Victorian Fires. No Loss of Life Reported. Heavy Damage to Property
Reports received from the areas in which bush fires were again experienced in Victoria owing to a strong gale that swept across the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1926
970 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 49
Sugar Refinery Fire. Cascades of Molten Sugar
A fire which broke out on the premises of the Colonal Sugar Refining Company, at Granville (S.A.) was still raging on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian Fires. Cost of Restoring Settlements. Church and Houses Burned. Melbourne
A member of the Lord Mayor's Bush Fires Relief Committee, who visited the burut-out areas of Gippsland, estimates that it will cost five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Big Fires £1.100,000 Goes Up in Smoke. Melbourne
A fire, which occurred shortly after 7 o'clock to—night. destroyed the flour—mills of John Darling and Sons, at Sunshine, and did damage in three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Victims. 550 Houses Burnt. Relief of Sufferers. Melbourne
The sub-committee, of Cabinet, which is devising a scheme for the rehabilitation of the suffers in the recent disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Narrow Escape. Surrounded by Bush Fire
Particulars of the bush fires at Roslyn, in the Goulburn, district show that an area of 10,000 acres, mostly good grass lands, was swept…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Practical Joke. How Bush Fire Started
The suspicion that some of the bush fires were started deliberately was confirmed by an experience at Ournie Creek, on the Upper Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Relief Funds (By Telegraph.) Sydney
The Victorian bush fire relief funds now total £113,316…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Family Missing. Victorian Bush Fires. Rescuers Driven Back by Flames. Melbourne
The bush fires in Victoria are now dying out, and there is now only one serious outbreak burning. This is near Kyneton, where a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Bush Fire. Outbreak Near Gosforth. Flames Spread to Anambah
A disastrous bush fire occurred at Gosforth on Monday. Fanned by a brisk north-westerly breeze, the flames spread with alarming…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Victorian Bush Fires Fierce Outbreak at Dixon's Creek. Healesville Country Swept (By Telegraph.) Melbourne
With a change of wind to the south, the danger of further extensive outbreaks is not likely. Fires arc still burning fiercely in some places, but not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Sydney. Prompt Action Averts Big Blaze
Prompt action [?] the part of the fire brigades prevented what [?] have been a big fire in the five-storied promises known as Dudley Buildings…
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Fires, fierce and devastating, are again sweeping across parts of Victoria just beyond the scene of the great outbreaks which destroyed Powelltown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Victoria's Awful Fires
The splendid heroism of those who freely risked and gave their lives in the endeavour to save others during the recent appalling bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Mine. Damage at Bundamba Efforts to Locate Seat of Blaze Fail
The Aberdare Extended mine at Bundamba (Q.), owned by Walker's Ltd., is on fire. The extent of the outbreak is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victorian Fires Township Ablaze
A message from Melbourne on Wednesday night stated that the township of Kinglake, 30 miles north of Melbourne, had been set ablaze by bush…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Sheep Losses. Fires at Condobolin
Fire broke out recently on Mr. Thos. Judd's plate. Condoblin. About 3000 sheep were in a paddock, and 1500 of them were burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Victorian Fires. Relief Funds Grow. Melbourne
The bush fire relief funds now total £103,624. In this amount are included two donations of £10 each sent by cable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victorian Fires. Over Five Hundred Buildings Destroyed
It is estimated that the recent Victorian bushfires destroyed 530 building, of which 300 will have to be rebuilt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Heavy Fine. Careless Lighting of Fires
At the Corryong Police Court (Vic.) Leonard U. Surtees, of Corryong, was charged with having lighted a fire within 100 yards of a State…
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