Bush Fires
LISMORE, Wednesday.--Bush fires are raging, all directions. At Rous they are very bad and the residence of a farmer named Doyle has been burnt to the ground, causing a loss of…
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Bush Fires and Rabbits. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Cobar
Bush fires are raging within a few miles around Cobar, destroying everything before them. Two stationholders out west have decided to give up their holdings on account of the rabbits, and others are…
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At 8.51 p.m. on Tuesday, shortly after, the Millers Point fire broke out, a call was received at the head station of the M. F. Brigade, intimating that a tenement…
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The first person to discover the fire aud raise the alarm turns out to bo a seaman named Charles Jamieson, one of the crew of the steam collier Illaroo. lving alongside Gibbs, Bright…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Some burglars entered a tobacconist's shop in Prahran early this morning and were quietly making up the stock into packages when Weidlich, the…
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THE fire is now gradually burning itself out, but wili, nevertheless, require very careful attention for some days to come. The smoke is still exceedingly thick and…
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All day yesterday the fire which took place at Millers Point on Tuesday continued to burn. In the afternoon clouds of smoke arose; but in the evening, when a fresh breeze sprang up, flames…
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All through Tuesday night and Wednesday morning the Metropolitan Fire Station in Castlereagb-street was almost completely deserted, only one man being left in charge to…
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On no occasion other except that of the recent great fire in tho heart of the city have the firemen--permanent and volunteer--shown up in such numbers or displayed such courage as…
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The disastrous fire which broke out on Tuesday evening at Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s Wharf, Mill[?]'s Point, and resulted in the complete demolition of a valuable kerosene bond store, continued to burn…
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Thousands of people yesterday thronged from all parts of the city and suburbs to witness the great fire which broke out on Messrs, Gibbs Bright and Co.'s Wharf promises, Miller's Point,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Legislative Assembly. the New Rifle Range. the Fire at the Wharves. the Census Bill. the Sydney Hospital Buildings. Supply—resumption of Committee. The Speaker took the chair at 430 p.m. Mounted Infantry
Sir HENRY PARES, in answer to a Question by Mr. Garrard (for Mr. Cruickshank), said he was quite certain provision would be made for an additional mounted infantry force; but he could…
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A fire occurred at the confectionery works of Messrs. Rankin and Morrow, George-street, to-day. One storey was completely gutted…
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Sir, -- As a spectator of the late destructive fire at Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s Wharf, and whilst reading your most graphic account of that great calamity, it…
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Throughout yesterday the site of the great are at Miller's Point was crowded not only by sightseers but by workers who removed the tins of kerosene and stacks of timber which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fire at Dibbs's Wharf. Some of the following items appeared in our later editions of yesterday
Superintendent Bear, Mr. Webb, and the firemen under their control, were stall in active work yesterday on the smouldering ruins. A most remarkable feature in…
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A bush fire broke out near Mr. Frank Midson's Carlingford, on Saturday, last and before it was extinguished a great deal of damage was done. Some…
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There are bush fires in all directions. Warrumbungle has been alight for weeks. At Berida and Haddon Rigg holdings they are ploughing around the paddocks to check the inroad of…
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Bush fires are raging within a few miles around Cobar, destroying everything before them. Two stationholders out west have decided to Rive up their holdings on account of the rabbits, and others are…
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AT about 8.30 last Tuesday night an alarm was given at Gibbs and Bright's Wharf, Miller's Point, of a fire in a kerosene bond close at hand At 20 minutes to 9 the watchman had brought…
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