Bush Fires in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)
Fierce bush fires are sweeping through the Hawkes Bay district and settlers have gone through many arduous Hours saving properties…
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954 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 48
Fires At Ungarie
Three buildings, containing a billiard-room, butcher's shop, and ice works, and a mercery store, were destroyed by fire at Tullibig[?]l, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appalling Bush Fire Tragedy 200 Houses in Warrandyte Valley Gone Township of Woods Point Wiped Out Famous St. Bernard Hospice on Featherton Destroyed MELBOURNE
The death-roll in the bush fires has now reached the appalling total of 45. The town of Woods Point was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires in Adelaide Hills Adelaide
The heat spell continued in Adelaide to-day when the thermometer reached 114 in the shade Scorching winds revived the bushfires in the…
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The Chief Secretary (Mr. Gollan) announced on Thursday that the Government will forbid the sale, distribution or use of wax matches…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at "Ravensworth"
Believed to have been caused by lightning during a dry thunderstorm a bush fire broke out on Mr E. J Merriman's property, "Ravensworth,"…
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Little is ever said of the huge annual savings made by fire fighting brigades, owing to the time saved in getting to conflagrations, due to fast…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Upper Murray Fires River Crossed at Walwa
An appeal came to Wagga this afternoon for volunteers to fight the bush fires in Tumbarumba district. On the phone late this afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Prevents Big Fire at Yenda
Heavy rain on Sunday night last prevented the spread of a fire to several shops in Main Street, Yenda. The fire started in James Langtry's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tumbarumba Area Fires Raging in District Khanooban Threatened Prisoners' Great Efforts
Serious bush fires are raging in the Tumbarumba district, where scores of men have been fighting fierce mountain fires for days. While the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wollongong Fire Five Lives Lost Sydney
According to a report received at Police headquarters five persons were burnt to death at Wollongong in a terrific fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Starlings Stand Fumigating, But Not Fire Brigade Hose [?] Dislodged by Firemen
Each summer the gathering of [?]sands of starlings in a few fav[?]ed plane trees near the corner [?]rail and Gurwood Streets, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bushfire Havoc Continues New Outbreaks Victorian Towns Ringed by Fumes Healesville Area Ablaze Ferntree Gully Threatened MELBOURNE
A hot northerly wind has fanned the dying bush fires into flame and this afternoon the situation was again serious in several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gales and Bush Fires In New Zealand. SYDNEY
A messages from Auckland states that gales are sweeping the Hawkes Bay district, and bush fires are raging in many parts. At times the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A.J.C. Starter Mr. Gaxieu Held Up by Bush Fires Sydney
Mr. Bert Page, deputy caretaker at Randwick racecourse, acted as starter at the Warwick Farm meeting this aftenoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Bush Fires Many People Burned to Death Fate of More Than So Unknown Outbreaks Link Up On 100 Miles Front
THE Victorian bush fires have assumed the proportions of national calamity. Twenty-nine more people were burned to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Bush Fires Many People Burned to Death Fate of More Than 50 UNKNOWN Outbreaks Link Up on 100 Miles Front MELBOURNE
The Victorian bush fires have assumed the proportions of a national calamity. Twenty-nine more people were burned to death to-day, bringing the total death roll to 62, while the fate of at least 50 more in the heart of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heat and Fire
The summer of 19[?] will go down in Australian history as one of the most tragic and trying ever experienced. The whole continent has been under an [?]deal of heat and fire. Temperaturses have soared almost to the limits of human endurance and new records have been set in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canberra Menaced Visiting Professors' Fight Forest Fires Canberra
With a raging fire on a 45-mile front sweeping towards the capital, and reaching to within two or three miles of it in one sector, residents and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mail Car Destroyed By Fire Near Tumut
The Tumut-Tomorroma mail [?] caught fire on Saturday, 7½ miles Hill. All the mails and goods were from Tumut when ascenting Wyangl[?]…
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