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For the first time since he took command of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Superintendent Webb bad the painful duty this morning of reporting a fatal accident to one of his men while…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A most sensational occurrence took place at an early hour this morning, during the progress of a fire at Leichhardt, wherein a fireman, Edward John Roberts, belonging to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ORANGE, Sunday.-- A dreadful occurrence was reported from Hiefer Station, five miles from Orange, on the Forbes-road, yesterday afternoon, a fire having occurred at a house…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To many folk whose knowledge of Australian life is drawn from city experience bush fires are perhaps usually regarded as unavoidable calamities. There are plausible…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bad news of bush fires and burned homesteads is hourly increasing, and many parts of the country, which it had been hoped were but lightly affected, now turn out to have suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Details which still continue to come in regarding the terrible bush fires of the last week allow that the earlier estimates of the terrible havoc wrought are well…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fire that swept over Boggy Creek settlement on Thursday night is believed to have originated at Kilfeera, 30 miles away, on Tuesday, and it is reported that the cause of the outbreak was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COOLAMON, Monday. -- Word has come into town that early on Saturday morning the stables attached to the farm of Thomas Webster, Berry Jerry, were burnt to the ground,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COOLAMON, Monday.-On Saturday a destructive fire occurred on the farm of Thomas Webster, Berry Jerry. A large shed and a great quantity of agricultural machinery were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call from the Australian Drug Co.'s premises, O'Connell-street, at 5.35 p.m. yesterday. No time was lost in getting to the scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner held an inquest on Monday afternoon into the circumstances surrounding the death of Edward John Roberts, the fireman who was killed at the fire at Leichhardt that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alderman W. Taylor, the representative of suburban, municipalities on the Fire Brigades Board, has forwarded the following circular letter to the various suburban municipalities…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Australian Drug Company's premises in O'Connell-street were threatened by fire late yesterday afternoon, but owing to the prompt action of the Metropolitan Brigade the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At an early hour yesterday morning the MarrickVille Volunteer Fire Brigade received a call to No. 401 Parramatta-road, Leichhardt, where a fire had occurred in the premises occupied by Daniel Slade, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire, attended by fatal results, occurred at the residence of Mr. Daniel Slade, produce merchant, 401 Parramatta-road, Leichhardt, at an early hour yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WELLINGTON, Tuesday.-Extensive trash fires are reported from various localities in this district. Yesterday a fire broke out in property belonging to Mr. Edward Watkins, of Bodangora…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A bush file broke out yesterday evening on the common, [?] of the town, and was got out this morning. About 500 acres of grass was burned, PARKES, Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush fires have been doing a great amount of damage a few miles from here for the last few days. All male residents of the town and district have been out fighting the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The bush fires, full particulars of which appeared in "The Daily Telegraph" on Saturday, have led the Government to consider whether it is not possible for…
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