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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

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Fire Checked at Corowa 80 Properties Affected

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

Rain set in on Monday night, and the bush fires in the district have been checked. The [?] of wheat through Sunday’s fire in the wheat…

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Mittagong Encircled by Fires. Women and Men Fighting the Flames. Mittagong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 39

The whole of the country on all Bides of Mittagong has been ablaze, and on Friday the fire swept along the Mittagong Range and through the valley with great velocity…

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The Bush Fires

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 3

The Minister for Lands has intimated to sufferers by the bush fires that they may use for grazing purposes the Government reserved, where…

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Bush Fires. Losses in Wheat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 4

An Albury gentleman, who is in a position to speak authoritatively upon the question, being intimately connected with the wheat trade, and has full…

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Fires on a Steamer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

The fire which recently occurred in the third hold of the s.s. Buteshire on her way from New York to Melbourne has broken out broken out afresh…

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Fatal, Fire

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 3

A serious fatal fire occurred to-day at upper Paddington. A woman and two children were burnt to death, being unable to escape from the burning…

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Advances to Settlers Board. the Chairman in Albury. Fire Cases to Take Precedence

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 4

Mr. O'Mulley [?] Chairman of the [?] Advanced to Settlers board [?] in Albury yesterday morning Mr. Wood interviewed the mayor and…

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Bush Fires. Bush Fires Relief Fund

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

Mr. R.M. Wilkinson, the mayor of Albury, calls by advertisement a public meeting for to-night at the council chambers. The objects of the meeting…

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Prisons Set on Fire by Rioters

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 3

Rioters in Kharkoff, a town about 500 miles south of Moscow, have set fire to the prisons there…

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Bush Fires

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 3

An officer of the advances to settlers board arrived at Albury on Friday from Sydney to ascertain if the board could bo of service to the burnt…

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Origin of Bush Fires

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 2

Mr. T. E. Corrigan writes, rather ungraciously, contradicting certain. protions of our report in last issue, He denies that Sunday's fire…

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Public Meeting. Bush Fires Relief Fund

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 2

A public meeting was held last evening in the Albury Council chambers, The mayor Mr.R.M. Wilkinson occupied the chair. About sixty…

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Last Week's Bush Fires. In the Murrumbidgee Valley. The Big Stations Burnt

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 4

The extent of the fire in the Murrumbidgee Valley is perhaps best gathered from the list given below of the big pastoral properties which have…

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Original Correspondence. Suggested Relief to Sufferers by the Recent Bush Fires. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 2

Sir,—I have read in the Grazier of the 6th inst. reports of some of the losses caused by the bush fires in the Waggs, Gundagai, Culcairn and other districts, and…

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More Fires

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 2

A fire broke out in a stubble paddock at Mulwala Station on Saturday morning, but was got under by the use of water-Carts. About 500…

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Careless Use of Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 3

At Chiltern Police Court last Wednesday, the nion, David Woodburn, who was arrested on Friday at Barn awatha. was charged with tho careless…

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The Fire and Its Effects

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 3

After my trip through cardale and Goombargona on Wednesday and Thursday I yesterday set out again accompained by Mr. John Thompson…

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Fire in Albury

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 3

A small fire giving a good blaze broke out in Spencer-street, Albury at 3.30 this morning. The flames were first seen by Constable Ling, who…

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Nearly a Fire

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 4

On Sunday night last Mr. Watson's Royal Hotel had a narrow escape from being burnt to the ground. It appears that the window curtains in one of the bedrooms…

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The Recent Bush Fires

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 4

The lot of the inland settler is not altogether one to be envied. His life in one long struggle with nature, in her most capricious moods. Sow he…

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