Fires
ABOUT a quarter to one yesterday morning a rubbish heap on the Market reserve, at the rear of municipal weigh bridge, Clinton-street, Goulburn was seen by Mr. Tully to be…
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Fires & bushfires, 1900
224 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 12
Bush Fires in Victoria. a Million Acres Devastated. Twenty Thousand Sheep Burned
MELBOURNE, Monday.— Warrnambool district report devastating bush fires, the worst the district has known for 50 years. The tires sprang up on Saturday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires in Victoria. Farms and Estates Devastated. Heavy Losses. Exciting Adventures. Melbourne
The intense heat on Sunday caused destructive bush fires to break out in various parts of the colony. Many settlers lost heavily. The wind changed…
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THE secretary of the fire brigades board received notification this morning from Mr. Ashton M.P. that a special grant of £50 had been allotted to the Goulburn fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grant to the Goulburn Fire Brigade
MR. JAMES ASHTON, M.P., has been informed that the sum of £50 line been allotted by the Government to the Goulburn Fire Brigade Board for the purchase of a now hose reel. The Board…
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ANOTHER disastrous bush fire was raging in the Warrnambool district (Victoria) on Monday. It is supposed to have started from the remains of the previous fire. Many people…
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THE bush fires in the Pyrenees in the Avoca districts are still raging. and bundreds of moon or trying to beat the flames back into the mountains. The…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Consequent upon the disastrous loss occasioned by the Carrapook bushfire, the residents of that locality held a meeting to discuss the…
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The Daily News correspondent states that the Western Australian troops under Captain H. G. Moor are at Slingersiontein, eight miles south-east of Coleshberg…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Gun Righted Under Heavy Fire
When Major-General Wynne was retiring on Monday after his feint attack on the enemy, one of his guns was overturned. It was righted by the artillery under an…
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The "Daily Mail's" correspondent telegraphs further particulars of the reconnaissance near Colesberg on Friday in which 60 Tasmanian and Victorian troops, under the command of Captain C. St…
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Twenty Western Australian troops, under the command of Captain H. G. Moor, discovered the Boers in the act of placing a gun near Slingersfontein, eight miles south-east of Colesberg…
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WE have been informed that the claims of Mr. William Spl[?]t in Connection with the fire which recently destroyed his premises in Yass street have been satisfactorily settled by the…
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AN exhibition of a new invention for extinguishing fires, called the "Feuer Annihilator," was given at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade on Monday afternoon…
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During the heavy downpour which flouted the city streets at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, some of the George-street trams ran with their electric…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in South Africa. the Fighting Near Colesberg. Australians Under Fire. Lord Roberts' Preparations. London, Feb. 14
FURTHER details are to hand of the brisk fighting which has taken place in northern Cape Colony. The Boers at Colesberg outnumber…
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The Victorian Mounted Rifles and the Western Australian troops did splendid service in the fighting between Rensberg and Colesberg…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British and Australians Under a Terrible Fire
The 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, with four guns, the 6th Dragoon Guards, a detachment of Lancers, and two companies of Australian troops under Captain J. G. Legge, commanding the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer Account of Some of the Fighting. Fearful of Fire of the Naval Guns. Heavy Boer Casualties
The Cape Times publishes the subjoined Reuter's special message sent from the Upper Tugela via Lorenzo Marquez, and dated January 19. It…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Latest. the War. Cronje at Bay. He Will Not Surrender. Terrific Artillery Fire. the Entrenched Boers. London, Friday Afternoon
ON receiving a second message suggesting a surrender Lord Kitchener, acting as Chief of Staff on behalf of the British Commander-in-Chief, invited General Cronje to the…
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