Bush Fires in Tasmania
TELEGRAMS from Hoban on Sunday to the ' S. M. Herald ' give details of the bush fires which began on Mount Wellington on Friday and show that the devastation has…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
16 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
Destructive Bush Fires in Victoria and New Zealand
A WIRE from Melbourne on Saturday says:-Telegrams are being constantly received from the Gippsland district stating that the bush fires are raging with auabated fury. Many hundreds of settlers…
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REFERRING to the destructive bush fires lately experienced in Victoria, the Australasian says:—"You could not have stamped it out in its infancy?" a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Northern Star. Saturday Morning, 12Th February 1898. Rush Fires in Southern Colonies
IT is heartrending to read the details of the destruction wrought by bush fires in the colo…
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As sample of the hardships gone through by Victorian setting during the late bush fires in that colony the Australian has the following:—Mr. Arthur Pobjoy, a settler of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Paddon's Hotel
An inquest was held on Tuesday last, before Mr. K. Ross, District Coroner, at the Woodburn Coutt-house, touching the burning of the building at Evans River known as Paddon's…
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LITTLE more than twenty-four hours after leaving the winter fogs and chilling gloom of London the traveller quest of the warmth and sunshine of the south of France finds…
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SOME curious facts are mentioned with regard to the safes excavated from the ruins of the great fire in London. One safe by a leading firm had the brass…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire-walking in Fiji
DRS.HOCKEN and Colquhoun, of Dunedin, during their recent visit to Fiji, had an opportunity of seeing a rather rare sight there, the feat of "fire-walking." As they…
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AN inquiry, concerning the fire which partly destroyed Mr. A. Currie's premises at North Lismore on the morning of the 21st, was held at Cogan's Hotel on Monday morning by the Coroner (Dr. L…
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THE oft—occurring burning fatalities which are chronicled throughout the colony and elsewhere, the victims of which are generally children of tender years, seem to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire at Cross's Menagerie. wild Animals Burnt to Death
A CADLEGRAM published in August last gave a brief account of a disastrous fire at Cross's famous menagerie at Liverpool. The following details are from the Daily News of August 26:—Between 2 and…
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One of the largest and most disastrous fires known in Sydney occurred at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon in Regent-street, Redfern. The first intimation those in the city had of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Ship on Fire. The s.s. Buteshire Ablaze
EARLY Wednesday morning; a destrctive fire broke out on board the ship Buteshire, lying at Smith's Wharf, Miller's.Point. The Vessel had just completed discharging her cargo, and was practically…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Destructive Fires
THE R. R. Times writes: Saturday, October 29th, 1898, will long be remembered as the most disastrous day that has yet visited the Richmond River. Some 70 acres of cane had been burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Extinguishing Fires
ONE of the beat agents for extinguishing fires, according to the Natural Druggist, is liquid ammonia, without any addition whatever. We have personally any experience with the…
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