Extensive Bush Fires
Information has been received of a very heavy loss sustained by Messrs. Beveridge Brothers, of Pine Grove Farm, Murray Hut, near Jerilderie, the bush fire which swept over that part of the…
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Information has been received of a very heavy loss sustained by Messrs. Beveridge Brothers, of Pine Grove Farm, Murray Hut, near Jerilderie, the bush fire which swept over that part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ALBURY, Friday.—A man who has just arrived from Piney Range states that he passed along 10 miles of blazing country. Outside the fringe of the fire he saw hundreds of snakes and other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ever since last Monday week reports have been constantly arriving from the thinly-populated parts of the district of bush fires, which were continually breaking out, and it was anticipated that the forest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Thursday. -- The bush fires reported from nearly every part of the Murray and Riverina districts are still burning, and hundreds of thousands of acres of grass and…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FIRE occurred shortly before 1 o'clock this morning in a draper's shop at 197 Oxford-street, occupied by Mr. G. Blughden. The origin of the fire is unknown. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE total number of alarms received for fires or supposed fires during the year was 326, as against 298 last year. Of these 52 wore false alarms, 13 proved to be only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PROLOGUE: The South Durhan foxhounds were after a fine dog fox and were in full cry. Suddenly one of the huntsmen gives up the chase and a few minutes afterwards is accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GERMANTON, Saturday.—Large areas of grass have been consumed on Pullitop and Burke's Creek by the bush fires which are racing there. LITHGOW, Saturday.—Bush fires have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday, at 2 p.m., a fire started on the Government reserve, about half a mile from the town. The wind was blowing freshly from the S.W., which rapidly carried the fire on to Momalong, sweeping…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →JERILDERIE, Monday— An extensive bush fire broke out at Tuppal on Friday. The fire swept easterly towards Murray Hut, destroying a large quantity of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →ALBURY, Friday.--Particulars from the scene of the bush fires at Mungabla, Doodle Cooma and Yerong Creek confirm the telegrams received yesterday relative to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We learn by telegraph from Albury that nume-rous bush have which were reported to be burning in almost every direction througbout the Rivering during the past three days have been checked…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call at 5.30 yesterday afternoon for a fire in the stables of Mr. T. B. Batty, wood and coal merchant, Smith-street, Ashfield, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Metropolitan Fire Brigade turned out to two fires on Boxing Day and one on Sunday. Shortly before 4 a.m. on Saturday an outbreak was discovered in the stables of Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.—-A, two-roomed cottage at Ballarat East was destroyed on Friday by fire, the charred body of the owner, Herbert Norris, aged 19, a miner, being found in the debris…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MURRUMBURRAH, Wednesday— About 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the residence of Mr. S. E. Roberts, of Tiverton Station, and in a short time everything in the house, together with…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Mr. Quiall's hotel at Bet Hill was partly burnt down on Thursday night. The cause of the fire is not known. " At the inquest held yesterday on the body…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YOUNG, Friday.--A five-roomed weather board house, the property of J. Stonham. situated at Quartz Reef-hill, was destroyed by the this morning. The people of the…
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