Big Adelaide Fire. £20,000 Damage
Adelaide,—Damage to the extent of more than £20,900 was done yesterday morning when a block of buildings occupied chiefly by Wilcox,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1928
442 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 23
ALtTAR Catches Fire. Tamworth Sensation
The presence of mind of several numbers of the congregation averted what might have been a disastrous fire at St. Nicholas'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Jeweller's0 Window. Contents Destroyed
The great heat of yesterday is supposed to have caUsed a fire in one of the windows of A. Saunders, jeweller, in Central Square…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fire Terror. Again Abroad in Victoria
Disastrous bush fires are reported from Victoria and South Australia. At Wangaratta thousands of acres of dairying land were swept and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Bush Fires. Victorian Farmers Suffer. Sydney
Many farmers have been burnt out as the result of bush fires in Victoria. The damage estimated already is £150,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Raging. Eight Horses Incinerated. MELBOURNE
Disastrous bush fires raged at Benalla (Victoria) yesterday. Eight horses were caught in the flames and incinerated, while sheds, grass, stacks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Garage Fires. Incendiarism Suspected. SYDNEY
Fires were discovered last night in separate motor garages at Wollongong. Incendiarism is suspected, as there were two similar occurrences in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Badly Burned. Fire at Maryborough. BRISBANE
Early this morning a lire occurred at the residence of Alex Fairlie, in Richmond Street, Maryborough, when a building was completely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in a Bank. Flames Soon Extinguished. SYDNEY
A fire was discovered in the dressing room of the Commercial Bank of Australia, at the corner of Margaret and George Streets, city, last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Constable Saves Two Lives. Fire at 3 A.M. Sydney
Coustable Blench saw smoke pouring from a restaurant in Darlinghu[?] at 3 a.m. to-day, and promptly, summoned the fire briga[?] He then climbed up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Sea. Men's Epic Fight with Flames. Fifteen Survivors of Schooner. Sydney
The steamer "Niagara," which Atrived at Auckland, brought further particulars of the fire which broke out on the schooner "Doris Crane,"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Bush Fires
Many farmers have been burnt out as the result of bush fires in Victoria. The damage estimated already is £150,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Southern Districts Suffer Wagga, Albury and Victoria
A bush fire started on the Government experiment farm, three miles from Wagga, on Saturday afternoon, and for a time valuable farm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Engine Overturns
When the Cessnock five brigade was proceeding to a fire on Saturday night the fire Engine overturned as a result of a wheel getting into a deep rut, and Constable Martin,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Altar Catches Fire Tamworth Church Sensation
The presence of mind of several members of the congregation averted what might have been a disastrous fire at St. Nicholas…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in a Bank. Flames Soon Extinguished
A fire, was discovered in the dressing room of the Commercial Bank of Australia, at the corner of Margaret and George Streets, city, last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£150,000 DAMAGE Victorian Bush Fires
Reports from Wangaratta, Beechworth, and Wodonga, State that the bush fires are practically under control. The total damage by the fires…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Blazed. But Youths Would No[?] Help
Between 400 and 500 acre[?] acres of good grazing country were went by fire in the first outbreak of the season in the Yass (N.S.W.) district…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Horses Roasted. Five-mile Bush Fire. Exhausted Fighters
Fanned by a high northerly wind, a bush fire, having a five-mile front, caused great [?]avoc on the western side of Benalla (Victoria) on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mail Destroyed. by Fire and Water. Sydney
Ten bags of mail fop Queensland Stations were destroyed when a van attached to Brisbane mail train caught fire between Brae[?]eld and Quirindi…
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