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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
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LONDON, Monday.—Sir D. Haig reports: —Several fires have been started, one of great size, the flames reaching to a height of 200 feet, and the smoke reaching 5000 feet. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday.—Mr. Hamilton Fyfe reported on Sunday that the German artillery fire was slackening and the British fire increasing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The latest message from the front is re-assuring. The British resistance is solid; numerous attacks during the night were repelled; several attempts to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters reports to-day: —Very slowly, and exacting the heaviest possible toll for every foot of ground, our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Writing from The Hague recently, the "Daily Mail" correspondent quotes from the "Cologne Gazette' Dr. Georg Wegener's account of the part taken by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A slight outbreak of fire occurred at the Ballina District Hospital last Monday owing to an electric light wire fusing and setting the ceiling in the hall on fire. Very little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sensation development arising out of the destructive cane fires that occurred in the Isis distrit (Q.), last season, and which caused so much apprehension to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A fire at Bexley at an early hour this morning destroyed a cottage occupied by Mrs. Isabel Johnson, her sister, and two children. One of the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →VANCOUVER, Wednesday.—A message from Toronto says a fire destroyed the shipbuilding plant, thereby causing a loss of eighty (?) millions sterling and throwing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AMSTERDAM, Wednesday.—A Berlin semi-official message claims that Compeigne railway station and the line connecting Clermont and Amiens are under artillery fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Childers Police Court last week, two unnaturalised Germans, named Max Felgeno and Arthur Danzar, appeared in custody charged conjointly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Friday.—Sir D Haig reports:—The activity of the enemy's artillery and trench mortars increased this morning northward of the Somme, followed by strong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A rather serious fire occurred in a four storey building in Chippendale, at 7 o'clock to-night. It started in premises occupied by a man named Cox, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Honor Mr. Justice Real presided at the Bundaberg sittings of the Circuit Court yesterday, when Max Falgerno and Arthur Danz, two unnaturalised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Tuesday.—A French communique says:—There has been great reciprocal artillery fire at numerous points on the front north of Montdidier and between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out in a building in Market Street the ground floor of which is occupied by the Gloria Light Company, this morning. Dense smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire broke out in the basement of the Gloria Light Company's premises in Clarence-street this morning, but the flames were speedily extinguished by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Here is a word from an Australian soldier at the front:—"Up in the line there was a pint of hot cocoa every night dispensed from a Y.M.C.A. dugout by a great-hearted soul…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Tuesday.—"Le Temps" states that the fire at Friedrichshafen was caused by a bombardment by the Allied airmen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An alarm was given at the Fire Brigade station at a quarter to 9 yesterday morning, and the brigade turned out to a blaze in: the municipal yard near the Methodist…
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