Bush Fire Brigades
Inquiries have been made as to whether Victorian municipal couacils can legally defray the cost of equipment and, if necessary, the…
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397 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 20
Blaze at Yackandandah
A bush fire broke out at the foot of Big Ben Ranges, near Yackundandah, on Thursday, but was got under without damage. On Saturday, during…
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A butcher's assistant, travelling on his round to Reedy Creek,-neat Broadford, on Monday ran over a box of matches which was lying on the road…
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A disastrous fire broke out at 2 o'clock on Thursday morning in Lang-free avenue. Within an hour of the outbreak being discovered, the…
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Another fire swept through Coppabella on Saturday and Sunday, which caused great destruction of grass ana fencing on the Holmans' and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cables. London, Tuesday. Fire in a Church
EIGHTEEN NEGROES KILLED. During service in a Baptist Church in Philadelphia a cry of fire was raised…
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The track of the fire demon is very evident to anyone taking a run through the stricken area. During a motor car run…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outbreak at Round Hill. the Fire on Yarra Yarra. Still Burning. Germanton
On Monday afternoon a grass fire broke out on Mr J. H. Balfour's Round Hill Station, Culcairn. It was quickly subdued after burning about The fire which has been burning on Yarra Yarra for the past few days has now been extinguished on the northern boundary of the property. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires. Outbreak at Toora. Eight Persons Perish. Toora
A bush fire is raging around Mount Best and Mount Fatigue, near Toora. Ten families have been burnt out. At Lonsdale six children have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Fire in Flour Mills
A fire occurred in Simms flour mills in Kent-street to-day. The fire was confined to the top storey of the building, and was extinguished before…
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Messrs. Anderson Bros., the owners of Brocklesby Estate, have been adviced that an enquiry will be held at the Court House to-day (Friday,…
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A correspondent at [?] signing himself "One Who Knows," writes about the [?] fires, traversing certain statement in last issue. He…
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The season of the year during which bush fires are to be feared has now begun, and we have been requested by the Government to invite attention to…
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The list of the victims claimed by the Gippsland bush fires is being added to. The charred body of a man named Thomas Butler, who was travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires. The Whitton Cemetery Burnt
A bash fire broke out, writes our Whitton correspondent, on Monday afternoon, with in a mile of Wilga homestead, the back station of Kooba. A number of the Whitton…
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ALBURY, Monday.—Further particulars are to hand respecting the disastrous bush fire which started at Huon, and swept through Gerogery…
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A fire of extreme intensity, and resulting in several deaths, occurred to-day. A bush fire started yesterday at Shepherd's Flat, five miles from Daylesford, but…
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The bush fires which broke out, in the Mount Fatigue, Mount Best, and South Gippsland districts on Tuesday have devastated great areas of country. Hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bush Fires. (Continued from page 39.) Railway Concessions to Sufferers. Sydney
In connection with the disastrous bush fires which have been devastating parts of the country during the past few days, the Railway Commissioners have had under…
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