The Recent Bush Fires. (To the Editor.)
SIR,—In reading your report of recent bush fire on Ryan's and Marsh's properties, I notice that two of the men who took a most prominent part in checking…
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Fires & bushfires, 1906
159 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 4 of 8
The Cause of Bush Fires. The Danger of Phosphorus
WRITING to the Daily TELEGRAPH, Mr. Frank Mack, of Narromine0, states that the ordinary mixture of phosphorus and pollard is not an agency in causing…
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A MAN who had a contract for clearing grass and weeds from the Cowra Cemetery has been lined £10 for careless use of fire. He burned a firebreak…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Incendiarism near Wagga. How a Fire Started
REGARDING the grass fire which occurred on Sandy Creek station, in the Wagga district, on Tuesday, the manager, Mr. W. C Rolls, states it was…
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Extensive bush fires are raging in various parts of the State, and numbers of settlers are fighting the flames…
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A fierce bush fire is reported to have broken out on Booberoi on Saturday night last, being started by lightning Striking the ground and igniting the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on Esmoor
What might have proved the culminating act in the awful drama enacted by the bush fire fiend in this district, was averted last week, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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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A CORRESPONDENT writes :—Having read Mr. Frank Mack's letter in your last issue, I beg to state that in my opinion there is just as much danger…
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A WARREN gentleman who has recently travelled Orange way says that he and a companion in the train watched the wheels for half an hour…
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MR. J. HAY FOWLER of Cringagee, inventor of the grass fire cart, offers the following advice:— "New the grass fires are very prevalent,…
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After a big fire in London some interesting notes were made on the sales which were excavated from the ruins. One safe had the brass handles and [?]ttings…
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In view of the unusually prolific growth of grass over a large are of the State, and the increased danger, of settlers from bush fires, the…
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MR. TOM BROWN, M.H.R., has just toured the western portion of his electorate, in the course of which he travelled through some of the country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Phosphorus and Fires
THE probable extent of the connection of phosphorus with the devastating' bush fires that have been so graphically described of late is a problem of…
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‘Chemist’ writing in the ‘Herald’ says ‘That phosphorus pure and simple if properly mixed is not so likely to fire as some of the so-called non-inflammable…
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Great consternation was caused at Broken Hill on Saturday when it became known that a fire had occurred in Block [?] Proprietary mine. It started about…
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The fire at the Propriety Mine at Broken. Bill is causing more trouble than was anticipated, and the men have been withdrawn…
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Writing under date 12th, instant from Cudgellico, to the Farmer and Settler, Branch Secretary Knight says :--…
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THIS year points to more bush fires in our district than any year which we have yet experienced. Looking to the cause of auch vast destruction we find that the trouble…
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