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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1912

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The Fire Brigades. Inquiry by Mr M'gowen. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1912 · page 2

Mr. M'Gowen, replying to a deputation, definitely promised that he would personally inquire into the vexed question of Fire Brigade…

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Disastrous Fire. Five Persons Killed. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 2

The warehouse of the International Harvester Co., at Winnipeg, was destroyed by fire. Five persons lost their, lives through being ouried under…

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School of Arts Burnt. Blaze at Quirindi. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 2

The School of Arts at Quirindi was destroyed by fire this morning. The place contained billiard room, library, Tamoring Shire offices. Municipal…

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Fire in Sydney. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 2

A fire was discovered this morning at the warehouse of the International Harvester Co., of America, at Glebe. The basement and its contents were…

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Victorian Fire Fighters Before the Public

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 5

The annual demonstration of the country fire brigades of Victoria was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Eastern Oval, Ballarat, where the…

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An Hotel Fire Five Commercial Travellers Perish. Other Occupants Narrowly Escape. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 14 March 1912 · page 5

At Plaster nock, New Brunswick, Middlesex, the Fraser Hotel was to tally destroyed by fire. Five commercial travellers perished, and ten…

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Bungaree Bill on a White Australia "At the Camp Fire."

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 8

"The man who blathers about a "White Australia,'" said Bungaree, "is either a coodium or an 'ippercrit, and the editor of the 'Bulletin' wants is…

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Fire at Woollen Mills. Extensive Damage Done. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1912 · page 2

Hurst's woollen mills at Geelong were destroyed by fire. The premises and contents were valued at £50,000, and about 300 men will be…

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Fire at Marrar

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 2

The barber's shop and billiard saloon owned by Mr. A. Winter, at Marrar, and occupied, by Mr. Crawford, was destroyed by fire early…

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Fire at Junee Junee, Monday Midnight

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 5

shortly after the evening celebration in connection with the Railway Picnic commenced last night a fire broke out in a four roomed cottage occupied by…

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Fire at Junee. Residence Burnt to the Ground. Junee, Monday Night

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 2

As the company were taking their seats at the railway banquet at Junee to-night a fire alarm was founded by the engines in the railway yards,…

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Playing with Fire

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 7

Fire tricks were practised in very ancient times. The first known fire breather was a Syrian slave named Eunus, a leader in the servile war in…

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The Fire Escape Problem. an Ingenious and Safe Contrivance

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 3

The latest in fire fighting appliances is Mr. E. H. Griffin s "Royal Always Ready Fire Escape." It is not an escape of the kind where you…

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Fires Charged Extra

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 7

Travellers on the Continent will remember the high price of wood and the expensive luxury of a constant fire. A man who was spending some weeks in a German…

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Fire in Gippsland. MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

A fire at Drouin to-day destroyed £6000 worth of property…

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Fire at Timber Mill. AUCKLAND

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 March 1912 · page 2

Parker and Lamb's timber mill at Auckland, was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £10,000…

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Sensational Fire. Woman and Three Children Killed. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2

In a fire at some tenement buildings at Dartmouth, England, a woman and her three children were burnt to death. She threw a fourth child out…

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Storms and Fires. London

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 4

A violent cyclone has occurred at Buenos Ayres. Many persons were killed. A great fire occurred at…

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Flood and Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 April 1912 · page 2

At the same time that many mailmen in Queensland and the Northern Territory were fighting flood waters, the Drouin (Vic.) mailman had a thrilling…

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Lady Gwendoline's Secret. (Ale Rights Reserved.) Chapter Xxxii. the Fire

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1912 · page 4

As the terrible denunciation fell from Lord Eversleigh's lips, Bertrand Green, or as he is better known to our readers, Stanley Beaumont, saw…

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