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Bush fires were active in nearly every locality from the Huon district way to Fingal and Mathinna (Tasmania). The Hobart Corporation found it necessary to send out fatigue parties to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A cry of fire was raised during a children's service in a Vienna church, and a stampede resulted. Six children were killed, and thirty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Daysdale Police Court on Tuesday, a man named Gustav Birke, a Norwegian, was charged with setting fire to a portion of the Mahonga estate. The accused was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALBURY, Saturday.--Particulars of a fire in the Woomargama district show that it started at the main road, and entered Tabletop paddock, burning some 300 acres of grass. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To the Editor.--I notice that bush fires, which have been so prevalent this summer, have generally been ascribed to the use of phosphorus in the destruction of rabbits, meaning, I…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush fires are still causing much damage on the north-west const. The weather to-day was very hot, and further outbreaks are feared…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush fires have done a lot of damage in the vicinity of the sawmills at Hastings. Miles of tram lines and many bridges have been destroyed. Some of the mills were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There are three different sorts of fires--the house fire, the grass fire, and the bush fire. The city man sometimes knows to his cost the alarm of a house fire, but he can have no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir.—In a leader appearing in yesterday's issue on the bush fires at present so persistent and destructive you conclude by saying "one can do…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At an inquiry held into the fire which destroyed the promises of C. F. Pattrick at Rhine Falls an open verdict was returned. GRENFELL, Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COOMA, Monday.-- An inquiry into the fire at the Rhine Falls post-office was held to-day. It was elicited that the mails had been despatched at midday, and shortly after the office, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The motor chemical engine lately imported by the Fire Brigade received a first practical trial to-day. A fire occurred in a storeroom behind a chemist's shop, and had a good…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday, 3.15 p.m.—A fire occurred yesterday at some almshouses at Rennes. France, a number of lives being lost. The bodies of twelve of the inmates have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifty-three, revolutionaries have been shot at Fellin, Gulf of Riga, European Russia, for setting fire to almshouses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ORANGE, Saturday.—Further particulars of the bush fires around Manildra prove that greater damage has been done than was at first anticipated…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A relief fund for the sufferers by fire at Budgerebong was startod this week, and has realised over £100, which sum was to-day augumented by 10 guineas from the local…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Outbreaks are still occurring in various parts of the State. In the Kiandra district bush fires have been raging. The recent fires in the Condobolin district extended from…
Continued on Trove, page 339 →A Western resident recently down from Condobolin gives a sensational account of the big bush fire that had for eight days been burning out in that district…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →HAY, Tuesday. -- A fire, resulting in the destruction of a large four-roomed dwelling on the Hay irriagtion area, owned and occupied by A. W. Wackwitz, took place at an early hour…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →HAY, Wednesday.—A destructive fire occurred on the local Irrigation area, a substantial dwelling house, owned and occupied by Mr. A. W. Wackwitz and family, being completely…
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