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Murray · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1906

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Fire in Church Street. a Dwelling Destroyed

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 3

The lengthened immunity that Hay has enjoyed from outbreaks of house fires was broken on Saturday night, when the fire-bell rang out a warning summons about half-past…

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The Fire in the Balranald and Ivanhoe Districts

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 1

Information as to the area of country swept by the recent disastrous bush fires in the back country is but scanty…

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CHILTERN Tuesday. Chiltern Fire Brigade

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 12 December 1906 · page 4

The annual meeting took place last evening. Captain Sexton was in the chair. There was a large attendance. A light supper was spread…

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Bush Fire

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 5

A bush fire broke out at the north end of K[?]deen Station three miles from Culcairn on Monday. Mr. Blair, manager of Kiradeen, received news…

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Islands of Fire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 28

Tidings have reached London of an adventurous trip which an intrepid mountain climber, Mr. Robert Dunn, is making to the eastern half of the Aleutian Islands,…

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Series of Fires. Incendiaries Punished. London, December 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 43

Four men were arrested a few weeks ago ii connection with a number of mysterious fires which occurred in the London suburb of Croydon. A long series of these…

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After the Fire. Reconstructing San Francisco

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 3

It was expected that the work of reconstructing San Francisco would have proceeded much more expeditiously than has been the case. Eight months have elapsed…

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Students Perish. Fire at a University. London, December 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 43

A shocking fire has occurred in connection with the Cornell University, at Ithaca, in the state of New York. Flames were discovered at night in what is known as…

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Bushfire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 33

A bush fire broke out at South Hay Common on Saturday. A number of towns-people hastened o the scene of the fire and confined it to a small area along the…

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The Recent Bush Fires in the Back Country. Hundreds of Miles of Country Swept. The Fire Raging fop a Month

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

Particulars of the great bush fires which have been burning on Kilfera, Manfred, Teryawynia, Mount Manara and other stations have been difficult to obtain. We are…

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Fire at Launceston

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 33

A destructive fire broke out on Thursday night in Messrs. Charles Adams and Sons timber yard^ Cameron-street, in" the centre of a block bounded by Cameron,…

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Tocumwal Police Court. Police V. Fire and Others

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 2

At the Tocumwal Police Court on Friday, before Mr T. H. Wilkinson, P.M. John Martin Fyle was charged under Section 69, Sub-section 1, of the…

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Terrible Street Accident. Run Down by Motor Fire-engine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 December 1906 · page 43

A shocking accident occurred in the principal thoroughfare of Wellington (N.Z.) on Monday afternoon. When Mrs. Kensington, the wife of Mr. W. C. Kensington,…

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New South Wales Sydney, Wednesday. Fire in a Fish Shop

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 December 1906 · page 3

Early this morning a fire broke out in Comino's fish and oyster shop in Pitt-street and destroyed the premises. The inmates sleeping in the place had a…

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Fire Worshippers' Doom

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 15

In the eighteenth century a sect flourished in Russia, all the members of which swore to end their lives by fire. Thousands of people carried out their vow…

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The Grass Fire Season. District Outbreaks

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 December 1906 · page 2

Yesterday, at noon, a telephonic message was sent into Hay to the effect that a grass fire was raging on Illillawa, in the West Wash Paddock, and the volume of smoke to…

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Risks of Grass Fires

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 29 December 1906 · page 6

In view of the Approach of the "bush fire season," Mr. A. A. Billson again raised the question in the Victorian Legislative Assembly the…

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