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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
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A Paris official message states that there was artillery firing along the right and left banks of the Meuse. A German night attack to the west of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bombardments affect different animals in different ways. Dogs, as a rule, show great distress when shells burst near them and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weatherboard premises occupied as a fruit shop by Mrs. Long, at the corner of Pine and Terania streets, North Lismore, were destroyed by fire last night. The outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—A fire with a fatal result occurred at Croydon at the residence of Mr. R. A. Price, memoer for Gloucester. All the members of the family were asleep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire destroyed a three-roomed weatherboard house at Auburn early this morning, and the occupants escaped from the burning building after saving a few…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French official message dated Sunday says the Germans repeatedly attacked Dead Man's Hill, using liquid [?] fire. All attempts were repulsed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AMSTERDAM, Saturday.—An Austrian communique states:—We repulsed the Italians south-east of Orzili. Enemy attacks on the Dolomite front failed. Seaplanes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly before midnight on Thursday night a fire broke out in the Northumberland Hotel at Cessnock. The licensee, Mrs. Austey, noticed the reflection of a fire and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire at the Northumberland Hotel Cessnock, on Friday night, did considerable damage. The inmates escaped in their night wear. Miss Gowing, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Half of Winn's triangular block which is bounded by Oxford, Liverpool and Yurong-streets, City was either destroyed or damaged by fire or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—At six o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the triangular block bounded by Oxford, Liverpool, and Yurong streets, the bulk store of Winn's big…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday.—The "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent gives details of the capture of Avidniki, 25 miles north-west of Lutsk. The Russians, he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.—At six o'clock on Saturday morning a firo broke out in the triangular block bounded by Oxford, Liverpool, and Yurong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The police express the opinion that certain fires which occurred in large city premises were the work of an incendiary with an expert knowledge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ancient, lovely, and very lovable little city of Verdun is being slowly destroyed by German incendiary shells poured into it blindly from a distance of at least five or six…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →According to an American observer, the Germans in their attack on Verdun are endeavoring to conserve their infantry lords as much as is possible…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In many parts of the world there are Sacred fires said to have been burning for upwards of a thousand years. Such is the sacred lire of Beheram, reputed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some little time ago the Municipal Council was in communication with the Fire Commissioners with a view to securing a suitable site for the new Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports from Amsterdam stale that a German deserter has arrived in Holland. He says that he made up his mind to desert when he was sent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Paris official message says that after violent fighting the French recaptured the Thiaumont work occupied by the enemy…
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