Bush Fires. Fire on Collendina
On Christmas Day a fire broke out on portion of the Collendina estate under lease to Messrs. Minogne Bros., but fortunately was but out before it…
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275 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 14
The Big Bush Fire
Yesterday, extremely sultry conditions prevailed. The strong north-westerly and westerly winds raised clouds of dust, while. in the direction…
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A series of outbreaks of bush fires around the Jerilderie district heralded the approach of the Christmas holidays. The warm weather and the…
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The weather in Forbes for the holiday season has been extremely hot, due in part to the presence of bush fires in the district. A blaze at Daroobalgie destroyed…
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Christmas week will long be remembered in Jerilderie as a week of bush fires. Up to Saturday, 22nd December, except for an outbreak on…
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Hundreds of thousands of acres of grass and timber country in the Gunbar and Greenhills district, near Hay, have been swept by fire, which is burning on a face…
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Between 1 and 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon a fire broke out in a 50-acre wheat crop of Mr. J. Doolan, on the Tumbarumba-road, adjoining Toole's Creek…
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Yesterday morning as the second division of the Melbourne express was steaming into Springhurst the guard noticed that a fire was breaking out in the grass…
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The extraordinary conflagration at Solonika. which has rendered nearly 100,000 persons homeless, and has done damage estimated at 40,000,000, calls to mind a…
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On Thursday ut midday another fire was observed to break out about 7. or 8 miles north-east from this town near the railway line at Mr Con…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Hillston-gunbar District Fire. (To the Editor "Riverine Grazier")
Sir,—Being among the probable beneficiaries by the checking of the late huge fire in the Hillston district, we trust you will grant us space in…
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On Thursday morning as the second division of the Melbourne express was steaming into Springhurst (Vic.), the guard noticed that a fire was breaking…
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Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, a grass fire was seen to be burning on Clare-Alma, and the surrounding people quickly went to cope with it…
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Fires in the North-western wheat belt of Victoria, destroyed 300 acres of standing wheat, estimated to yield 15 bushels to the acre…
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At about 6 p.m. on Tuesday last after several vivid flashes of lightning a fire was seen by residents in the vicinity to start on the southern end…
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The weather during the past week has been very hot, and on Tuesday, and Wednesday afternoons bush fires were started as the result…
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A bush fire broke out on Mr. Robt. McKenzic's farm near the 1[?]-mile peg on the main Urana road on Tuesday afternoon, at about 4.36 o'clock. Mr…
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During the week disastrous bush fires have raged throughout the district, and as a result probably 40,000 acres of grass have been destroyed, while one landholder had…
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Bush fires are still raging in the Broken Hill district. They are burning within ten miles of Cogmbah, an outstation of Cuthero, but are heading towards the waste…
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A bush fire broke out on Mr Jas. O'Brien's cultivation paddock eight miles east from Jerilderie on Friday afternoon last, on the north-east…
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