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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1906

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Phosphorus and Bush Fires

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 8

SINCE phosphorus has been generally used as a rabbit poison, there can be no doubt that bush fires have become more general throughout the State, and many…

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Disastrous Fire. DAMAGE £150,000

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 3

A FIRE the like of which a largo city in always subject to broke out early on Saturday morning last, in premises occupied by Edwards, Dunlop and Co., Ltd.,…

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The Broken Hill fires

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1906 · page 2

About 1100 men have been thrown out of employment owing to the recent fires in the mines at Broken Hill. The majority of…

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Eight Miles Square of Fire

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 7

The docks and sheds adjoining slided into the bay, and deep fissures opened near the shore. The fires extended over eight square…

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Latest Telegraphic News. Large Fire in Sydney

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire broke out last night on the top, floor of the Austral Chambers, Pitt-street, occupied by the Bile Beans Company. The whole of the…

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Fire at Grogan's Plain. Half-time Public School

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 May 1906 · page 2

An enquiry was held at the building known as the Public half-there School at Grogan's Plain, on Friday last, before Mr. J. H. Montague, Deputy Coroner, to…

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Large Fire in New Zealand

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 4 June 1906 · page 2

The Zealand Hardware Company's premises situated at Dune tin have been destroyed by fine, The insurances reach nearly £50,000…

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Suspicious Fire Near Cooma. Verdict of Arson

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 11 June 1906 · page 2

As enquiry was held at the Court House, Cooma, on 4th June, before Mr.F.H. Galbraith, District cornor, to [?] by what means a fire originated by which…

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Fire at Otago N. Z. Colliery

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 July 1906 · page 2

A fire concurred at the Alexandria colliery, Otago, Four miners are entombed but they have signalied "All well, and is expected they…

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The great fire at Yokohama

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 2

A thousand houses at Yokohama were destroyed by the fire…

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Fire on the s.s. Wakatipu

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1906 · page 2

A fire occurred in a hold of the e,s, Wakatipu but it was discovered when the Vessel was 100 milles out from Sydney, on her voyage to…

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Great fire in Leeds. LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1906 · page 2

A great fire has occurred in Wellington Street, Leeds, England, the damage being a hundred thousands pounds…

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Fires raging at Valparaiso

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 2

Fires are still raging at Valparaiso. Sixty thousand people are homeless. Several inlets have appeared in…

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Fires Which Never Go Out

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 8 October 1906 · page 4

There are domestic fires burning in Yorkshire to-day which, according the "Penny Magazine," have never been out for hundreds of…

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LONDON, Monday. Norman Church damaged by fire

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 22 October 1906 · page 2

The Abbey Church at Selby, Yorkshire, has been ruined fire. The damage is irreparable. The church was one of the [?]…

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Fire in Melbourne suburb

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 November 1906 · page 2

A fire occurred at [?] Dimelow and Garland's drapery establishment, Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, between 7 and 8 o'clock…

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Grass fires in Riverina. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 2

The grass fires on Tarraweena Station still continue. The Kulfora Station is also the sense of a bush fire, and at both places the flames…

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