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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
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Stories of terrible devastation wrought by bush fires in this and other States within the past few days continue to come to hand accompanied by details of hairbreadth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About S. o'clock on Tuesday evening residents of Hunter-street, near Johnstreet, observed flames shooting up to a fair height toward George-street in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Newcastle to-day Joseph Derail was committed for trial for wilfully setting fire to the barque Itata…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A more complete knowledge of the results of the terrible fire that raged in parts of Victoria on Tuesday are now, being made known. Additional evidence has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BIG bush fires have been ranging about Cootamundra district during the last few days. At Jugiong, miles of country have been bunt, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIX children, all members of a family named Lonsdale, were burnt to death while returning from school at Toora, Gippsland, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With a view of affording some relief to the sufferers from the disastrous bush fires, Mr. Ashton, ithe Minister of Lands, has decided to follow the course adopted by him on a former…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The harrowing accounts of loss of life and dreadful sufferings from the devastating bush fires that have swept over portions of New South Wales and Victoria during the week…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A woman on Wednesday left her mother's house with two small children to walk five miles to Inglebar (30 miles from Warren). It is supposed she took…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reports continue to come to hand regarding the fearful bush fires in Victoria. Councillor Clemson, president of the South Gippsland shire, relates his experienced:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old residents of Gidppsland (Vic.) who have had experience of many bush fires describe the present outbreak as the most terrible they have ever seen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The causes of bush fires arc almost without end, and in days of a heat wave the least thing will set the country, ablaze. At Gundagia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News continues to reach Melbourne from the interior giving particulars of the fearful damage done by the bush fires in all parts of that State. Hundreds of settlers have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A scorching day like last Saturday, with fierce hot winds blowing, is generally followed by reports from various parts of the country of extensive and devastating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The devastating fires that have been raging in this State, and also in other parts of the Commonwealth, are reported in this issue,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A message from Toora, in Gippsland, states that a fire started there on Tuesday night, to the west of the town. It swept round Hoddle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fire on Euglo, near Condobolin, swept past the door of the homestead, burning the stock yards, 50 feet from the house. On Avondale, Mr. P. H Mooney had his grass swept, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DISASTROUS fires are raging in the Condobolin district, doing mach damage. A party of prospectors in this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The devastation caused in the Condobolin district is greater than first imagined. Every blade of grass in many localities has been burned,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It Las not yet been possible to fully ascertain the extent of the disasters in the Gippsland country of Victoria. Many hard fights against the fire as…
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