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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
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At daylight to-day, 5000. miners from seven lodges on the Newcastle fields marched, into the Ashtonfield Colliery and surrounded the pit-head, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven shops were destroyed by fire in the business section of Woris Creek early this morning. The damage amounts to many thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →According to a report issued by the Forest Commission, bushfires in Victoria during the past five years have caused £4,O00,000 damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Between 2 and 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in McGregor's paddock at Glenridding, and burned out a fair strip of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dennis Slattery, 50, of Richmond, who was severely burned in a fire which occurred at the Boston Black-coy., Richmond, on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The premises of Bert Sutton, a cabinet manufacturer and shopfitter, at the Haymarket, were partially destroyed by fire last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two five-roomed cottages were totally destroyed by fire in Cessnock district last night. At 1.30 the home of E. M…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Philip Horatius Whinfield was arrested at Tamworth on Saturday night on a charge which, it is believed, is connected with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Seven places at Werris Crook wore destroyed by fire early on Friday morning, and the damage runs into several thousands of pounds. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sergt. Stephenson, of Tamworth, and Sergt. McGrath, of Werris Creek, on Saturday night arrested a man in Tamworth in connection, it is believed, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Minutes of meeting of the above held at Darthrook, on 10th inst. Present: Messrs. W. T. Badgery (in the chair), J. R. Dayics, D. Sullivan, P…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The eighth are at Tamworth this year broke out at Piper and Co.'s wool and skin store, at the corner of Bourke and Feel-streets, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday a motor lorry carrying coal from GBrien's Colliery, in the Maitland district, to Newcastle, caught fire on the Maitland road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five shops, a boarding house, and one private residence were destroyed in a fire which swept through Singlestreet, Werris Creek, early on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon there was an outbreak of fire in the kitchen of a four- roomed cottage at Kearsley…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At 1.30 on Saturday morning the Bellbird Fire Brigade, under Capt. H. Kempe, turned out to a blaze at the dwelling of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A five-roomed weatherboard cottage owned by Ernest Ford and situated at the corner of Margaret and Francis- street, West Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is generally believed that an attack on Rothbury is contemplated, although as far as can yet be learnt, the date for the attempt has not yet been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While there have been no bush fires of any serious character reported so far this summer, owing mainly, no doubt, to the nature of the season…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the above was held on the 10th, inst. Present: W. T. Badgery (in the chair), J. R. Davies, D. Sullivan, P. Meehan, A. Bird, J…
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