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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

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Self Immolation. Living Pillar of Fire

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 2

On the 23rd of July the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:—Miss Lucy Moore, aged twenty-six, the…

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An [?]nd the Camp Fire

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 9

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Bush Fires

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1905 · page 2

[?] bush fires occurred on the [?] Mountains, also in the [?] and Windsor districts, on Saturday last. Considerable…

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Fire at Meroo

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 2

Great excitement prevailed at Meron on Thursday night last. At Mr E. Sharman’s road camp the occupant of one of the tents was was greatly interested reading, nevertheless…

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Bush Fires

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 2

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Bush Fires

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 1

LAST year the heart was burnt out of some of our most fertile lands by bush fires. Crops valued at many thousands of pounds were into dust within a few hours. The lives of many were endangered. The…

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Private Hospital Destroyed by Fire

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1905 · page 2

A private hospital at Ponsonby (N.Z.) has been destroyed by fire. Seven of the inmates were saved, but one was burnt to death…

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Good Rains—bush Fires England Tinguished

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 4

Further rains have fallen in many parts of the country and as a result many of the bush tires have been extinguished. Steady rain is…

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Beware of Fire

The Bega Budget · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 2

THE appalling losses by fire reported almost daily throughout this State, and in a lesser degree in other Slates, calls for prompt and serious…

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Fire in New Zealand

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1905 · page 2

Bowious Tannery, near Christ Church, N. Z., covering hall an [?] has been totally destroyed by fire. Damage estimated at £40,000…

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Careless Use of Fire. Dangerous Outbreaks

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 7 December 1905 · page 2

The season of the year during which bush files are to be [?] has now began, and we have been requested by the Government to invite attention to…

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Preventing Bush Fires

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 6

THE season of the year during which bush fires are to bo feared has now begun, and we have been requested by the Government to invite attention to…

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Prevention of Bush Fires

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 4

THE season of the year during which bush fires are to be feared has now begun, and we have been requested by the Government to invite attention to the matter, and…

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Alleged Careless Use of Fire

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 4

Henry Vincin, of Shellharbour, was charged at the Albion Park police court with leaving unextinguished a fire he had lighted on Mr G. L…

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Hens in a Fire Pump

Southern Star · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 4

The following is a true story of a town which owns a small fire apparatus:—Outside the fire limits is a small community that, on petition, received an appropriation for the…

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Christmas Fires

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 5

When bright Christmas, fires are glowing And the fields are white with snow, Down beside the [?] Penobscot There comes back the long ago…

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Kindles Holy Fires

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 2

Mr [?] is that the Christmas is of all our festi[?] the one most [?] inter[?] with the [?] and family. It is the dry which kindles in…

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Fires

Southern Star · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 2

THE festival season has not passed over without disaster locally, two well-known district residents having the misfortune to be burnt out of…

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Fire on a Warship. Shell Explodes

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 7

A fire was on the afternoon of the 10th October discovered in the foremost 6-in. shell room of H.M.S. Argonaut at Chatham, and immediately after a 6-in…

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Careless Use of Fire. the Penalties of the Law

The Bega Budget · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 3

In connection with the careless use of fire during the summer months, concerning which there have been several complaints…

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