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The whole of the North Coast is suffering from a drought. It is not a drought as the western grazier knows it. There is grass, and cattle are not dying from thirst and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the last ten days the weather was hotter than had been experienced previously for many years. Bush fires are burning all round, although net yet close into town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out shortly before midday in the bush between Manly and Clontarf, and at the time this edition went to press was still blazing furiously…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The remarkable prevalence of tires in and about Sydney and throughout New South Wales points to a condition of things which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire, which quickly attracted a huge crowd of spectators, broke out at about 6 o'clock this afternoon in P. Chatfield and Company's free store, 77 Macquarie-street, City…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Q.: What is gained by drawing the fires when a steamer is about to sink?—("R.H.M." Rand-wick.) A.: Widely different opinions have been A. Widely different opinions have been express…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drilling soldiers in the task of how to fish under galling fire was the key role of this year's big military manoeuvres of the Japanese army at Nagoya, according to foreign experts…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At 5 a.m. on Thursday a truck load of produce (straw and pumpkins) caught fire in the marshalling yards at Clyde, and blazed up fiercely, endangering some loads…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE PLACE IN FLAMES AT HALF-PAST SIX LAST RIGHT. (Details are printed on page 1.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A quarter of an hour after the employees of tho Australuton Straw Hat Factory in Foveaux-street, Surry-hills, had left their work -- a few minutes before 6 o'clock -- last evening, the two…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"I was in Pekin," said a tourist, "When a fire broke out a few doors below the house in which I was lodging; and at the first alarm I rushed out and into the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →By the defeat of Alderman H. M. Shedden, of Newcastle, at the recent municipal elections a vacancy has arisen in the office of country representative on the Fire Brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Another serious fire occurred last evening, when the Australuton Hat Factory, Foveauxstreet, Surry Hills, was gutted. The fire broke out shortly before 6 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A fire broke out this afternoon in the free stores of Messrs. R. P. Chatfield and Co., of Circular Quay, opposite the Watson's Bay ferry wharf. Firemen under Chief-officer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The president of the Water and Sewerage Board said this afternoon in conversation with an "Evening News" reporter that if the strike continued long, and prevented the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday afternoon the local fire brigades extinguished small grass fires at Night-street, Arncliffe, and Liverpool-road, Enfield, extending over areas of three acres and one acre…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire broke out yesterday afternoon in the free store's of Messrs. R. P. Chatfield and Co., of Circular Quay, opposite the Watson's Bay ferry wharf. Firemen under Chief-officer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Macquarie Bond Stores at 77 Macquarie-street were damaged by fire to the extent of approximately £1900 yesterday afternoon. The building (a stone one) extends from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Edward Tower (84), while assisting in beating buck the flames in a bush fire that was raging in the Kyneton district fell from exhaustion. When discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A large number of bush fires broke, out last week along the whole of the western side of the Island's timber belt. A settler, named Donnelly, who was the first selector to take…
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