Disastrous Bush Fire
A most disastrous fire has been raging in the Mount Pleasant district during the post two days. The area the fire has covered is 15 miles long by eight miles wide. The country was…
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Serious Bush Fire
The township of Mount Pleasant has during the day very narrowly escaped being swept by an immense bush fire. Fanned by the wind, the flames gradually swept round the whole of the surrounding…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Melbourne has been scorched up to-day by an Insufferable heat, a heat which lose and buffeted one in the face like a breath from an unquenchable fire. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires. bush near Brucedale. A large quantity of grass was destroyed, also some fencing
ALBURY, Thursday. -- Bush fires continue to burn in various parts of the district, and last night the moon was almost obscured by smoke. A fire which threatened to do a great deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destructive Bush Fires in Victoria. a Man Burnt to Death. Dwellings and Railway Bridges Destroyed. Melbourne
The bush fires which have been raging to various parts of the country have proved very destructive. Great destruction was done to-day in the Branxholme district in the direction of Cape Otway…
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LONDON, Thursday Morning. -- A petroleum magazine, containing 20,000,000 poods (720,000,000lb.) has been burnt at Baku, a seaport on the Caspian Sea…
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Mr. Duplessis, a Dutch pastor at Lindley, has improved the Dutch clergy to cease "blowing the fire of destruction," and declares that under the influence of despair and fanaticism…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on the Pyrenees. the Vessel Destroyed. Beached at Gambier Island. the Crew at Tahiti
AUCKLAND, Thursday. -- The Union Company's steamer, Ovalau, which arrived here this morning from the Islands, brings news of the destruction by fire of the barque Pyrenees, bound…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News by Cable. [Copyright.] The Boer War. Appeal to Cape Clergy From a Dutch Pastor. "The Fire of Destruction."
LONDON, February 7, 2.25 p.m.-The Rev. Mr. Duplessis, the pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of Lindley, Orange River Colony, implores the Cape Dutch clergy to "cease blowing the fire…
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The late exceptional heat in the south has caused bush fires on a scale rarely, equalled, both in western Victoria and Tasmania, while South Australia and part of New South Wales…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.--The damage done by fire in the Mount Pleasant district is estimated at many thousands of pounds. Hundreds of sheep including stud rams, have been destroyed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fires in Tasmania. Sixty Houses Destroyed. Hobart
The Commissioner of Police has received a wire stating that sixty houses were burut down a[?] Queenstown and Linda valley on Thursday night. The homeless occupants are sheltering in the Town…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Victorian Bush Fires. Two More Fatalities. a Blackened Wilderness. Melbourne
A telegram was received to-night from Hamilton that an old man named Charles Anderson, while trying to get a horse out of bnrning stables, fell into the fire and perished. This makes the second fatality…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Second Edition. the Bush Fires in Tasmania. Great Distruction of Property. Launceston
The West Coast lines were blocked from 3 o'clock yesterday up to this aiternoon. Bush fires have been raging along the line. At 4 o'clock yesterday Queenstown was regarded as being in imminent…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fires in New South Wales. Homesteads and Stocks Destroyed. Loss of Life Feared. Hot Day in the City
From a very early hour in the morning yesterday, it was evident that Sydney was to be persecuted by another insufferably hot day. Coming as it did upon people enervated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Disastrous Bush Fires. Ravages in Victoria. Fanned by the Gale. Settlers Narrowly Escape. Four Boys Burned to Death. Melbourne
Further particulars to hand of the wind and dus[?] storm last evening show that considerable damage was done. The fruit gardens in particular suffered. Many tons of fruit were striped off the trees…
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The Leichhardt Volunteer Fire Brigade received a call from the fire alarm box at this corner of Percival and Piper streets, Leichhardt, at 12.29 this morning to the effect that an…
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NEWCASTLE coal-miners are, when working, entitled to receive one ton of fire coal monthly. The Proprietors have discovered that…
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THE fourth annual meeting of this Brigade was held at the Fire Station, Hurstville, on Monday last. There was a good attendance, and the report…
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Laat night reflections from a large bush fire wert seen, appearing to pass over a big tract of country. The fire at Burrumbuttock and Goombargoua is more serious than was at first reported. In loss than…
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