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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires
96 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 5
THe peaceful calm of Sunday night last in Taree was rudely disturbed about 1 o'clock by the ringing of the fire bell and several persons running through the town shouting " Fire" Vivid recollections of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ONCE again Kempsey has had a miracle escape from fire, and once again a warning has gone out that things in respect of fire are not what they should be. It is natural…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A bush fire is raging in the Condobolin district. At Messrs. Haley Brothers' station, Newlands, the fire came to within 60 yards of the homestead,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KEMPSEY on Sunday is perhaps the quietest town in New South Wales, but about 1 p.m. on last Sabbath the peaceful calm of the place was rudely…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A MEETING, called by the Mayor, to consider the advisability of putting the Fire Brigade on a satisfactory footing, was held in the Good Templars' Hall on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another very severe earthquake has occurred, this time at Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, and, as at San Francisco, fire followed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A MEETING of the committee of the Kempsey Fire Brigade was held on Wednesday evening last. Mayor Small presided, and Messrs. J. Bryson, T. P…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The danger of tall apartment buildings was illustrated by a terrible fire at Kansas City early on the morning of 25th October. The fire started in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the committee of the kempsey Fire Brigade was held on Wednesday evening last. Mayor Small previded and Messrs. J. Bryson, T. P. Savage, H. Pratt Jos. Walker, H. O. Levell…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The sacred lire of Israel, according to Mr. F. H. Balkwill, in the "Nine- . teenth Century," was a composition of naphtha or liquid bitumen known…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE long-expected has occurred at last Early on Thursday morning the business portion of Central Kempsey was nearly wiped out. For years past the ARGUS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The greatest natural wonder in Java if not in the entire world, is the justly celebrated Gheko Kamdka Gumko. or ''Home of the Hot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible fire occurred at Kempsey this morning when half of the town was destroyed. The alarm of fire was given about twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farther accounts of the disastrous on flagration at Kempsey show that at about [?] minutes to 4 o'clock on Thursday morning the alarm was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FROM the report in Saturday's Macleay Argus we are enabled to give further details of the big fire which destroyed 15 business places and residences in Smith-street, Kempsey, in the early hours of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT was about half-past three on Thursday morning when Kempsey was roused out of Slumber to witness a terrible spectacle. Mr. Norman Savage was aroused by the reflection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CLARENCE Examiner Writes:—The Sympathy of the Clarence river people will be readily extended to the residents of Kempsey who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR readers will by this time have been made aware of the terrible calamity with which we, which other business persons in smith Street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A firm in London are introducing an electric automatic metropolitan police whistle, slightly penetrating through the wall protected by an air-brick, with wire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Late on the night of 9th November, the New York police arrested a youth named Frank Morris, who is accused of attempting to burn a large block of…
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