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The bush fires are now under control after burning over an area of 10 miles long and five miles wide at the west side of Adelong. Messrs. Melrose Brothers, A. W. Crain, David Watson, Willism…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Smouldering bush fires in the western district are being carefully watched to guard against them getting fresh headway. The damage done at Framlingham, an important…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The intense heat caused destructive bosh fires to break out in various parts of Victoria last week. Many Bottlers lost heavily. The wind afterwards changed, bringing steady rain…
Continued on Trove, page 307 →Shortly after 3 o'clock this morning a watchman on duty in Wynvard-lane noticed the glare of fine through the back windows of the first floor of Messrs. Lichtner and Co.'s warehouse, 14…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A corps, composed of New South Wales men, was shelled by Vickers-Maxim guns near Colescorp. No casualties resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, January 31.—Further, details of the battle of Spion Kop show that when aware that the British held the highest part of the mountain the Boers, from an invisible position on lower…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →When Major-General Wynne was retiring on Monday after his feint attack on the enemy, one of his guns was overturned. It was righted by the artillery…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The heavy fire maintained by the Boers from Spion Kop on Monday imperilled the 78th Battery. The coolness of their wounded captain enabled the battery to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, February 9.—The "Daily News" correspondent states that the West Australian troops under Captain H. G. Moor are at Slingersfontein, eight miles south-east of Colesberg…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DE AAR (SOUTH AFRICA), January 4, 1900.— Right, along the western frontier the various British columns seem to have decided to mark time until the arrival of Lord Roberts, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The Western Australian troops have been under fire. One has been slightly wounded. They all desire to assure Australia that they are doing good work in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BELMONT (CAPE COLONY), January 4.—The ambulance waggons under Captain Roth have just arrived here from Sunnyside, attended by severa) waggon loads of refugees from Douglas, and…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →A bush fire, which might have been serious but for the prompt action of the North Sydney branch of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, broke out last night at the north-western, corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TILBA TILBA, Saturday.—The district coroner (Mr. W. H. Simpson) held an inquiry yesterday into the cause of the fire at Mr. John Young's farm, the particulars of which have already…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About 3 a.m. on Saturday the M.F.B. Brigade was called to a fire at the premises of Lichtner and Co., Wynyard- square. The outbreak, which was in some rubbish at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A corps, composed of New South Wales troops, was shelled by a Vickers-Maxim gun near Coles Kop. No casualties resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--It is reported from North Cape Colony that a force of Boers shelled some New South Wales troops with a Vicker's-Maxim 11b. gun, near Cole's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tho Bo[?]rs report that the forces of General Sir Redvers Buller which on Monday crossed the Tugela, and which advanced on Tuesday and Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A very destructive hush fire has swept over Middle Crock side of Mount Colo. Over 5000 acres of grass and miles of fencing have been destroyed, as well as the homes and stacks of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One of the most disastrous fires that has occurred in Hongkong took place last month. The particulars to hand by the E. and A. liner Airlle yesterday, show that it broke out at West Point,…
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