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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 28
The Germans violently bombarded Soissons on Thursday. Fires broke out in all parts of the town. Shells killed many children. The Germans are keeping men…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous bush fires are raging in the Wairarapa district, new Zealand. The outbreak is accompanied by cyclonic gales. Considerable property has been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It was June—June in a riot of sunshine and of roses; June with masses of white blossom in the rumbling garden of the old Red House at Meybridge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jim Darrell had married Cara three years earlier. In those days it had always been "Carissima," but as the months wore on the pet superlative had come less readily. In Jim's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The British Australian Timber Mills, Coff's Harbour, were destroyed by fire early this morning. The mill has been lying idle for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nobody who has habited Throgmorton-street, will forget that dark week in a sunny June—"the Black Account" they call it still—when, swiftly and against all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A disastrous fire occurred at the New Zealand Portland Cement Company's works Limestone Island, as the result of which practically all the manufacturing plant was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Dads, dear?" "Yes, sweetheart?" "How do you spell 'hope?" "H," began Darrell, "O—and now you…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Private R. L. Haine, 1st Battalion Honourable Artillery Company, writing home of the doings of this crack regiment, says: "We are at present stationed in a village…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A disastrous fire occurred in Wee Waa on Saturday morning the hospital being completely destroyed. The fire was noticed shortly after 2…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Darrell filled another pipe with studied care. His eyes dropped from the other's face. "You deceive her Jim," Roles cried…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire occurred early on Sunday morning on the steamer Loongana, while the vessel was proceeding from Launceston to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While the people in the theatre wore acclaiming a new star, and before the curtain a slim girl flushed and bowed to them, a man who had trudged the sleet and cold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire damaged a quantity of furniture stored at premises occupied by George Willock and Co., at the corner of Church and Dixon streets, Parramatta, late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire was discovered in a two-roomed weatherboard house in Mount View Road, Cessnock, shortly after four o'clock this morning. The house was occupied by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(By Gunby Hadath, author of "Her Child," "The Man and the Maid," etc.). "But, Miss Carvell, you wear no wedding ring!" "No, sir Hector, How ridiculous you are!" "Oh, but it's you that are ridiculous. Most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire occurred at Molong this morning, and destroyed Malock's drapery shop, Billingham's tailoring business, and badly damaging Brooks' hotel and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious fire occurred on Wednesday afternoon at the Diamond Gold-mining Company's property at Diamond Creek (Vic.). The outbreak occurred at about 3 o'clock, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At ten-time Mrs. Daerixon found the girl distrait, and very soon, after some desultory small-talk, the latter left her. She would go up to her room, she said, and lie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive bush fires have been raging in various parts of Tasmania, notably in the dryness of the country has greatly…
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