Bush Fires
We learn that bash-fires arc again creating much devastation. Mr. Steer, of Mahonga, was completely burnt out on Wednesday, and the fire had then started on the Bulgandra property,…
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We learn that bash-fires arc again creating much devastation. Mr. Steer, of Mahonga, was completely burnt out on Wednesday, and the fire had then started on the Bulgandra property,…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →REPORTS are to hand that fires on Mulwala Station have been burning for some days past. Further particulars are not yet available but we believe that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first bush fire in the Urana district this year broke out on Saturday morning near the boundary of Rudd’s Colombo Station, and fanned by the hot north-west wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the committee of the Hay Rowing Club was held last night at Tattersall's Hotel. There were present:—Dr. Kennedy (in the chair),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A little before midnight on Sunday the fire bell rang [?] and there was the usual hurry-scurry through the streets of townspeople anxious to learn the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →At the police court yesterday, before the P.M., a young man named Frederick Walker was charged with carelessly using fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONCE, more the season for bash fires has come round, and once again there is the usual necessity for the advocacy of special legislation in connection with them, It is idle to say that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A large and representative meeting for the purpose of organising a Bush Fire Brigade was held at the Athenaeum last night. Dr. Kennedy occupied the chair. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday evening a public meeting was held at the Athenaeum under the auspices of the Rowing Club to take steps to form a brigade to assist in extinguishing bush…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following regulations have been adopted by the committee of the Bush Fire Brigade: The alarm shall be given to Mr. R. C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A destructive fire occurred at 11 o’clock last Saturday night at a cottage occupied by Mrs. Rogers, a widow, in Finch-street, Beechworth. The fire quickly extended to an…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The proceedings in the adjourned coroner’s Inquest on the late fire in D[?]n-street, were resumed on Monday. Mr. J. Wilkinson, on behalf of Mr. Finney…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →The action instituted by Hiddle Petty and Co against the National Insurance Company of New Zealand, to recover the sum of £ 1000, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The members of the brigade were again called out for duty on Friday evening last, a messenger having been sent in by Mr. Hill to say that a fire, which had been burning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday evening, about 7 o'clock, a messenger arrived from Barrabogie with the information that another largo fire had broken out on the back of the run, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Monday, about one o'clock, the fire bell was rung vigorously, and at the first peal a rush was made to the fire station, and in a very few minutes the firemen had the reel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The fire-place may be one of the most attractive features of a room both summer and There is no reason why any grate be bare when one can get a large…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A fire occurred at Zeehan on Sunday night, when a two-roomed cottage was destroyed and two little girls, aged respectively six and four years old, the daughters of A. G. Phelps, the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →An interesting action brought by Hiddle, Petty, and Co., storekeepers, of Berrigan, near Jerilderie, against the National Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zeland…
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