Blaze Near Tarcutta
Yesterday afternoon a fire restarted near Tarcutta, on the Sydney road from Tarcutta to Holbrook. This fire was burning last week and was…
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Woomargama Between Two Fires Woomargama
Un[?] 1 o’clock the men on the Woomargama. The Willows fire were mainly engaged in making the fire-line secure against any burning back…
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The fires in the Tumut district have been raging even more fiercely during the past few days, the temperature consequently…
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A fire occurred at Mr. and Mrs. P. Leach's residence, "Napier," Lockhart, on Saturday evening. Miss Leach had lighted the stove fire and went out…
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A disastrous fire started at Yenda at 3.35 this (Tuesday) morning. Four shops occupied by Mrs. Oliver, Constantines (refreshment room)…
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A very dis[?] fire. Involving the loss of many thousands of pounds broke out [?] the Commonwealth Board Mills, 615 Victoria street,…
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To day the fury of the Upper Tumut Valley fires has been abated by a few light showers which have damped the grass and will steady the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires Still Burn Fresh Outbreaks Reported Yesterday Considerable Property and House Burnt Reports Incomplete Owing to Phone Dislocation, Rain Steadies Hill Fires
Yesterday the big fires in the mountains between Kiandra and Toom[?] were steadied for a day by [?]ght rain…
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Nicholas Flynn, aged 80. was shockingly burnt when his home caught [?]ire at Sofa[?], in the Bathurst district But for the fact that the…
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A fire occurred at the railway yards yesterday and resulted in the destruction of a quantity of furniture, [?]es, and general goods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outbreaks at Adelong Car Loads of Fire-fighters
Seven or eight car loads of men left Adelong yesterday to fight the fire on Mr. H. Hayes's property, about three miles from town, going towards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIRE Eight Business Places Welligton (N.z.)
Eight business premises were destroyed by fire at Oairoa this morning. There being no water supply available, the spectators were unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Outbreaks' at Adelong Car Loads of Fire-fighters
Seven or eight car loads of men left Adelong yesterday to fight a fire on Mr. H. Hayes's property, about three miles from the town, going towards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Fight Fire. Sound Replaces Water. A Remarkable Invention
Professor Charles Kellogg. a Californian scientist, gave a demonstration of extingushing a gas flame 2ft. high by sound—the tunal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gerogery Fire Homestead Destroyed Two Thousand Sheep Missing Holbrook
To-day’s fresh fire, believed to have been started by sparks from a railway engine started from Gerogery and travelled 16 miles…
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Shortly after 8o'clock on Saturday night a fire broke out in the Cameron Shoe Company's factory on North Terrace. The establishment, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ether Explodes Fire in Hospital Ward. Unconscious Patient Killed. London
During an operation at the Mansfield Hospital, a nurse's skint overturned a bottle of ether, and the fumes spread to a fire 14 feet distant. An explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forest Fire Murruguldrie Plantation in Flames Nearly 600 Acres Destroyed Timber Valued at Many Thousands
The most disastrous fire that has occurred this summer broke out on the Kyeamba leasehold portion of Murrugu[?]drie State Pine…
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The most disastrous fire that has occurred this summer broke out on the Kyeamba leasehold portion of Murruguldrie State Pine Forest yesterday, and in a few hours the flames had laid waste several hundreds…
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