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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires
11 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers
SERIOUS bush fires were reported from all parts of the Hawkesbury District on Wednesday. The towns of Windsor and Richmond were encircled by almost a complete ring of bush fires, and the damage will amount to many thousands of pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR Riverstone correspondent reports that during the torrid weather conditions of last week the township and surrounding districts were greatly menaced by bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THAT some of the city newspapers will "swallow" anything to create a scare was again demonstrated last week, when the "Sun" served out to its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The regular fortnightly meeting of Windsor Council was held on the 15th instant, when the following were present:—The Mayor (Ald. W. H. Dean), and Ald. J. W. Ross…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A weatherboard cottage, owned by Mr. Arthur Biddle and occupied by Mrs. Clarrie Pitt, in Toxana-street, Richmond, was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BLACKTOWN SHIRE advised Windsor Council at its last' meeting that Clydesdale bridge over South Creek, on the Blacktownroad, had been seriously damaged by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ASTOUNDING and mysterious circumstances surround a series of ten distinct fires which have occurred in a shop in Windsor, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TEN distinct mysterious fires which broke out at a store in Windsor, at intervals on March 25, 26 and 27 last, were investigated by the District Coroner (Mr. H. S.Johnston, J.P.) at the local Court House on Tuesday. AT the conclusion of lengthy evidence the Coroner brought in a verdict to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire brigades from city stations averted, a big fire on Monday night when within a few minutes of the alarm being given they arrived in time to extinguish flames that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →AN INQUIRY into the cause of a fire which destroyed an unfurnished three-roomed weatherboard cottage, the property of Samuel Coorey, at Glossodia, on May 15…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RESIDENTS of Windsor were rudely awakened early on Wednesday morning by a daring safe robbery, followed by a spectacular fire which destroyed a two-storey brick produce store, and caused damage estimated at more than £3,000…
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