Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Fires & bushfires, all years

New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1904

157 stories in New England's papers · page 4 of 8

Motor Fire Engines

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 4

If one may believe all that one hears (says the "British Times"), considerable Improvement will have to be made with motor fire engines before they will…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fatal Fire Seven Lives Lost. "A Grim But Brief Fight with Death."

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 May 1904 · page 3

Seven lives were lost in a fire at Duke's Head Passage, a narrow thoroughfare running off Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, early on February 25th…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Fire Clay

The Uralla News · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 4

IT is not generally known that on the Rocky gold fields there is an almost ipexhaustable supply of splendid pipeclay, suitable for the manafacture of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fire Clay

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 June 1904 · page 8

It is not generally known that on the Rocky goldfields there is an almost inexhaustible supply of splendid pipeclay, suitable for the manufacture of…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Fire in Jersey

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 June 1904 · page 4

A great fine has occurred in Jersey city, the damage being estimated at a million sterling…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

A Steamer on Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 June 1904 · page 4

The steamer "Wakool," bound from Melbourne to London, returned to port with a serious fire in her hold. The passengers behaved with great…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

At Port Arthur Effect of the Japanese Fire. Russians Short of Ammunition

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 4 June 1904 · page 4

Mr Ernest Brindle--writes to the "Daily Mail" from Chifu, on 12th March:--Last night at ten o'clock I left Chifu on board the "Daily Mail" despatch boat. The…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fire at Byron

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 8 June 1904 · page 3

On Saturday night last a fire broke out in a hay shed at. Byron which resulted in the loss of about 150 tons of hay, two valuable stud rams, and very narrowly missed…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Forcing Plants by Fire

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 17 June 1904 · page 1

A curious phonomenon connected with the forcing of flowers under somewhat exceptional circumstances was observed not long ago by M. J. Jolly. On the second of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Fire on a Steamer. Great Loss of Life

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 June 1904 · page 4

An excursion steamer was burnt in New York harbor on Wednesday, resulting in great loss of life. A thousand children and 900 adults…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Football and Fire-arms. MELBOURNE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1904 · page 5

A REMARKABLE scene occurred at a junior football match at North Melbourne on Saturday. One of the players flourished a revolver at the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Hanging Fire

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1904 · page 2

FESTINA LENTE—hasten slowly—is very frequently a good maxim to observe where time forms no obstacle to the achievement of an object; but…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

State Fire Insurance Fund

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 June 1904 · page 4

Mr. Waddell has established a State Fire Insurance Fond for insuring the Government properties…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fire on a Steamer. London

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1904 · page 5

AN excursion steamer was burnt in New York harbour on Wednesday, resulting in great loss of life. A thousand children and 900 adults…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Fire in a Woolshed

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1904 · page 2

About half-past 3 o'clock on Saturday morning a fire broke out in Mr. W. G. Campbell's woolshed at Edendale, which resulted in the structure…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Fire Insurance

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 29 June 1904 · page 5

Messrs, J. M'ILveen and Co have handed as a little booklet entitled the History of the great Baltimore fire. This is issued by the Liverpool and…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

A Fatal Fire. Woman Burnt to Death

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 June 1904 · page 3

About 12.30 a.m. on Saturday, Mr. Robert Weare, licensee of the King's Head Hotel, Park and Elizabeth streets, city, being roused by a smell…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

A Steam Engine Without Fire

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 July 1904 · page 7

In Germany, a fireless locomotive is working by steam. It has just been completed at the Hohenzollern works at Dusseld[?]rf, and is one of a type designed for…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Convent Destroyed by Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 4

The Bethlehem Convent at Ashfield was partly destroyed by fire this morning…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fatal Fire at Exeter

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1904 · page 3

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred at Exter, near Moss Ma[?] on Friday night the residence of Thomas Hunnisett, a farmer, being burned to the ground, and…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →