Burned to Death. Fatal Bush Fires. Launceston
Bush fires are occurring over all the north and north-west of Tasmania. Numbers of farmers have been burnt out, losing everything. Mrs. Ryan…
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Melbourne Fire
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The top floor of Gaylard, Greenwood, and Cocking's promises, Flinders Court, was gutted by fire to-day. The damage is estimated at several thousands of…
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News has been received here of a disastrous fire which broke out at 9 o'clock this morning in Edward-street, Canbelego. The premises destroyed include:—…
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A serious fire occurred this afternoon in a three-story brick structure in Flinders-court, a lane off Little Flinders-street. The property was owned by the Melbourne Builders' Lime…
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The New Zealand liner Rimutaka is putting into Dakar, West Africa, with a Are in the lower hold and between decks. It is intended to flood the holds…
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Despatches from Field Marshal Sir John French, now available, mention that recent developments in armaments and the latest methods of warfare have imposed great drawbacks on a vigorous winter campaign…
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Extensive bush fires have done great damage in the best grassed and most fertile parts of West Australia—Bunbury and Busselton districts. At Upper Capel…
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LAUNCESTON, Thursday.--The most devastating bush fires ever known in Tasmania have swept over the North-west Coast and other districts. The extent of the damage cannot be…
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Exceptionally severe bush fires have been raging in Ro[?]ky Cape, Black River, Mengha, and Trowutta. Owing to the dry season an anxious night was spent in Mengha, where the…
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The bush fire that broke out on Saturday at North Jack, on the eastern side of the Orange Rocks Hill, about ten miles from Bathurst was one of the…
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At midday on Wednesday, three stacks of hay, standing on Wattle Vale, near West Wyalong (N.S.W.) the property of John Cattle and Herbert F. Selems…
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On Sunday morning a fire occurred in Peter Holey's drpery establishment, Forbes (N.S.W.) in the centre of a number of business premises. The whole of…
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A store and dwelling, with post and telephone office, at Quandary (N.S.W.) were burnt down on Saturday night. No one was on the premises at the time…
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BOWRAVILLE, Thursday.--A disastrous fire broke out in High Street, Bowraville last night when five shops were destroyed The fire was first discovered in Alley bros general…
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A fire broke out shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday in a house in Edwin Street, Ashfield, occupied by Walter Craig, and spread to the adjoining place, occupied by Phillip Thornton…
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Fire almost [?] has house and badly damaged another at [?] late yesterday afternoon. The place not going in the house of Mr. Walter Craig, in Edwin-street, and before the…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The steamer Rimutaka, bound from Australian ports to London, has gone to Dakar, French West Africa, with a fire in the No. 3 lower hold and the 'tween decks…
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A fire occurred in a haystack at [?] Station, destroying about 10 tons of straw, 11 tons chaff, and a complete chaff-cutting plant, and [?] new all engine, the property of Mrs…
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A cable has come to hand stating that the F. and S. liner Rimutaka is making for Dakar, on the coast of Africa, in consequence of an outbreak…
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For several days extensive bush fires have been raging throughout Tasmania, particularly on the east and north-west coasts; Serious damage has been done…
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