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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
170 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 9
SYDNEY, Sunday.-- Record bushfires are sweeping Tasmania and history- making floods are swamping Queensland and flood- battered N. S. W. today. Five feet high sandbag levees…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MADRID, Monday (AAP).-- Four persons were killed and 18 injured in a fire on the Gijon -Madrid Express at Pajares yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LAKE SUCCESS, Monday (AAP).-- Sources close to the Soviet Union revealed yesterday that the Chinese People's Republic might be prepared to settle the Korean conflict with a cease fire line established on the 38th Parallel, in addition to other terms, says Reuter's correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CASINO, Tuesday. -- An 80-year-old Casino woman, Mrs. E. Hayden,, extinguished a blazing mattress which threatened to set fire to her home. Mrs. Hayden lives alone in Bent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The condition of Casino octogenarian, Mrs. E. Hayden, was last night reported to be satisfactory. Mrs. Hayden was admitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).--Trapped by flames, a 15 year old girl calmly knotted blankets and lowered her younger brother and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A fire extensively damaged an estimated 3000 bales of cotton, worth about £100,000, at the Sydney Showground…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.-- Police believe the cause of the fire which yesterday gutted a lacquer factory in St. Peters was spontaneous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Representatives of Middle Eastern and Asiatic nations last night decided to sponsor a draft resolution for an immediate cease fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.--The whole of N.S.W., with the exception of the coastal areas from Nambucca Shire to the Queensland Border,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Gales, bush fires, and heat waves) swept N.S.W. today, and in Sydney abnormally high Aides flooded the lower reaches of the Botanical Gardens…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday (AAP).--Britain and the United States yesterday told the United Nations Political Committee that they supported the proposal of the 13 Asian and Middle East countries for a cease…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday.-- Landholders in the far west of N.S.W. are making desperate preparations to fight bush fires, which have penetrated the border from South Australia at several points…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although temperatures approached the century mark, two fires which broke out in Lismore yesterday afternoon were not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CASINO, Sunday. -- Mrs. Ellen Hayden, 80-year-old Casino woman, who was admitted to the Memorial Hospital 10 days ago, suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WOLLONGONG, Sunday. -- A woman and two young children had a narrow escape from suffocation when a fire started in their bed in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Troops and volunteers fought grass fires throughout the State, as tempera- tares rose above the century and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). -- A nun roused 50 sleeping children and led them to safety along smoke filled corridors, when a fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday (AAP). -- The United Nations cease fire committee on Korea has offered to meet the Chinese Communist authorities in New York or "elsewhere". Lester Pearson, Canadian member of the three-man group,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The awe inspiring scene as a well blazed into flames at Cortemaggiore, in Val Padana, the centre of the Italian mineral oil zone, lighting up the whole of the countryside. It is thought that the fire was caused by sparks from stones…
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