Fire Near Coolamon
A resident of Ashbridge set fire to some stubble on Friday, and a tree caught alight. During the night a strong wind arose and blew the sparks…
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Testing the Fire Engine
A crowd of curious people quickly gathered on the Beckwith-street bridge [?] night when they [?]aw a huge jet of water being sent into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Damp in Mine Five Miners Injured Eighteen Others Trapped Charleroi (Belgium)
Owing to fire damp at a level of 3000 feet in a coal mine at Bois Longpre, five miners were seriously injured, two of them critically[?]…
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The landholders of this district have got through the fire-danger season very well, so far, and, if further rains come, should soon be "out of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires New Zealand Outbreaks Auckland (N.z.)
Settlers on the shore of Lake Roto Ma are alarmed by outbreaks of serious bush fires which are menacing valuable property. Numbers of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires New Zealand Outbreaks State Forest Threatened Auckland (N.z.)
Settlers on the shore of Lake Roto Ma are alarmed by outbreaks of serious bush fires which are menacing valuable property. Numbers of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coonamble Fires Now Under Control Coonamble
Extensive bush fires which menaced several homesteads for three days were extinguished last night. Fire fighters had just got the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General the Recent Town Fire
Investigations showed that the cause of the fire at the residence of Mrs. Conkey, sen., Thompson street, in which half the woodwork of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mendooran Homestead Destroyed by Fire Sensational Developments Sydney
It is stated that sensational developments have arisen from the visit of defectives to Mendooran, where a valuable homestead and wool and hay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Ulimaroa Coal Bunkers Alight Crew Quells Outbreak Sydney
When 100 miles off the coast of New South Wales at 11 o'clock last night a fire was discovered in the coal bonkers of the Union Co's liner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires in N.Z. Heavy Damage Gale Fans Flames Wellington (N.z.)
Bush fires continue to rage in the King country. Already great damage is reported. Many families at Te Awamutu are homeless and numerous…
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At the Albury Police Court Kevin Thomas Rae a laborer, employed by the Public Works Department, was charged with having left a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Smoke Signals From the Never-never the Green Goddess Pierced by Rifle Fire in Central Australia Author Gets a Shock
No mere affair of wooden spears or boomerangs this. Super-speed, metaleased bullets from the very last word in Winchesters. That not a hair of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Brigades Reply From the Minister
Mr. F. Dawn, on behalf of the Muttama B.F.B., wrote to the Minister for Local Government re the powers of the bush fire brigades—whether…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires in New Zealand Serious Position Auckland (N.z.)
The bush fires in New Zealand show no signs of abatement. Many people have been cut off by the flames, but fortunately there has been no loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Control "Proposed Board Unwieldy" Fire Commissioner's Criticism Sydney
Doubt as to the usefulness of the proposed Bushfire Control Board was expressed yesterday at a meeting of the Central Bush Fires Committee, held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rain and Fires
The rain since our last issue wee a very welcome visitation. One reason amongst many is that it will allay the dread, obsessing people in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whirlwinds and Northwesters Did Fettlers Burn Off on Unsuitable Day Interesting Evidence at Kooba, Fire Inquiry
On Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Leeton Courthouse, the coroner, Mr. W. C. Barker, J.P., conducted an Important Inquiry as to when, how, where,, and by what means a fire broke out on Kooba and Gum Creek Station, near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Control Proposed Board Unweildy Ald. Collins' Criticism
Doubt as to the usefulness of the proposed Bushfire control Board was expressed by Alderman E. E. Collins Mayor of Wagga, country…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Trapped In Fire Two Horses Burnt to Death
Two horses out of a team of six attached to a plough were trapped and burnt to death by a grass fire at Bena, West Wyalong. The other…
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