Lightning Starts Bush Fire
Bush fires were burning very fiercely between Bungonia and Goulburn on Monday and Tuesday last, and about 3000 acres of glass country have…
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Fires & bushfires, 1926
59 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3
Bush Fires
The hills around the town were covered with smoke during the past few days as a result of the bush fires raging beyond the Murrumbidgee…
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Mr. W. Murrell. drover, of Braidwood, struck bad luck on Tuesday last. Bringing a mob of sheep from Goulburn, he camped them on the…
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Bush fires have swept the Cotter and Uriarra districts. Large areas of grass have been destroyed, but no stock has been lost…
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Yesterday the Canberra Fire Brigade received a call to Molonglo Settlement where a woodheap was on fire at the rear of the Mess, and after attending…
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Despairing messages from the south state that only rain can stop the huge grass and bush fires which are raging right from the Albury district to…
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If the hot weather was a long time in arriving it was certainly well warmed up on the way. The temperatures at the end of the week were…
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The bush fires to the east or the town are coming in closer to the settled areas. At the end of last week the five which started near Mr…
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Reports show that bush fires in the Monaio are as extensive as those in the Riverina district although the consequences are not quite so…
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No fire since the disastrous one in Monaro Street some years ago, which destroyed Hill's Store and adjacent buildings, attracted such an immense…
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It is quite a long time since Braidwood stewed in such continuous heat as happened during the last week. On Friday the maximum reading at…
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Refugees from the fire area at Noojee are still pouring into Warragul in motor cars and horse vehicles. It is estimated that thousands of…
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At the monthly meeting of the Committee of the Queanbeyan District Hospital last night a letter was received from the Secretary of the…
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Sydney saw another big fire on Tuesday night when the head office of McIlraiths Ltd., grocers, a brick building of five floors, in Pitt and…
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A meeting was held in the Fire Station, Queanbeyan, on Tuesday night, with Captain Barber in the chair. Amongst those present were…
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After the flood—the fire. Two thousand of the workers at Canberra and through the Federal Territory are wondering to-day if this will be…
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This is the inner story of why I, Richard Belmont, respected and honored by his countrymen, am now an outcast from the society that was…
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That a large number of the recent bush fires were due to criminal carelessness and incendiarism was a statement made at a conference of…
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When Billy caught sight of us he hesitated, flushing scarlet in embarrassment and annoyance; then, with an air of bravado, he led his…
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"I went to London, and there a man who saw me dancing in a cafe one night offered me a part in a show he was putting on…
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