Bush Fires. Sydney
Further particulars regarding the bush fires show that they are the most expensive and disastrous in the history of the State. There have been a number of…
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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Fires & bushfires
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Further particulars regarding the bush fires show that they are the most expensive and disastrous in the history of the State. There have been a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In a big fire in the Blackull Ranges, Queensland, a farmer named Burgess and his wife both perished. Not a advert or chain of fencing remains…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World has been received in down that a big [?] is giving on the kica bill country. Some [?] ago this country was cleared by unchanged from Sydney and as with been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →VERY serious outbreaks of bush fires were reported from different parts of the State on Saturday, and reports continued to pour in of the damage done on Sunday and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THOUGH not beyond control at present, the bush fires which have broken out in the Dubbo district during the past few days are causing no little anxiety, and to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A relief fund is being organised in New Zealand in aid of sufferers by bush fires in this state. The Railway Commissioners have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whilst the whole country rings with the awful tale of disaster by fire in the Riverina and elsewhere. Wellington has not been entirely without its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News of terrible bush fires, accompanied by very heavy losses, both as regards crops and homesteads, was received in Sydney on Saturday and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Nyngan "Observer" given the following account of the fire which occurred in that town on the 20th December…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE ready response of the public to the appeal for subscriptions towards the relief of the sufferers by the recent bush fires is very gratifying. The appeal has been made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Carruthers says he has been informed that the damage done by the fires has been exaggerated. Many sufferers were insured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is held by many that the recent bush fires were the work of incendarism. Sticks of phosphorus were found at Muttama Station in different points enveloped in wet blankets to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The bush fires relief funds have reached nineteen hundred pounds. The money will probably be spent in the first instance in fodder…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Railway Commissioners have decided to bring in the same arrangements in regard to the carriage of hay, straw chaff, and fodder as were in existence during the drought, viz., to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If we in Dubbo comparatively escaped the fearful devastation that have left hundreds of square miles in Riverina a blackened waste, the district has nevertheless suffered in its turn…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DEPUTATIONS of members of Parliament, including Messrs. Waddell, Petty, Wood, Nielson, Hurley, Burgess, Scobie, Fattick, and R. T. Bell, waited upon Premier on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister for Lands to-day telegraphed to the Sub-Inspectors in the fire stricken districts that sufferers by bush fires may temporarily depasture stock from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting was held to-day, the Lord Mayor presiding, at which it was resolved to raise funds in aid of the burnt-out settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The house and contents belonging to Mr. M. H. Kelly, homestead selector. was completely destroyed by fire this afternoon. The origin of the fire is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DURING the last week the State has [?] aghast at the bavco wrought by bush fires in several portions of it, and in the tremendous damage done and loss…
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