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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Fires & bushfires
146 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 3 of 8
ON Friday evening, the annual meeting of the Dubbo Volunteer Fire Brigade, to elect officers for the ensuing year, was held at the Fire Station, the outgoing captain (Mr. J. Ritter)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires thirty feet high and half a mile wide are raging at Haunted Hill, (Vic.), and are expected to do heavy damage in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. G. W. Tall, informs us that the local agent for the Scottish Union and National Insurance Coy, Mr. J. P. Martin, has advised him that he is in receipt of a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By a fire at Munyip (Vic.) yesterday, three children named Wilson, 4, 6, and 15 years respectively, were burnt to death. It is surmised that the children were playing with matches at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Just when the majority of Bourke people were enjoying their tea, about a quarter past six o'clock on Monday evening last, the discordant and ominous ring of the fire-bell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SHORTLY after 6 o'clock on Monday evening last the Council Chambers in Bourke (says the "Banner,") were seen to be on fire and the alarm was given. The fire brigade soon arrived, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following detailed particulars of the Boyertown horror are furnished by the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail" as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. J. C. Mechan, M.L.A., has forward us the following gratifiying information:—"The sum of £120 has been allotted, as a special grant, to the Bourke Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to the "Daily Mail" correspondent at St. Petersburg on the 4th of January English passengers had a narrow escape in a fire which destroyed the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MESSRS. LARANCE AND SONS butcher's establishment in Los-angel, Wellington, in the heart of the town, was burnt out on Monday evening. The premises are owned by Mr. Pridham. By…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious fire took place in Nanima Crescent on Monday night, resulting in the premises occupied by Messrs. Laranoe & Son, butchers, being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The premises of Messrs. Larance, butchers, of Lee-street, Wellington, were burned down on Monday night. The fire started at 10 p.m., and there was also an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday night last shortly after halfpast ten o'clock, the fire-bell, which has been in evidence so frequently lately, once more rang out. In a very four minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Board of management of the Cobar Fire Brigade was held at the Fire Station on Friday evening of last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A great fire in Boston (U.S.A.) has rendered 10,000 people homeless. Five people have been killed. The fire commenced in a ragg-picker's shop…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual dinner of the Dubbo Fire Brigade took place at the Fire Station on Tuesday evening last, the 14th inst., Captain Ritter in the chair. There was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE annual reunion of members of the Dubbo Fire Brigade was held in the station on Tuesday evening, Captain Ritter in the chair. The [?] was also that of a send- off to Fireman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible railway collision occurred at Braybrook Junction, near Melbourne. The Bendigo express crashed into a stationary Ballarat train. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most appalling railway accidents in the history of Australia ocourred at Braybrook, near Melbourne (Victoria), last night, whan two heavily-laden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →According to Profossor Cleveland Abo, the great forest fires in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan covered an area of five thousand square miles, and the hot air and smoke…
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