Careless Use of Fire Act
For some sessions past various attempts have been made by Mr T. H. Mate, the member for this district of the Hume, to obtain the legalisation of a Bill to prevent the careless…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires & bushfires, 1866
3 stories in Murray's papers
Lost on the Snowy Mountains. Eight Days in the Snow Without Food or Fire
To the many instances on record of persons lost in the wilds of Australia, and rescued by a singular Providence from a death loo horrible to contemplate, it falls to our lot this week to add a case truly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire at Rutherglen
Through a disaster by fire last Sunday evening, nearly half the business places in Rutherglen have been burned to the ground. The following are the particulars, furnished by the correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →