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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
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Another serious outbreak occurred at Dalby yesterday, and as a result several buildings have been completely destroyed. The fire broke out between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Wednesday.—A communique says: —A destructive fire was maintained on the enemy'a"works north-east of boissons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Reuter's corrcspondent at 'British'liead quarters states:—A. year ago drafts from home were nearly all sent promptly to trenches, because the enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The American Club buildings at Toronto (Canada) were destroyed by fire following upon an explosion. One person…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The decision to fire into the mutineers from the Liverpool Camp was come to after due consideration, and the soldiers who were out of hand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—News from Paris states that a destructive fire was kept up on the enemy organisations towards Steenatraete and opposite Boesinghe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire at Inverell destroyed Ross, Ltd., stores, doing damage to the extont of several thousand pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The configagration in New York burned So fiercely that residents in Manhattan thought a large section of the lower city was aflame. The loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Bangalow correspondent writes:—What might have proved a very serious conflagration was averted just in time on Thursday evening, when Mrs. Cummings, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At 3.30 yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, an alarm of fire and the sight of dense smoke issuing from Mrs. Noonan's business premises, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A serious bush fire broke out near Albury, travelling nine miles on a two miles front through good farming land, and causing much damage. More than…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Thursday night last what might have been a disastrous fire occurred at the residence of Mr. A. Withers, Lennox-street, South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Olympia Hall and Norfolk Hotel at Taniworth were destroyed by fire, the damage being £4000 sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A destructive bush fire occurred in the Kyucton district, 30,000 acres being swept by the flames. Several homesteds narrowly escaped. Fencing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A statement of revenue and expenditure in the Murwillumbah Fire District, forwarded by the Fire Brigades' Board to the local Council shows for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday night last what might have been a disastrous fire occurred at the residence of Mr. A. Withers, Lennox-street, South Casino. At the time of the fire Mrs. Withers and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thomas Birrell was charged at the Byron Bay Police Court on 17th February, 1916, that on 14th February be did maliciously set fire to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—At the inquiry into a fire which occurred in Ortona Buildings, Wentworth Avenue, a witness named William Crooks stated that he saw benzine or petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—Mumblebone homestead at Warren, belonging to Kater Bros., was struck by lightning yesterday and totally destroyed by fire. While the housekeeper was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AMSTERDAM, Sunday.—The German newspapers admit appalling losses northward of Verdun. The "Frankfurter Zeitung," describing the battle, says that the German…
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