Hay Destroyed by Fire
At about midnight on Wednesday, two stacks containing about 30 tons of hay belonging to Mr. David A. Whittaker, of Scalded Plain, near…
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Fires & bushfires, 1916
127 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 7 of 7
Canadian Forest Fires. 200 Lives Lost and Four Towns Destroyed
According to Reuter Canadian despatches the towns of Cochrane, Matheson, Mushka Station and Timmins, in northern Ontario, have been destroyed by forest fires…
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In these days, when it is possible to chat over the telephone with a person hundreds of miles away, we have no use for beacon fires, but in the old…
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On Friday afteonoon a quantity of timber that was stored on the show-ground, close to the caretaker's cottage, was destroyed by fire. The fire…
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The first bush fire in the Forbes district this season took place on Sunday last at Mr. F. Anderson's Bergon Park property, when over 130 acres of crop…
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Notwithstanding the "wet" harvest we have to record serious losses through fire in this district. Yesterday morning a fire broke out in a…
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What might have been a much more serious fire, broke out on Mr E. E. Southwell's Trundle property on Sunday afternoon, Plenty of ready…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on "Mayfield." Construction Train Causes Con[?]lagration
A fire started about 3 p.m. on Wednesday, on "Mavfield," the property of Mr. W. Towers, situated a few miles beyond Bygaloree,…
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