Between Two Fires—both Wet
"Really, I don't know what to do with my husband," said Mrs. Robinson. "The doctor tells me that if I give him anything to drink but pure…
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992 stories in Riverina's papers · page 11 of 50
Brigade Quells Fire
A fire which was confined to a number of cases containing old papers at the rear of Partridge and Jones, Fitzmaurice-street, early on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Many Fire Outbreaks Heavy Damage Near Moss Vale Sydney
A dense pan of smote hung over almost the whole of the State to-day, when heat-wave conditions again caused a number of fire outbreaks. Fires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leeton Fire Engine Arrives Biggest Outside Metropolitan Area Leeton
A new fine engine, said to be the largest outside the metropolitan area or Sydney, arrived in Leeton yesterday in charge of inspector Eadie. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Safety Matches and Bush Fires
Mr. T. Hingerty, an old resident of Temora, called at the "Independent" office to express the opinion that safety matches were the cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Near Young
Only good equipment and a big brigade of fighters stopped a bush fire at Tipperary Gully, which quickly spread to old "Cherry Vale," net far from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire at Wirrimah
A bush fire, which commenced near the new quarry at Wirrimah on Wednesday afternoon, burnt about 400 acres before it was extinguished by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest (Second Edition) Yass Bush Fires Danger Greatly Lessened Sydney
Although miles of grass fires were still burning on the outskirts of Yass, the danger had considerably lessened late last night, stated a report from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires Further Destruction in Yass District Binalong and Bowning Threatened 30,000 Acres Swept YASS
Since Sunday four huge bush fires in the Yass district laid waste homes, hundreds of sheep, horses, and cattle, and thousands of acres of grassland,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blaze Near Young 100 Civilians Join Fighters
Reports of damage caused by a fire just out of Young, on the Cowra road, last Thursday, place the losses at 1000 acres of grass a number of sheep, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tumbarumba District Fire Near Carabost
More than 250 members of bush fire brigades in the Tumbarumba Shire were engaged in fighting a fire last night which was reported to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Sugar Refinery Sydney
A fire broke out early this morning in an elevator at the Colonial Sugar Refineries Works, Pyrmont. Firemen were speedily on the scene, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Old Mill Destroyed Fire in Bush at Tumbarumba
What, in other circumstances, might have developed into a disastrous lire in the bush close to Tumbarumba town, was averted on Monday of last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →50 Posts Burnt in Grass Fire Police Enquire
APPROXIMATELY 50 posts of a fence running parallel to the Leeton-Yanco road were burnt in a grass-fire on Sunday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Largest at N.s.w. Country Volunteer Station Leeton's Powerful Fire-fighting Appliance
WITH the arrival in Leeton on Friday of a 60-horse power Dennis motor fire-engine, which weighs six tons loaded, this fire district is now equipped with an appliance larger and more powerful than that in any other country district in N.S.W., with the exception of Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Safety Matches and Bushfires
Mr. T. Hingerly, an old resident of Temora, expresses the opinion that safety matches were the cause of numerous bush fires, particularly on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Bushfires Raging Destruction in Yass District Binalong, Bowning and Barialda Threatened by Flames More than 30,000 Acres Already Swept YASS
Four huge bushfires raging in the Yass district have laid waste to many homes. Hundreds of sheep, horses and cattle, and thousands of acres of grassland have been destroyed, while three towns, Binalong, Bowning and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Farmers Defended SYDNEY
Representatives of the graziers and farmers' organisations and fire officials today repudiated the charge that carelessness of farmers was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reckless Motorists in Bush Fire Areas Gross Neglect Revealed Sydney
"Only amazingly good fortune prevented the week-end road toll being increased tenfold by the reckless behavior of some motorists in bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brilliant Bush Fire Save Hundreds of Fighters Rush to Carabost District Threat to Plantation Averted Fine Work by Men From Mannus Camp
An all-day fight yesterday by hundreds of men in the Carabost area, about 35 miles from Wagga, culminated in the turning of the bush fire threatening the Murraguldrie No. 1 pine plantation back into scrub country…
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