Disastrous Bush Fire at Minto
WITH the thermometer registering 116 degrees in the shade and a fierce hot wind blowing, a bush fire broke out at Minto last Saturday afternoon and wrought…
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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Fires & bushfires
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WITH the thermometer registering 116 degrees in the shade and a fierce hot wind blowing, a bush fire broke out at Minto last Saturday afternoon and wrought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN connection with the above a public meeting was held in the Minto School of Arts on Saturday last There was a good attendance. The Mayor of Ingleburn (Ald. Piggott)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our correspondent at The Peaks writes describing the destructive fire recently experienced at the silver fields. You should see the fields now, such a wreck you never…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AT the latter end of last week a bush fire started along George's River, out near the homestead selections. For a time it made little headway, but on Sunday (a hot day,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In last Wednesday's issue of your paper I am reported by your Minto correspondent as having offered to undertake a test case free of cost to the committee. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT a meeting of the central executive in Sydney it was resolved to invite applications for relief to be lodged with the honorary secretaries before 31st inst. All applications…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Any sufferers by the late disastrous bush fires in the district should immediately send in their claims to the Advisory Committee appointed for the Camden district. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AN important discussion on the subject of protection against bush fires took place at the annual meeting of the Wagga branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SHORTLY after 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning last a fire broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. J. Ardill aa a grocery and ironmongery store in Queen-street, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE question of the formation of a fire brigade locally has been discussed a good deal during the past week, and there is now every indication of the matter being brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE weatherboard cottage on the old Managle-road, erected by Mrs. Gore about twelve months ago, was totally destroyed by fire at midnight on Monday. Constructed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CORONER'S inquest, conducted by Mr. C. W. Furner, J.P., of camden, was held in the Court House, Campbelltown, on Friday afternoon last in connection with the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday evening last a fire was covered in the outside buildings of Messrs. Ferguson and Son's Camden nursery. These buildings comprised the storage of the very…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The old adage that troubles never come along would appear to have been exemplified in a remarkable manner by the misfortune which has overtaken two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the officials of the L. B. and S. C. Railway stationed at Sheffield Park has contrived an ingenious electrical machine, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire, said to have been started by the flamo of an incubator in an outhouse, broke out last Wednesday night on Mr. W. H. Hagan's property, near George's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires are raging in several parts of the State, and much damage is being done. In the Burragorang district and a Bob's Range, the fire feind has been at work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the whole of last week fires were raging in the Werombi district, and a band of weary fire fighters were kept constantly going from early morn till late at night…
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