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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
339 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 17
THE last day of the year 1904 and the first of the new year will long be sadly remembered as the culminating point of extensive and disastrous bush fires in Goulburn and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Governor's residence at Sutton Forest was in danger of being burnt out, and all day on Sunday and Monday the inmates were fighting the fire. From other districts accounts of fearful hardships…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our correspondent at Towrang writes:— The most disastrous bush fire over experienced in this locality raged in the vicinity of Towrang on Thursday and Friday last. During the forenoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mayor to-day received a wire from Mr. Ashton:—"Please let me know if I can be assistance in connection bush fire sufferers." The Mayor replied stating that it was intended to start locally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News of terrible bush fires, accompanied by very heavy losses, both as regards crops and homesteads, was received in Sydney on Saturday and Sunday. Two men were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FROM one end of New South Wales to the other there comes accounts of enormous lose done by [?] fires—accounts that have been made more heartrending because the fiend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE papers continue to give distressing accounts of the ravages of what we have become accustomed to call bush fires, but which unfortunately are not confined to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADDITIONAL particulars of the disastrous fires which have been raging for the past five or six days show that they were even more widespread than was at first feared, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE devastating fires which have been raging in the vicinity of Goulburn have fortunately been extinguished by steady, soaking rain which fell for a couple of hours this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In common with many other parts of the State described below, the Young district suffered great losses from the visitation of the fire [?]end on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The rain has had the happy effect of extinguishing the bush fires in this district. Yesterday not a vestige of smoke was to be seen on the hill surrounding the town…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The bush fires in the country districts have practically ceased their ravages. The telegrams which were received on Wednesday contained a distinctly more hopeful note on account of the rains…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sympathy will be universally and sincerely expressed for those whom a peculiarly malign fate has doomed to the terrors of the recent bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →so melancholy a catastrophe as the great [?]res which have swept over the State is in [?]onny respects unparalleled in the records of the country. The amount of damage wrought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The new year was ushered in in the most tragic way ; it marked the sweep of terrible bush fires in many parts of the State, and will form the date of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE last issue the outlying portions of this district to the north, west, and south have been visited with the most disastrous fires in the history of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dear Sir,—I am glad to see that you have opened a subscription list in aid of the local sufferers from the recent terrible bush fires, and as one who has suffered by them in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milton, Tuesday.—bush fires have wrought have in the Milton district during the past few days. Fires burst from the mountains, and swept the country towards the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowral, Tuesday.—A cool southerly wild sprang up yesterday evening, bringing drizzling rain during the night. This appears to have extinguished most of the smouldering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Carcoar, Tuesday.—Bush fires are still raging throughout the district. The fire that originated at oakey creek, 14 miles from carcoar, on Saturday, and part of which…
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