The Interior. (From various sources.) the Weather. — Destruction of Drays by Fire
Empire · Saturday 4 January 1851 · page 3
WARIALDA. — The continued drought has deranged matters considerably in this quarter, and if it continue there is no saying what may be the result. Anything like business is at a standstill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Lion Hunt. (From Cumming's" Fire Years of a Hunter's Life
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 January 1851 · page 1
"On the 29th we arrived at a small villiage of Bakalshari. These natives told me that clephants were abundant on the opposite side of the river. I accordingly resolved to halt here…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SCIENCE v. Superstition. (Ordeal by Fire)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 January 1851 · page 4
IN ancient times the influence of certain religions both in heathen and Christian countries was sought to be maintained by pretended miracles. Amongst others, trial of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ordeal by Fire. Spheroidal Condition of Bodies
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1851 · page 4
IN BOUTIGNY'S work on the spheroidal condition of bodies, we have several facts and arguments relating to the subject incidentally illustrated in the previous remarks on ordeal by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Fire at San Francisco. (From the Herald, December 16.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1851 · page 4
A FIRE broke out in the new iron building of Messrs. Cook, Brothers, and Company, on Sacramento-street, between Montgomery and Leidesdorff-street, on Saturday evening, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frightful Bush Fires at Port Phillip
Empire · Wednesday 19 February 1851 · page 3
THE news by yesterday's mail from Melbourne embraces several accounts of Bush Fires which have devastated, in a fearful manner, some of the most fertile districts of the Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Bush Fires. (Abridged from the Melbourne Argus.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1851 · page 2
IN our Saturday's issue we briefly alluded to the extensive and destructive bush fires that prevailed throughout the oountry, more particularly on the Thursday preceding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires
Empire · Thursday 20 February 1851 · page 3
Yesterday forenoon was a period of extra ordinary heat, and we are sorry to say, of calamity, also. The heat from 11 o'clock, a.m., until afternoon was most oppressive; a hot wind blowing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 22 February 1851 · page 14
Yesterday forenoon was a period of extraordinary heat, and we are sorry to say of calamity also. The heat from eleven o'clock a.m., until after noon was most oppressive; a hot wind blowing from the N.N.W. in a most furious manner. At this time the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1851 · page 3
We are again compelled to resume our narrative of the late disastrous casualties, and compile the following from Monday's Geelong Advertiser:—"A bullock driver has been burned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires. (From the Portland Guardian)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1851 · page 3
Yesterday forenoon was a period of extraordinary heat, and we are sorry to say of calamity also. The heat from eleven o'clock A.M., until after noon was most oppressive, a hot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Bush Fires at Port Phillip. "Black Thursday" in the Cape Otway Forest. (From the Geelong Advertiser.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1851 · page 3
TERRIFIC as was the visitation of the bush fires in the neighbourhood of Geelong, the phenomena displayed in the enormous forests of the Cape Otway coast, extending from near the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Devastating Bush Fires—Awful Loss of Life. (Extracts from the Melbourne Morning Herald of the 8th and 10th instants.)
Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 February 1851 · page 1
EXTENSIVE FIRES IN THE BUSH.—Accounts came pouring into town yesterday, from all quarters, of the dreadful ravages made by fires on the previous day. Messrs. Williamson and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires at Port Fairy
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1851 · page 3
We are glad to learn from a gentleman just arrived from Port Fairy, that the fires in that quarter, although at any other time they would have been deemed extensive, were not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Fires. (From the Geelong Advertiser of yesterday.) List of Sufferers by the Late Fire
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1851 · page 3
The following is a summary of the statements made by Mr. Willis at the public meeting on Tuesday last. Mr. Fisher has lost his stacks, stables, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Philadelphia Correspondence. Fires — Incendisries at work, &c
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1851 · page 3
Philadelphia, November 25, 1850.—A fire commenced about seven o'clock this morning, in a row of unfinished three-story dwellings, in Deacon-street, Spring Garden, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Poetry. Contributions to Australian Literature. (Being leaves from Charles Harpur's Wild Bee of Australia.) (No.2.) the Bush Fire
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 15 March 1851 · page 6
'"Tis nine o'clock:--to bed!" cried Egremont, Who, with his youthful household, (for Itis now Long since) inhabited a lonely home In the Australian Wilderness, that then…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gun Trade of Birmingham. in an article on fire-arms, in the Morning Chronicle, we find the following passages:—
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 March 1851 · page 3
Upon application to a master manufacturer for information on some points, I learned that, prior to the year 1836 there was a considerable trade in guns and pistols with America. Since…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Total Destruction of a Cotton-mill by Fire
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 April 1851 · page 9
A fire occurred on Thursday morning, which resulted in the total destruction of one of the largest cotton-mills in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, the property of Messrs. Cooper, Walker, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fires—their Causes and Their Effects. (From the South Australian Register, April 8.)
Empire · Monday 28 April 1851 · page 4
It was lately our painful duty to record the devastations occasioned by the bush tires in the Purl Phillip district; including not only the destruction of a large amount of…
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