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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1904

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Bash Fires

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 5

Destructive bush fires are reported from the South Coast. Outbreaks are also reported from other parts of the State…

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Sydney Fire Brigade

The Inverell Argus · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

The latest addition to the apparatus of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade of Sydney, is a new powerful chemical fire engine propelled by a…

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The Fire Brigade

The Inverell Argus · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

The local Fire Brigade, under Captain T. J. Keating, had a trial run on Wednesday night. With six hundred yards of hose and the engine in the…

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Beware of Fire

The Inverell Argus · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

In view of the thickness of the herbage and the fact that this herbage is ripening and therefore getting drier rapidly, the danger of bush…

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A Disastrous Fire

The Inverell Argus · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 4

A most disastrous fire occurred at Bogamildi on Monday night resulting in the total destruction of the Methven Saw Mills, the property of…

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New Light on the Chicago Fire

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 4

An interesting little story is being told relative to the great Chicago fire. It does not deny the time-honoured tradition that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp…

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The Sketcher. the Great London Fire Ring

The Inverell Argus · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 6

One May morning, some twelve years ago, a young constable, off duty and in plain clothes, was strolling aimlessly along a back street in Camberwell. He had a…

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Bush Fires at Manilla

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1904 · page 2

LARGE bush fires have been raging on Ukolan Station and other eastern parts. At Rangiri fires have swept miles of country. A terrible fire raged through some of the Durham Court paddocks on…

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Bush Fires. Sydney, Monday, 12.58 P.m

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1904 · page 2

BUSH fires have broken out in the Gloucester, Paterson Moruya, and Bega districts…

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Telegraphic. [Through Our Metropolitan Agents.] Bush Fires. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1904 · page 5

BUSH fires have broken out in the Gloucester, Paterson, Moruya, and Bega districts…

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Carele[?]s Use of Fire

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1904 · page 2

PUBLIC attention is directed to the following clauses from the Act relating to the careless use of fire:--Whosoever ignite, or uses, or curries when ignited, any…

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General News. Destructive Fire. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1904 · page 5

ENVILLE Hall, the famous mansion of the Countess Stamford in Staffordshire, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £100,000. Some pictures by old…

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The Sketcher. the Great London Fire Ring

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 30 November 1904 · page 2

One May morning, some twelve years ago, a young constable, off duty and in plain clothes, was strolling aim[?]ssly along a back street in Camberwell. He had a…

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Bush Fires

The Inverell Argus · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 2

Other parts of the State are suffering fearfully from the effects of the fires that are sweeping across the country burning the herbage and…

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"Fire Away"

The Inverell Argus · Thursday 1 December 1904 · page 2

Men of every tribe and nation, men of every creed and hue Watch the progress of the war with interest dread…

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Strikers Fire on Town. London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 2 December 1904 · page 4

Miners on strike in Illinois, U.S.A., caused much alarm among the inhabitants by firing into the town all night from an ambush Gatling guns answered the fire until the…

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The Sketcher. the Great London Fire Ring

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 4

One May morning, sonic twelve years ago, a young constable, off duty and in plain clothes, was strolling aimlessly along a back street in Camberwell. He had a…

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Bush Fire

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

A disastrous bush fire was raging at Molong Station, Canowindra district, on Saturday. The crops were destroyed, and over 300 stud sheep were lost in one paddock…

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Bush Fires at Manilla

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 4

Large bush fires have been raging on Ukolan Station and other eastern parts. At Rangiri fires have swept miles of…

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Numerous Fires. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

HENRY SEARGE and Company's warehouse at Fremantle was destroyed by fire last night, many persons being injured by the flying debris. The damage is estimated…

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