Huge Bush Fire. Canberra Invested
Sydney, Friday. A fire with an extensive front menaced Canberra. The latest news states that 20 men along a five miles front fought the flames…
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Fires & bushfires, 1926
1,375 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 69
Bush Fires Raging Canberra Outbreak Fighting the Flames Big Blaze in the West Sydney
The bush fire at Canberra now has a front of 20 miles, the whole of the Federal territory being covered with a thick pall of smoke. The flames, however, are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fighting the Flames Extensive Bush Fires. 20-Mile Front at Canberra. Fire Fighters Exhausted
SYDNEY, Friday. The fire at Canberra now has a front of 20 miles, the whole of the Federal territory being covered with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cane Destroyed by Fire
On Tuesday last, Mr. William Kenny, of Barney's Point, Tweed River, had the misfortune to have several acres of one-year-old Badilla cane…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Fairy Hill MR. H. Caisley's Residence
To set out from home thinking that everything would be alright, only to be told a short time later that his home had been completely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrific Explosions When Electric Wires Cross at Manly. Women rush Screaming with Fear Telephones are Wrecked and Fires Started
SYDNEY, Friday. At Manly, early this morning, a City Council hgih tension electric wire, carrying a current of 5000 volts, snapped and fell across…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires. Outbreaks Over Wide Area
SYDNEY,Monday.- Report from the Upper Murray and Southern Table lands indicate that has been the worst year bash fires since 1900…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Much Damage Done in Cotter District. 500 Men Fighting the Flames
SYDNEY, Saturday. In the Cotter and Uriarra districts five hundred men are fighting bush fires. Many thousands of pounds worth of damage has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Haymarket Blaze
SYDNEY, Monday.- A fire, which broke out at Powell's furniture works, Parker-stret, Haymarket, on Sunday night,-caused considerable damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Haymarket Blaze Fire at Furniture Works. Flames Confined to One Floor. Much Damage
SYDNEY, Sunday. A fire, which broke out at Powell's furniture works, Parker Street, Haymarket tonight, caused considerable damage to the first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country Fires Business Places Destroyed Moree
Messrs. Davis Bros.' large general store was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Sparks from the building set alight to other business premises, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Recent City Fire. Man Committed Foe Trial
SYDNEY, Monday.—The city coroner held an inquiry concerning three distinet fire which occarred in a boarding fire house oceupied by Ameiin Johnson…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A City Fire Furniture Works Damaged Sydney
A fire which broke out at Powell's furniture works, Parker-street, Haymarket, to-night caused considerable damage to the first floor, but the firemen prevented the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →House on Fire Man Committed for Trial Sydney
The city coroner held an inquiry concerning three distinct fires which occurred in a boarding house occupied by Amelia Johnson and her husband at Underwood-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wall of Fire Fifty Miles in Length. Tremendous Bush Fires do Incalculable Damage in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Monday.--As a climax to a week of very trying weather, Melbourne yesterday experienced the hottest day since January, 1824, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Riverina Fires a Boy's Carelessness Sydney
Reports received to-day state that bush fires are still raging in the Riverina. A motor lorry which was keeping the volunteers supplied with food was overtaken by…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday:-Bush fires in the Albury district have swept over 100,000 acres of grass and timber country. The forestry officer expresses the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blaze at Fairy Hill
A cottage situated at Fairy Hill, occupied by Mr. S. H. Caisley, and owned by Mr. G. L. Whitehead, together with the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Riverina Fires Sydney
Bush fires are still raping in the Riverina, and up to the present have swept nearly 200,000 acres of grass and timber. Hundreds of volunteers are at work, but the westerly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sawmill Destroyed by Fire
The Norco Timber Coy's, big sawmill at Gungwahl was destroyed by fire last week, and £4000 worth of damage occasioned, besides throwing…
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