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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1910

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Protecting the Orchard Danger of Late Frosts. Smudge Fire System

The Western Herald · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 6

"Several years ago" (writes an American orchardist) "after the fruit crop was damaged by a late spring frost, I thought there certainly ought to be…

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A Lake on Fire

The Cobar Herald · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 7

The Lake of Waterloo is a phosphorescent sheet of valor 1000 feet long; near Bissau, in the Brahamas. At night it is like a sheet of living fire if the wind is…

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A Big Bush Fire

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 5

A bush fire near Deniliqu[?] covered a vast are[?] of country four miles long by four to six wide…

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Inter-state. Sydney, November 18. First Bush Fire

The Western Herald · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 4

A bush fire broke out near Deniliquin, and burnt an area of country, four miles long by four to six miles wide…

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A Lake on Fire

The Western Herald · Saturday 19 November 1910 · page 7

The Lake of Waterloo is a phosphorescent sheet of water 1000 feet long, near Nassau, in the Brahamas. At night it is like a sheet of living fire if the wind is…

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Fire

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 22 November 1910 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon a fire broke out in the premises in Dalton Park occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown. It happened about 4…

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Outbreak of Fire

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 23 November 1910 · page 3

A fire broke out in the premises of Middleton sad Company, furniture warshousemen, George-street West. The outbreak was soon quelled. The damage was confined to a quantity of…

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Another Fire

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 3

Fires seldom come singly in Cobar, and seldom on opposite corners. On Thursday evening the firebell rang about 8. o'clock, and…

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Latest Telegrams. International. London, November 28. Terrible Fire at New York

The Western Herald · Wednesday 30 November 1910 · page 2

A terrible fire occurred in a box factory at Newark, New York. 24 girls were killed, many leaping into the street from the third and fourth storey…

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Disc Ploughs and Fires

The Wellington Times · Thursday 1 December 1910 · page 3

It is known that bush fires are caused in various ways. Pieces of broken bottle are believed to have started many a costly conflagration, and now the disc…

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Mine on Fire

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 December 1910 · page 6

A serious explosion of gas occurred in the Killingworth colliery, West Wallsend, yesterday morning, and the mins is now on fire. No one was killed or…

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Disastrous Fire at Albury

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 14 December 1910 · page 3

A fire broke out in a furniture warehouse at Albury last night. The building was gutted, and the damage is estimated at £12,000. While the fire was in progress the wall of the building…

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Fire in a Bank

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 2

A FIRE broke out in the tittle of the Australian Bank of Commerce promises, at the corner of George and King streets, Sydney, on Friday night. As a result considerable damage was…

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Huge Bush Fire Racing

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 5

A huge hush fire is raging in the Deniliquin district. Flames swept through several stations, burning a large area. At a rough estimate the country devastated is nearly 30…

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A Disastrous Fire

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 5

A fire destroyed a large block ol buildings in Dunedin (N.Z.) Insurances total £17,000, but the losses greatly exceed that amount…

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The Fire Brigade Board. Serious Allegations

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 5

In the Assembly on Wednesday night the Chief Secretary stated in answer to Mr. Morrish that he had ordered a Judicial inquiry into certain…

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Bush Fires and Locomotives

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 3

Recently Mrs. A. W. Watson, of Gerogery East estate, sued the Railway Commissioners for damages caused to her property in December last through bush fires,…

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Outbreak of Fire

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 4

A fire was discovered this morning in the ticket office of the Banksia railway station. The flames were soon extinguished, and very little damage was done…

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