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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires
83 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 5
BUSH fires throughout the State have ravaged most districts worse than a tornado. Valuable properties have been swept away, and numerous families rendered homeless,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I regret to have to report an unpleasant item of news, recording, as it does, a great commercial loss to the district, as well as being disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →If report ii to be trusted, the Creu[?]t factory hat turned out for the French Government a gun capable of effective work at range of twenty miles, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MESSRS. Longley Bros' fine sawmill at Rockvale was burned to the ground last night. The property is reported to have only been insured for £1000. The origin of the fire is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While Mr. Frank Clarke, M.P., was in Kempsey this week, Messrs. J. T. Walker and F. W. Hammond, as representing the Fire Brigade, waited…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A discovery was made last week at Singleton, daring the demolition of a house, of what is probably the cause of large number of mysterious fires. In palling down a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. H. J. Pratt received something of a shock on waking in the small hours of Saturday morning last There was a smell of fire and a sensation that the room was full of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A serious fire occurred at Frederickton during the early hours of Wednesday morning last, when the residence of Mr. W. Lancaster, near…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At about 4 o'clock on Saturday morning last another mysterious outbreak of fire occurred at Mr. H. J. Pratt's premises in Belgrave-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Saturday morning a fire broke out at Piess's Australia Hotel Temora. Despite the efforts of the fire brigade and townsmen the fire spread rapidly in the wooden building, caught the girders of an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DURING a fire at Parkes on Sunday a man was burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Wednesday afternoon last, about a quarter to 5 o'clock, Mr. Samuel Ladd, of Glenthorne, and two other persons were husking corn in that gentleman's barn, when one of them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Monday last, the Hon. E. A. T. Pery, P.M. and Coroner, held an inquiry into the cause of the fire at the residence of Mr. W. J. Lancaster…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A wooden building in South Grafton, formerly known as the Steam Ferry Hotel, but latterly occupied by Mr. E. J. Williams, late of Kempsey and Port…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A great fire occurred at Florida, which 548 of buildings of were destroyed. The length burned in area was 2 miles. Thirteen blocks were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquiry was held in Grafton last week before the Coroner, Mr. McKell, and a jury of 12, into the circumstances attending the fire on the premises of Mr. E. J. Williams…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A disastrous fire has occurred at Messrs. Tillock and Company's warehouse, Liverpool and Kent Streets, the damage is estimated at many thousands of pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out in a barn owned by Mr. J. Riley, of Belmore River, on Saturday, in which some 400 or 500 bushels of corn were destroyed. From particulars to hand it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the same night in Auckland the Grand Hotel was burned causing-the loss of the less than five lives. Three five children were cut off from all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following particulars of the recent fires in Wellington and Auckland are taken from the New Zealand papers: The largest and most destructive fire, that…
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