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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
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BRISBANE, Friday.—A disastrous fire occurred at Sandgate early this morning. Four buildings were completely destroyed. At least three of the buildings might…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Brown and Poulson's large cornflour mills at the corner of Church and University Streets, Camperdown, were completely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VANCOUVER, Saturday.—The Montreal City Hall has been destroyed by fire. Mayor Martin estimates the uninsured loss at £2,000,000 sterling, without counting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The factory of Brown and Poison Ltd., cornflour, maizena and starch manufacturers at Layton-street, Newtown, was practically destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A disastrous fire occurred at Camper down early this afternoon when Wade's corn Hour factory, a five-storied building, was completely gutted. The alarm was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The inquiry into the mysterious fires at the home of Walter Rendall, journalist and artist, at Darling Point, was concluded to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a line of buildings which jut out into the back yard from the Crown Hotel, Grafton, two fires occurred over the week end, the first at 11 o'clock on Saturday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Bush fires broke out on property leased by Orange Plains station, and about 2000 acres of grass was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a line of buildings which jut out into the back yard from the Crown Hotel Grafton, two fires occurred over the week end, the first at 11 o'clock on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A gas explosion and fire caused a loss approximating £15,000 to the Shell Company of California in its operations on Signal Hill, a few miles from Long Beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the progress of a heavy storm which broke over Cessnock. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon the Cessnock Fire Brigade received a call to a cottage on the Wollombi…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Thursday last the newly erected grandstand in the Byron Bay Soldiers' Memorial Park narrowly escaped destruction by fire. It appears that someone was camping in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances attending an outbreak of fire in the Commercial Hotel premises on 19th January…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Saturday.--A big [?] in Ma[?] street, Wellington, last night, [?] building, most [?] houses. Many people have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.—A fire in a residential part of the city destroyed teu residences. The damage s estimated at 30,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To find, after returning from the pictures at Mullumbimby on Saturday night that their home was nothing more than a heap of blackened ruins, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The greater part of the building, occupied by Henley Bros., Botany, wool scourers, was destroyed by fire to-day. The damage is estimated at £2000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early this morning, one or the biggest fires in the history of the district was discovered in the largest store in the town and the premises of S. Major, Ltd., were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Major's large wooden store at Kiama was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. The commercial bank-suffered severely. Over £1500 will…
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