Bush Fires. Thousands of Acres of Grass Burnt
BUSH fires have been raging in the vicinity of Peak Hill for the past week, the township at times being completely enveloped in smoke. A fire originated…
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Fires & bushfires, 1905
165 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 7 of 9
Bush Fires
In the Assembly on Monday, Mr Kelly, M.P., asked the Minister for Lands if his attention had been drawn to the fact that bush fires were raging in pastures of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Precautions against Bush Fires. Hints to Country Officials
As the result of instructions embodied in minute by the Premier about a week ago, the necessity fur which has since been demonstrated by bush fires that have occurred…
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FOR the dissimination of exaggerated and far-fetched stories concerning the bush fires in this district, we think the Cootamundra Herald occupies premier position…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Public Meeting. Bush Fires Discussed
THE meeting called by the Mayor and Police Magistrate for 3 p.m. on Saturday at Central Wyalong, for the purpose of discussing the advisability of taking some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wamboyne Fires
The damage done by the extensive bush flies in the above district was referred to in our last issue. Since then we have been favored with an authenticated list of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Prevention
The season of the year during which bush fires are to be feared has now begun, and we have been requested by the Government to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Public Meeting. in Connection with the Bush Fires
A public meeting was convened to take place at Hild brand's Australia Hotel, at 3 p.m., on Saturday last, the 2nd inst, to consider the best…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires. Disaster and Devastation Losses on the Lachlan
Implacable and malignant Fate has taken a deep interest in the Condobolin district of recent years, and by an ironical juxtaposition of adverse or propitious circumstance…
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The genial mayor of Condobolin, Mr Geo Randall, cannot be accused by his most inveterate foe of being oblivious to the needs and welfare of the town, and if such an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires
This year points to more bush fires in our district than any year which we have yet experienced. Looking to the cause of such vast destruction we find that the trouble…
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The inhabitant whose memory takes him back to the take when the world was supposed in have been wider, could not recall a year when grass was…
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We were told a story of a farmer on whose country a bush fire was burning. The fire did not trouble him, he had no crop to burp, and he had…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Gunningbland Fire. [Told by an Eye Witness.]
You ask me if I can tell you anything about the fires near Gunningbland Siding on Monday. Well, I think so, for "I happened to be there," and saw…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush Fires
The season of the year doing which bush fives are to be feared has now begun, and we have been requested by the Government to invite attention to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Raging
CONDOBOLIN, Monday.—Further reports of bush fires arrive daily. A fire from Merrigal broke out on Saturday, and burned against, the wind towards Mil by. Residents,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mixture for Fire-cement
To make a fire-cement use 100 parts fire day (wet), three parts black oxide manga[?] three parts white sand, and a half part powdered asbestos. Thoroughly mix,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Billabong Fire
A FIRE started on Billabong Station, on Saturday last, and travelled with great rapidity, being carried along at a great pace by the strong winds. The damage…
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Since the diaster of a few weeks back the fires have appeared to have burned themselves out, at least in this locality. But most of the farmers refused to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush-fire Fighting in the West
There was grass on every part of the run. Along the ridges at the back the barley grass rose higher than the fence ; its tassels of seed withered and dried…
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