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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1907

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A Big Fire. Damage Estimated at £6000. ADELAIDE

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 November 1907 · page 2

Early this morning the Home of Mr. J. H. Aldridge, the well-known studmaster, at Richmond Park, was destroyed by fire. Mr. Aldridge lost all his stud…

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Lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade. Annual Meeting of Members

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 7 November 1907 · page 3

The second annual meeting of members of the Lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade was held at Lake Albert on Thursday evening last. Mr. W…

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Fire at Junee

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 2

Tho "Southern Cross" newspaper office, Junee, was totally destroyed by fire hid morning…

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Fire in a Printery

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 6

We offer our sincere sympathy to Mr. A. Bennett, the proprietor of “The Junee Southern Cross,” in the great loss sustained by the…

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Fire at Junee. Newspaper Office Gutted. Junee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 2

About 3 a.m. on Thursday morning a fire broke out on the premises owned by Mr. Alf, Bennett, which have for many years been used for the…

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Big Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 November 1907 · page 2

A fire has destroyed a groat part of Imanque, Chilli. Two thousand people are homeless…

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Big Fire in New Zealand AUCKLAND

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 November 1907 · page 2

A big woollen factory at Kapoi, New Zealand, has been totally destroyed by fire. only the walls having been left standing. The total damage is…

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New Zealand a Disastrous Fire. Woollen Mills Destroyed. Damage £80,000. WELLINGTON

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 November 1907 · page 2

A fire, which is the most disastrous in Canterbury for the past 14 years, destroyed a big woollen factory at Kaiapo together with a large quantity of…

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The South Gundagai Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 15 November 1907 · page 2

AT the local Court—house on Wednesday afternoon, an eaquiry was conducted by Mr. C.J. Fraser (Coroner), touching the origin of the fire at…

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A Recent Fire. South Gundagai Cottages

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 2

Mr. C. J. Fraser (Coroner) held an inquiry at the local Courthouse on Monday afternoon touching on the fire that destroyed two cottages at South Gundagai on…

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Fatal Fire. SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 November 1907 · page 3

A house occupied by Walter Spencet, near Guyra, was destroyed by fire. His 22 months old infant was burned to death…

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Fire at Parkes. Parents and Infant Injured. Parkes

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 November 1907 · page 3

Owing to the ignition of some curtains from lamps, the house of Arthur Lane was burnt last night, and Lane and his wife and infant child were…

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Building Destroyed by Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 2

Shortly before 9 o'clock last evening, a fire occurred in a small wooden cottage with a shingle roof, standing alone in an allotment containing some…

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Fire in Fitzmaurice Street Four-roomed House Destroyed

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 2

A fire occurred at 10 minutes to 9 o'clock last night is a four-roomed weatherboard house situated at the corner of Fitzmaurice and Travers…

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Cargo on Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 26 November 1907 · page 2

Advices received in Sydney to-day state that the Gorman steamer Schawaben, which left Sydney on September 29, has united at Cartagena, Spain,…

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A Fatal Fire. Several People Killed

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 November 1907 · page 2

Several people have been killed and many terribly injured in a fire which occurred in a six storey dry goods store at Cineinatti, U.S.A…

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A Suspicious Fire. Incendiarism Suspected. Goulburn

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 November 1907 · page 3

Considerable damage was done by a fire at an unoccupied house at Goulburn this morning. The fire was probably caused by an…

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A Big Fire

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 December 1907 · page 3

The business portion of Longreach (Queensland) has been swept by a disastrous fire. Twenty—two firms were burnt out along a space of 150…

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Big Fire in Melbourne. General Post Office Threatened. Damage £100,000

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 December 1907 · page 2

The biggest and most sensational fire that Melbourne has wen since the great fire of 1897 occurred on Saturday night in a large block of buildings, including…

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Great Fire in Melbourne. Good Save by the Brigade. Damage £150,000

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 3 December 1907 · page 3

The biggest and most sensational fire which Melbourne has seen since the great fire of 1897 occurred on Saturday night in a large block of buildings…

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