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Fires & bushfires, 1906

394 stories in Riverina's papers · page 6 of 20

Dealing with Fire Fiends

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1906 · page 2

A family named Crampton, consisting of the father, mother and two daughters, were committed for trial at Forbes to-day on a charge of causing…

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Bush Fires

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

Tuesday was a day that will long live in the memory of Gundagai folk. The thermometer ran up to 110, and at 8 o'clock at night it had only…

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Bush Fires. Loss of Life--Trains on Fire!

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 3

The bush fires in Victoria have caused widespread rain. Hundreds of settlers are homeless, their homesteads having been totally destroyed…

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Bush Fire Workers

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

The word "co-operation" is often abused, but in the case of the fire last week at Gilgal we must admit no exception to such an advisable conception can be taken. Sufficient…

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Bush Fires Relief Fund. SYDNEY

The Temora Star · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 5

A relief fund will probably be initiated in Victoria to assist the sufferers from bush fires…

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lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

About thirty members of the above brigade met at the Lake Albert Hall on Wednesday night. The principal business for which the meeting was…

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District News. Lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

A well attended meeting of the above brigade was held on Wednesday night at Lake Albert. Mr. T. Halloran, occupied the chair…

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Disastrous Bush Fires. a Race for Life. Six Children Killed. Condobolin

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

On Friday last a fire from Mowaola burned Mr. Dram[?] Mount Nobby property, and on Mr. Anderson's it destroyed twenty acres of standing…

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Bush Fire at Sandy Creek. Work of an Incendiary

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

Regarding a grass fire which occurred on Sandy Creek run on Tuesday last, the manager (Mr. W. Rolls) gives the following circumstantial account…

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Riverina Fires. Deniliquin

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

A fire which devastated a large area of country occurred yesterday on Old Cornella station, and burnt a large portion of Moroco station the [?]…

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Alleged Careless Use of Fire Abortive Proceedings

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 3

Frank Clarke, charged with the careless use of fire, which, it is alleged, originated the great bush fire now raging, was brought before the Bench…

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Fires in Victoria. Family of Six Suffocated. Settlers Rendered Homeless. Widespread Distress. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

Nows concerning bush fires continues to coma in. A telegram from Foster stales that six children of Mr. Lonsdale, Mount Best, had been suffocated…

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More Bush Fires. an Outbreak at Tarrabandra. More "Squatter's Pills."

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

At noon on Saturday a fire broke out below Mr. R. Pottre's house, Tarrabandra, and made scross Messrs. J. and F. McEvey's Tarrabandra flats,…

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Wallendbeen Bush Fire Brigade

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 4

Present—Messrs. Palmer, Bolger, Morrow, Armstrong, Sackett Apologies were received from Messrs. Forsyth and Sawyer…

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Bush Fires. Outbreaks at Jones' Creek. Diabolical Outrages

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

A discovery on Sunday night and another on Monday morning shows we have in our midst a dastardly scoundrel—one who would disgrace…

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The Jugiong Fires

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

Particulars of the Jugiong to Bookham fire show that the outbreak started in Mr. J. Quinn's property, and spread to Messrs H. Osborne's…

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A Big Fire

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 7

The premises of Crooks and Brooks, Port Adelaide, were damaged by fire yesterday. The whole of the stock, valued at some thousands of pounds…

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Destroyed By Fire. SYDNEY, Tuesday

The Temora Star · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

The premises of Messrs. Crooks and Brooker, of Port Adelaide, were much damaged by fire. Some thousands of pounds worth of stock were cons[?]med…

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Bush Fire. Fighting

The Worker · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 2

DEAR WORKER,—We have just had experience of the most devastating bush fires that have broken out in the Condobolin district this season. The whole of the country…

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Around the Camp Fire

The Worker · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 9

Mrs. Jennie Gunn, in her Australian book "The Little Mack Princess," tells of an aboriginal who, though he had been converted to the Christian faith, was one…

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