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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

18 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers

Disastrous Bush Fire at Minto

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 2

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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Minto Bush Fire

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · 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)…

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The Peaks Bush Fires

Camden News · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 1

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…

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Bush Fires

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 3

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,…

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The Minto Bush Fire. to the Editor

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 2

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…

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Bush Fires Relief Fund

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1905 · 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…

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'Lord Mayor's Bush Fire's Relief Fund

Camden News · Thursday 16 February 1905 · page 8

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…

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Minimising Bush Fires

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 3

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…

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Disastrous Fire

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1905 · page 2

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…

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Proposed Fire Brigade

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · 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…

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Fire. a Cottage Destroyed

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · 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…

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The Late Fire. Coroner's Inquest

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 31 May 1905 · 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…

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Fire at the Camden Nurseries

Camden News · Thursday 17 August 1905 · page 1

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…

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Fires in Sydney Churches

Camden News · Thursday 24 August 1905 · page 2

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…

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A Useful Clock. It Lights a Fire

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 6 September 1905 · page 4

One of the officials of the L. B. and S. C. Railway stationed at Sheffield Park has contrived an ingenious electrical machine, which will…

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Fire

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 13 September 1905 · page 2

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…

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Bush Fires

Camden News · Thursday 16 November 1905 · page 4

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…

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Bush Fires

Camden News · Thursday 30 November 1905 · page 5

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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