Big Bush Fire
COROWA, Friday.-A report is to hand that a big bush fire broke out near Mabouga on Thursday morning, and travelled towards Day[?] where it is still burning. Persons are out trying…
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COROWA, Friday.-A report is to hand that a big bush fire broke out near Mabouga on Thursday morning, and travelled towards Day[?] where it is still burning. Persons are out trying…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LOCKCHART, Thursday.—A big grass fire broke out to-day in Galore district. The Are started at Sandy Creek, passing through Hollies' Estate (a property recently purchased by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TEMORA, Thursday.-A destructive grass fire has occurred at the residence of Mr. Thos. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A. The wind and heavy grass made all attempts to extinguish it useless. Fully 60…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →What at one time seemed likely to be a fire which would sweep another city block away broke out in Little Collins- street to-night between 9 and 10 o'clock. Before it was conquered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The proposal to remove the Alexandria Fire Station to the Erskineville side of the borough was discussed at the meeting of the Alexandria Council on Wednesday evening. Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The poor pastoralist has a lot to contend with in this country. If he hasn't a drought, he has floods, or fires, or anthrax, or rabbits, or thistles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire started in the Galore district to-day and has destroyed up to the present 4000 ac[?] of grass. The fire was first observed at a place known as Sandy Cr[?]k, traversing the Holli[?] estate, and Th[?]ce it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out in the Euroa butter factory last evening which, owing to a scarcity of water, was of a most disastrous character. The buildings covered about half an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out to-night in a three-storied brick building situated in Little Collins-street West, occupied by Messrs. Mason, Firth, and M'C[?] [?] printers and manufacturers of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MOREE, Friday.--The fire which broke out on Goonal boundary on Tuesday has been mastered. A large number of residents fought the fire, and those who went from Moree have returned…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →COROWA, Friday Afternoon.-Further particulars are to hand re the bush fire at Mahonga. It appears that it broke out on the property of Mr. Donne, New Coreen,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The town has been enveloped in smoke from a bush fire which broke out on New Coreen, the property of Mr. F. Dunn, yesterday morning. A very strong southerly wind was blowing at the time of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation, including Messrs. Watson, Gormly, Hayes, Affleck, Brown, Nellsen, and Carroll, M.'sL.A., waited upon the Chief Secretary yesterday afternoon to ask that relief…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A fire, caused by the electric lighting wires, occurred in the servants'-hall at Government House yesterday afternoon, and burned portion of the celling before it was extinguished. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →That some immediate action should be taken by the Government to give effective relief to those settlors in the south-western portion of the State whose homes have been laid waste…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Hayes, Gormly, Watson, Neilsen, Brown, Affleck, and Carroll, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Chief Secretary (Mr. See) on Friday afternoon to urge that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday afternoon the following Members of Parliament waited upon the Hon. John See (Colonial Secretary) as representatives of their respective districts, to call attention to the disastrous results of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday afternoon a fire, which was caused by the electric light wires, broke out in the servants' hall at Government House. The brigades lost no time in reaching the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. A. Hermiston, of Riversdale Station, near Alexandra, sustained a severe loss by a fire which broke out in a stubble paddock yesterday afternoon. In addition to destroying several straw stacks…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The watercourse fire has been extinguished, and the men who went from Moree have returned. A fire has broken out on the boundary of the Goonal run, destroying all the country on the Big Leather…
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