Bush Fires. Carcoar
Bush fires, which have been raging for a few days about Wangoola and between Carcoar and Blayney, are being gradually extinguished…
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Bush Fires. Heavy Losses
The bush fires, which have been and are still raging in the country, have done considerably more damage than was expected. In the Wagga district over 6OOO areas of grass…
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WAGGA, Wednesday.--Further particulars to hand show that the bush fire which started near Yerong on New Year's Day was of a most disastrous nature. The fire broke out on Grubben…
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A fire, which started on Grubben on New Year's Day, burned through Egan's Creek and Cookard[?] and continued its [?] through Mangoplab, where it destroyed hundreds of acres of grass and a…
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The police authorities received information by telegraph to-day to the effect that a four-roomed weatherboard cottage owned and occupied by Henry Harkins at Cooranboog was totally destroyed by fire…
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A fire, which destroyed a four-roomed house and cellar belonging to Mr. Henry Hawkins, of Cooranbong, occurred at 8 o'clock this morning. Mr. Hawkins, who was uninsured,…
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INVERELL, Wednesday.--The following are the particulars of the insurances on the buildings destroyed in the fire last night:--Cottage, owned by P. C. Campbell and occupied by Mr. Fell,…
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LONDON, January 9.-A shocking disaster has occurred at an orphan asylum at Rochester, New York, and at which there were 175 inmates. A fire broke out, during which a boiler…
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A disastrous fire has occurred at an orphan asylum containing 175 children, at Bocucsler, New York. A boiler exploded, and it completely…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--A terrible disaster has happened in Rochester, New York, owing to an outbreak of fire in an orphan asylum…
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HENTY, Thursday.-The fire that started on Wallandool on Sunday morning has broken out on John Riddel's farm in the cultivation paddock. How it originated is a mystery, and will…
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At Echuca Police Court to-day Charles Derris was fined £50, in default three months' gaol, for causing bush fires by carelessly throwing down the lighted butts of cigarettes…
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Shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the headquarters station of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to an outbreak in Haystreet. Upon arrival there, the fire was found…
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An inquest was initiated at Chancery-square yesterday by Dr. Todd, Deputy City Coroner, into the circumstances connected with the fire which took place at the premises occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in the City. an Oil Store Ablaze
A firs occurred last evening in premises occupied be the Vacum Oil Comapany situated at 109 to 123 Hay-street. The outbreak took place in a two-storted building adjoining the main stores of the…
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A bush fire broke out to-day at Kaarimba. five miles west of Numurkah, and swept to within half a mile of Wahgunyah township. A boy playing with matches is supposed to have been…
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A destructive bush are nae taken place in the Numurkah district. The flames extended over a strip of country six miles wide. A change of wind in the evening stopped further damage, driving back the…
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A deputation comprising Messrs. Nielsen, Rose, and Watson, M's.P., waited on the chairman of the Advances to Settlers' Board yesterday to discuss a scheme for assisting burnt-out settlers,…
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"COBAR, Friday.-On Thursday morning, at about l o'clock, a destructive fire occurred' in a grocery store occupied by Mr. Grattan in Linsley-street,. which consisted of eight rooms. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How Canadian Indians Make Fires
The cheapness of lucifer matches has brought them into almost universal use, and the starting of fires by primitive methods is quickly becoming a lost art, even among Indians…
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