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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Fires & bushfires
135 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 5 of 7
There was a look of expectancy on the faces of all of the members of the Shire Council (the only absentee being Cr. McInerney who was detained in Sydney) when Cr. Dickson rose in his place on Saturday to make his promised ex[?]nation in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Speaking with regard to fires in general at Saturday[?] Council meeting President Hinton said that many of the ratepayers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Friday next the Board of Fire Commissioners will visit Grenfell and make an inspection of the Fire Station and Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ringing of the fire bell this morning a little after 1 o’clock bestirred most of our residents who are not sound…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last week business premises in Forbes were inspected by Inspector S. J. Tuck, who is a member of the staff of the Fire Board of Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A spark from a passing railway engine was blamed for setting alight to portion of the wooden fence surrounding the Shell Co.'s petrol depot, near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Members of the above Board visited Grenfell on Friday last. These present were: Messrs. T. J. Smith, M.L.C. (President), E. N. Haythorpe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Board of Fire Commissioners informed the Temora Municipal Council that the cost of extinguishing the recent huge fire at J. Dolden and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was yet another disastrous fire in Cowra this horning when that well furnished cafe known as “The Regent,” went up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire mysteriously b roke out in the Old Lachlan Club building, recently occupied as a dwelling, in Templar Street, last Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner H. D. Pulling has fixed Tuesday, 16th [?]nst, as the date on which the inquiries in connection with the two recent big fires here…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Young Police Court on Friday before Mr. Balmain, P.M., Henry Thomas Martin, sharefarmer, on "Moorilla," Grenfell Road, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Board of Fire Commissioners has informed the Temora Municipal Council that the fire at J. Dolden and Co's. haystacks on March 13…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prompt action on the part of Mr. C. Stivano saved what could easily have been a big blaze on Sunday night about 11.30. He was proceeding along…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Within the space of about fifteen hours, two fires occurred at Bannedman on Wednesday, as a result of which property was destroyed in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the inquiry into the cause of the fire at the Regent Cafe was opened before Mr. Coroner Pulling on Tuesday morning there was a quaint collection of “exhibits” in the case scattered around the Court House. The included a blackened…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It was by an uncomfortably small margin that residents in a burning building in Millthorpe early on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Forbes fireman, John W. J. Girdham, was put on the inquisitorial rack yesterday morning by Sergt. Arentz when Coroner A…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Most of Tuesday morning was devoted to the hearing of evidence at an inquiry conducted at the Court House, Cowra by Coroner H. D. Pulling in connection with the cause of a fire which took place [?] street on the morning of April 27th as the result of which a house the property of Mrs. Catherine Ford, and the contents thereof also owned by Ms. Ford were totally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The bale-fires of Agamemnon" were recalled in Forbes last Wednesday night when the town was ringed and criss-crossed…
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