Bush Fires
Reports from various parts of the country districts state that bush fires are raging. In the Gundagai district twenty square miles are in a blaze. The…
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Fires & bushfires, 1905
125 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 7
Bush Fires
For the last few days, the town has been enveloped with: dense smoke, showing the extent and severity of bush fires in other districts. On Friday last the…
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During the past month bush fires, to a greater or less extent, have been burning throughout the district, but up to last Friday none of the settlers suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unprecedented Bush Fires Miles Upon Miles of Country Devastated Valuable Properties and Live Stock Destroyed Herculean Efforts at Fire Fighting
NEVER since the district of Queanbeyan became settled, have such widespread destructive or alarming bush fires been prevalent as those…
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On Friday night last, the grandstand buildings, comprising Luncheon room, bar, jockeys’ and ladies’ stands on the Cootamundra racecourse were burned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Distructive Fire. Travels at the Rate of Ten Miles an Hour. Horses, Sheep, and Dogs Perish in the Flames. Burns Habitations, Hay and Wheat Stacks
WORD reached Queanbeyan at about 7 o'clock on Sunday evening that all the country lying between Glenwood and the Murrumbidgee was one gigantic conflagration, and the services of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Bush Fires in the Country Enormous Damage
During the past week the high temperatures and strong westerly winds have given bush fires in this district a new lease of power, and considerable damage has been done. The mountains to the cast of…
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BY latest reports we learn that the damage wrought by the bush fires of last Saturday, Sunday and Monday, has been of the most serious nature. Vast areas of pastoral and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weetangara. the Recent Bush Fires
THE intense heat of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday was exceeded by that of Saturday, when the mercury registered 110 degrees, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Recent Bush Fires. Some of the Losses. a Brave Girl. Exciting Incidents. Horrible Sufferings of Animals. Government Assistance
FRAGMENTARY details of the losses caused by the recent devastating bush fires are only yet obtainable, but they are quite sufficient to show that the…
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The Braidwood district must be considered one of the most fortunate in the State as far as the damage done by bush fires is concerned. Only in a comparatively few instances has any damage worth…
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The following reports on the recent bush fires were received at the Inspector General’s office on Saturday from police officers in charge of the various…
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Over thirty reports have been received from police in various districts showing little need for assistance by settlers who suffered by bush fires…
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During the prevalence of the recent bush fires in the southern district, instances were recorded where the best intentions of some of the settlers were woefully thwarted by…
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IN order to raise a fund for the immediate relief of necessitous cases in our midst--caused through losses by recent bush fires--it has been decided…
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ACCURATE details of the recent bush f[?]re which devastated so much valuable properly in the Gininderra district are slowly coming to hand. So exaggerated were the tales…
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A CORRESPONDENT from Gundaroo writes:--On the 2nd instant "Forest Glen," the homestead of the Elliott family at Nelanglo, near here, was…
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Reports from the police and other sources should soon enable a rough estimate to be made of the extent of the damage caused by the recent widespread fires. So far it…
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The S. M. Herald, in a leading article in its Saturday's issue under the above heading, says:—"There is nothing unreasonable in the suggestion made by several correspondents that the…
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It has been decided to reduce railway rates not only tor carriage of stock and fencing materials , but on all building materials and fencing posts,…
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