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The Minister for Lands has had telegrams despatched this morning to stock inspectors in fire-stricken districts as follow:-- Sufferers front conflagrations may…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bush fires during the past week were most calamitous in effect, and unfortunately there was some loss of life. On Sunday night the wife of a farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Now that we have received news of the appalling loss of life, stock, and proporty, due to that terrible demon, "fire," it raises the question as to whether a recurrence at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the height of the State's prosperity, when everything pointed to a brighter outlook and it seemed that the pastoralist was to be rewarded for years of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Tumbarumba correspondent furnishes further particulars regarding the havoc wrought by the bush fires. Among those burnt out are two families named Nikon and Mrs. M'Glynn, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BURROWA, Thursday.--The battle of the fire fighters in this district terminated this morning, owing to the timely rainfall. A total of 42 points was registered at the post-ofiice, but heavier…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ravages of the fires in the southern districts, and especially about Wagga and Gundagal and the intermediate and surrounding districts, have been of the most devastating…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The telegrams received by the Chief Secretary this morning from various parts of the country tend to show that the destruction caused has not been as heavy as was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred yesterday at the shop of Karle Webb, hairdresser and tobacconist, in Bridge-road, Burwood, by which a goad deal of damage was done. The greater part…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Hillgreve, correspondent writes.—Bush fires have rageds within a short distance of the town. The village of Metz was threatened with destruction, but a strip of country…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fire on the steamer Buteshire, from New York to Melbourne, Sydney, etc. (which recently arrived at Capetown with fire in No. 3 hold), has again broken out, badly damaging the" cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TEMORA, Wednesday.--A cool change set in last night, with light steady rain. This means an end to the fires, which were still raging. It is impossible to estimate the damage done to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News has been received from Broken Dam, 20 miles distant from here, to the effect that Messrs. Davey and M'Kay, two farmers, have been burnt out. A Mr. Alexander Stewart has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COROWA, Thursday.--The burnt-out settlers have not yet been able to fully estimate their losses, owing to the general mix up of stock. On the Goombargona side of Kentucky the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Buteshire, bound from New York to Melbourne Sydney, and New Zealand ports, recently put into Capetown, and reported that a fire had occurred in No. 3 hold. Yesterday the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. Clarke, D.S.M., two men, William Vivian and William Smith, were charged with igniting grass on December 20, at Castle-hill, to the danger of adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Efforts to find traces of Mr. Rawlinson have not proved successful, and it is feared that he perished in the flames near Wyndham. Further particulars give terrible accounts of losses…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GOULBURN, Thursday.--Great destruction to property was caused by the recent bush fires at Windollama. Mr. R. H. Roberts lost everything except his residence. His brother lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Friday.—The villa residence of Mr. R. Newble, electric telegraph operator, residing at Upper Paddington, was burnt to the ground this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A few weeks ago the superintendents of the Metropolitan Fire Stations of the Eastern States met at Sydney in committee. They discussed the determination of the Postmaster-General to…
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