Great Fire in Montreal. Damage £1,000,000
Reuter's correspondent reports that the wholesale basinets quarter of Montreal has been burned. Included in the buildings destroyed were those of the Board of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1901
263 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 14
The District Bush Fires
MR. J. C. WATSON, M.L.A. has received the following communications which have been handed to us for publication :— “The Treasury of New South Wales,…
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DESTRUCTIVE bush fires occurred in several districts in Victoria on Friday. At Birregurra an area of thousands of acres was swept by the flames. Many homesteads, miles of fencing, and a large number of…
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Melbourne, Thursday.—Melbourne has been scorched up to-day by an insufferable heat. By 4 o'clock this afternoon a record had been established. The thermometer had crawled…
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Great damage from the effects of bush fires is reported from the Corowa district. Grass, fences, stacks, and so on, were destroyed on Burrumbuttock. Similar…
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Adelaide, Friday. — The damage done by fire in the Mount Pleasant district is estimated at many thousands of pounds Hundreds of sheep including Stud rams,…
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FURTHER particulars of the fires in Victoria show that the flames were driven along at such a terrific rate that it was with the utmost difficulty…
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Melbourne, Friday. —Bush fires throughout the Sate have ravaged most districts worse than a tornado. Valuable properties have been swept away, and numerous…
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Queenstown (Tasmania), Friday.—When the fires were burning around Queenstown on January 25, endangering the town and destroying houses, it was little thought…
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DESTRUCTIVE bush fires were reported on Friday from various ports of new South Wales. Much damage was done, and many settlers were burnt…
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Another victim, the fifth, of the terrible fire at Birregurra, died at the Colac Hospital on Saturday afternoon in the person of William H. James, 30 years of age. He was severely burnt about the…
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IT is said that the recent fires in Victoria were caused by men dropping phosphories while poisoning rabbits. Out of twenty homesteads at Greta…
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Disastrous bush fires have occurred in many districts of Victoria. In some instances valuable pastoral properties have been swept, homesteads burned to the…
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SEVERAL more bush fires have taken place in our own and adjoining districts within the last week or so, and no doubt the work of destruction will, go…
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COWRA, Friday.--Along the Western Falls, Crowther and Broula ranges, a great fire is raging among dense timber and scrub. The reflection at…
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A MEETING was hold at the Public School, Douglas Park, to pass rules, &c, and enrol members to form a Bush Fire Brigade A fair number of enthusiasts turned up…
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Among novel ways in which fires occur in the harvest field, Mr. H. E Cuttle, dating from Ultima, in the mallee, writes:—"One of our neighbours has been very…
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IN our advertising columns Messrs. John Bette and Sons announce that an exhibition of their fire extinguisher will be given at Young on Monday evening next at 8.15…
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On Monday night, in the bed of the creek near Short-street bridge, Messrs. John Betts and Sons gave an exhibition of the power of a fire extinguishing material, which the firm has placed…
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THE money collected for the relief of the sufferers by the bush fire at Bigga on December 17th, 1900, amounted to £167, showing that the people responded liberally to the call on their sympathies…
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