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Early on Monday morning of last week the slumbering residents of Grafton were roused from their beds by an alarm of fire. The fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. Moor he ad, draper, about…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The death roll at the great fire at Baku, on the Caspian Sea, when a petroleum magazine was burnt and several springs were fired, numbers hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A four-roomed weatherboard cottage situated at the corner of Percival and Piper streets, Leichhardt, was the scene of a serious fire early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At an early hour this morning the Leic[?]a[?]dt Volunteer Fire Brigade received a call to a fire at the corner of Peroeval and Piper streets, Leichhardt. The brigade at once turned out, and found a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Disastrous bush fires have occurred in many districts of Victoria. In some instances valuable pastoral properties have been swept, homesteads burned to the ground, and people…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out on Stony Park yesterday and spread with great rapidity, forcing its way to the east, travelling in the direction of Albury. Last night it reached Splitter's Creck, burning through…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The most disastrous fire known in the history of Grafton broke out in Mr. Morehead's drapery establishment early on Monday, January 21. The place was soon enveloped in. flames, and despite…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →QUEENSTOWN (TASMANIA), Friday.--When the Area were burning around Queenstown on January 25, endangering the town and destroying houses, it was little thought that within a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Bush fires throughout the State have ravaged most districts worse than a tornado. Valuable properties have been swept away, and numerous families rendered homeless,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush fires have ravaged most districts of Victoria worse than a tornado. The western district, which suffered so severely some time ago, was again a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A petroleum magazine, containing 720,000,000lb., has been burnt at Baku, a seaport on the Caspian Sea. Four petroleum springs were fired, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The terrible havoc wrought by last week's bush fires in Victoria, Tasmania, and New South Wales instances vividly the nature of the struggle which the settlers who "go on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The West Coast lines were blocked from 3 o'clock on Thursday until F[?]day afternoon. Bush fires have been raging along the line. At 4 o'clock on Thursday Queenstown was regarded as being in imminent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →William H. James died in the Colac Hospital on Saturday night from the effect of injuries received in the terrible bush fires which have devastated the fertile and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reports this [?]ng from Jindera, Moorwatha, Huon, Burngowannah, Stony Park, and Splitters' Creek describe terrible ravages made by fire among the farmers of this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another victim, the fifth, of the terrible fire at Birregurra, died at the Colac Hospital on Saturday afternoon in the person of William H. James, 30, years of age. He was severely burnt about the face and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shortly after midnight on Friday a fire was discovered in an unoccupied weather board cottage at the corner of Percival and Piper streets…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.—The retail department of Messrs. M'Brair Bros., hardware merchants, Flinders-street, was destroyed by fire early this morning. Much Mock was destroyed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.-- fires, many of which are still burning, did more damage than any since that of "Black Thursday." The Portland district…
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