in the Convent of St. Clair, at Lypna (France) to-day. In order to keep the rule forbidding men to enter the nuns barricaded the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not for the past 20 years has such a wide area of the Adelaide hills been dovastated by bush [?]ires as during the last few days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrific bush fires are raging in the Adelaide hills the biggest and most disastrous for 20 years. HOldings have been burnt out…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shortly before 7 o'clock last night the central-fire station received a call to a fire in Williams-street, oil Sulphidestreet. District Officer Lamborne, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A report was current to-day in the city that a four-roomed house owned by Mrs. Thoroughgood, situated at East Broken Hill had been totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The disastrous bush fires that raged through the Mount Lofty Ranges On Thursday continued with unabated fury all, day. yesterday, and nightfall, saw a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It will be remembered that at the Yeceht fire at South Broken Hill, when three, buildings were completely, destroyed, the matter of the low,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire was noticed, to-day at. Air. I R. Barr-Smibh's residence," Torrenspark, at Mitcham, and but- for the plucky efforts of fire-fighters Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The announcement on Saturday that a man had been seen deliberately setting fire to the grass on the side of Tanner's Hill, near Hahndorf, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The members of the fire brigade at Maitland and Broken Hill are still unsettled in spite of the advice of the union to remain quiet until the State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Devastations by bush fires are occurring in all portions of Victoria. Many settlers in the newer districts have suffered severely, grass farm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush fires have been raging all round Threw cottages and a box mill fuctory were destroyed at Gardener's Bay, and it is feared that further…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipping de[?]sys are being caused by the smoke from bush fires along the Australian and Tasmanian coasts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. H. G. Downer has given £250 towards the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the recent bush fires in the Hills district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The remarks made by Captain Dakin, secretary of the Fire Brigades' Union, as reported in the First Edition of to-day's "Miner." were brought under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The overheating of an exhaust pipe attached to a gas engine at the ice works was responsible for a minor outbreak of fire just before 0 o'clock last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The frequency of fires in Broken Hill during the past mouth was in some cases attributed to the indiscriminate burning of, rubbish. The danger of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two corridor carriages on the Bairnsdale express took fire between Fernbank and Lindenow on Saturday, causing excitement among the passengers,…
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