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Councillor Clemons, president of the South Gippsland Shire, telegraphed to-day to the Premier from Foster:—"Fires near the township and all through the hill country…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sylvester Williams was sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Maryborough this morning for starting bush fires. The evidence showed he threw lighted matches into…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The atmosphere is laden with smoke from bush fires, which are active in nearly every locality from the Huon district away to Fingal and Mathinna. Thus far no reports of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Inspector-General of Police has forwarded to the State Premier (Mr. J. H. Carruthers) a report concerning the recent bush fires in the Fifield district. In this report it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The fierce gale raging on Wednesday calmed down to summer halcyon weather to-day, and the threatening bush fire calamities were temporarily averted. News of Wednesday's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Among the communications received by the Inspector-General of Police regarding the bush fires is one from a constable, in which he states that great damage to crops had been done in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The report by Alderman Lindsay Thompson, City Council's representative on the Fire Brigades' Board, showing the assessed value of property under the charge of the board, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fire which broke out in Liverpool-street was fortunately extinguished promptly. It occurred at White and Walker's grocery stores, and it is attributed to incendiarism…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A labourer named Frank Lowe, who had a contract for clearing grass and weeds from the cemetery, was before the police court to-day charged with the careless use of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The post office and adjoining residence of Mr. Charles Pattrick, at Rhine Falls, midway between Cooma and Adaminaby, were destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about 11.20 to-night a fire broke out in the large furniture warehouse and factory of James Marshall and Co., which is situated an North Terrace, opposite the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a private letter received here a writer, describing a visit to the volcano at Tofoa, Samoa, says:—"The sight which met our eyes as we gained the edge of the mountain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--A telegram from Foster to-night states that bush fires are still burning in the vicinity. Until rain falls-there is bound to be a recurrence of fires throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In a fire at East Shelbourne, near Bondigo, a settler named Charles Mears had a very narrow escape. He is an old-age pensioner, and his house was surrounded by fire. He…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The tragic records of the bush fires which have raged recently over Australia, particularly in the Eastern Statics, have scarcely been equalled by those of past…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The loss of Mr. C. Patrick, whose residence at Rhine Falls was burnt on Wednesday, is estimated at £160. The property was uninsured…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--Last night a fire occurred in the large furniture warehouse and factory of James Marshall and Co., opposite the Exhibition Building. The stock consisted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At 11.20 last night a fire broke out in the large furniture warehouse and factory of James Marshall and Co., which is siluated on North Terrace, opposite the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The recent disastrous fires which have swept over so large a tract of country in the adjacent State with such melancholy results cannot but impress one with a feeling…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A slight outbreak of fire occurred yesterday in promises situated in Broughman-street, Darlinghurst, occupied by Charles Turner. The alarm was given, and steamers…
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