The Recent Bush Fires
Later reports from our correspondents state that volunteers numbering over 200 turned out at Kimo and Nangus stations to combat the flames, which had reached Wantabadgery, but after many valiant…
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How Bush Fires Start
ARMIDALE, Friday. -- At the local Police Court to-day, before the Police Magistrate, a youth named Richard Clutterbuck, aged 15, was fined 10s and costs, in default four days' imprisonment…
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Sir,—The accounts coming to hand of the destruction caused by the bush fires cannot but strike a sympathetic chord in the heart of everyone, and it is appalling to think of…
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SIR,—The accounts coming to hand of the destruction caused by the bush fires cannot but strike a sympathetic chord in the heart of everyone, and it is appalling to think of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bush Fires. Bush Brigades: a Good Example. (By One Who Saw Them.)
As one who witnessed many of the conflagrations in southern New South Wales last week, must say that, the precautions taken by farmers and graziers to prevent their property being swept…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Australian Town and Country Journal. "Past. Present. Future." Sydney, Saturday, January ll, 1902. The Bush Fires
The appalling destruction wrought by the bush fires that swept the country from Wagga to Gundagai, leaving ruin and desolation in their track, are of too recent occurrence to heed any detailed…
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The residence of a farmer named M'Le[?]a[?], together with all the contents, has been destroyed by fire. There was no insurance on the property…
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From Melbourne comes news of a sensational escape of three girls from a burning room in a house at Li[?]. In the early hours of Saturday morning, the three…
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CANOWINDRA, Friday.—A bush fire broke out yesterday on Conomodine Station, owned by Mr. J. M. Atkinson, of Sydney, when a hundred acres of grass was burnt, also the outhouses of the…
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The Boyd patent fire escape was recently given a successful public trial in Auckland (N.Z.). The canvas in the shute was tested up to a weight-carrying capacity of 12cwt. The shute…
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The Parramatta coroner held an inquest at Prospect concerning the death of the child, Amy May Craddock, which was reported in the "Evening News" on Wednesday. The father, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No More Fires at Sea Striking Experiments with Preventive Gas
A gas that will put out fire has been experimented with in England recently with some very striking results. The name of this useful antifire agent is sulphur-dioxide gas…
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Further investigations which have been made by the police into the fatal fire at 161 Nicholson-street, Carlton, on Sunday night, lead them to believe that the occurrence was not accidental. An arrest has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Sensational Fire. Destruction off a Doctor's Laboratory
Dr. Armstrong's laboratory, detached from his r[?] on Mount Erington, Hornsby, was demolished by fire on Wednesday night. The fire broke out at about…
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In connection with the fatal fire that occurred on Sunday in a ham and beef shop at 161 Nicholson-street, Carlton, a Melbourne suburb, by which a little boy was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →His Baptism of Fire. (Complete Short Story.)
In imagination the young subaltern felt his fate sealed before a shot was fired ; he felt deadly sick, almost paralysed ; his own captain told him his face was enough to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand. Extensive Bush Fires. Wellington
Extensive bush fires are raging in several localities on the west coast of the Middle Island. Two large sawmills on Grey Valley have been seriously endangered. A very valuable silver pine forest is also…
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Shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the headquarters and Darlinghurst branch of the M.F.B. received a call to "Agincourt," Wild-street, Potts Point, the residence of Mr. H…
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