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ALBURY, Friday.-Further particulars just to hand with respect to the recent bush fires show that immense damage has been done in the surrounding districts. On Mahony Station 60,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Joseph Kops, on remand, was charged yesterday at the police court before Mr. N. Connolly, P.M., with attempting to set fire to his premises in Bridge street, Cowra, on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CONDOBOLIN, Friday.--A very large area of valuable pasture lands has been ravaged by lire in this district. Many selectors have lost all their grass and much fencing, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LARGE bush fires were reported on Saturday within five miles of Junee. The wind was very high. The flames were carried along rapidly, and about 60 acres of standing corn was burned,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →BETWEEN fire aud water the lot of the farmer in the Riverina district can he idly be called a happy one. When his crops are not spoiled by floods his harvest is too often swept off by bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →FORBES, Wednesday.—Extensive bush fires are raging on many stations in this district. Fires have already occurred on Tregalana, Weelong, and Boyd Runs, and yesterday fierce fires were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ALBURY, Wednesday.-Enormous looses have been caused by She bach fire which has raged in the northern portian of this distaict during the peat six days…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At 3 o'clock this morning the headquarters station of the M.F.B. received a call by telephone from the watchman at the Kerosene and Shale Works, Ultimo, to a fixe in premises…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the meeting of this board on Wednesday. 18th instant, the balance-sheet for the year just concluded was presented and adopted Reports received from the superintendent stated that the inquest on the fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT the meeting of this board on Wednesday last the balance-sheet for the year just concluded was presented and adopted. Reports were received from the superintendent that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the meeting of this board on Wednesday the balance-sheet for the year just concluded was presented and adopted. Reports were received from the superintendent that the inquest on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our illustration depicts a destructive conflagration which occurred at Kempsey at 1 a.m. on Monday, 2nd instant. The ravages of the devourirg element were very rapid and extensive, as in the space of…
Continued on Trove, page 136 →At about 3 o'clock this morning a fire was discovered in a produce store tenanted by Mr. Francis Young, situated in the Ultimo-road, Ultimo. The building was completely gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A train in Russia caught fire, and 50 young soldiers were burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 128 →IT is announced elsewhere in this issue that the annual general meeting of the above company will take place at the Exchange on Tuesday next, when the annual report and balance sheet mil be sub…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Illustrations of the destructive fire which broke out in a block of buildings at Kempsey on January 2, and which completely demolished the whole block, containing 13 houses,…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →ALBURY, Monday.-Another fire broke ont here on Saturday night when the dwelling-house of Mrs. Morton, a widow, was totally destroyed, together with the whole of the contents. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the meeting of the Fire Brigades Board on Wednesday the balance-sheet for the year just concluded was presented and adopted. A letter from Messrs. Montague…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WOLLONGONG, Saturday.-Mr. Jas. Martin's about two miles from Wollongong, was burnt completely last night. Mr. Martin had been out shooting, and on his return found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The new fire station at Circular Quay, and the third built to the order of the Government for the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board, is now practically completed, and will be formally opened on…
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