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Three lives were lost in a fearful fire which swept through Otway Forest yesterday. Mr. Clarkson, one of the oldest settlers in the forest, a man named R. Richards, and a mill…
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Numbers of small bush fires were raping in the suburbs yesterday. Of these a fair proportion were fires which had started during the week-end, and after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Large areas of bush were set alight yesterday, and burned all night. These occurred in most of the bushy and sparsely populated outlying suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]Wilson left Paris [?] America the station was [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As outbreak of fire at Caulfield (Vic.) resulted io nearly £20,000 worth of damage to the timber yards of Young, Martshall, and Company. The fire passed over an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William John Doran, 20, pleaded not guilty, at the Darlinghurst Sessions this morning, to a charge of stealing three bottles of whisky, a bottle of brandy,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An outbreak of fire is reported to have [?] on board the steamer Victor a. [?] lying in Neutral Bay The [?] of a passing ferryboat noticed smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A ghastly tragedy occurred en Saturday last, owing to a huge fire sweeping through the Otway Forest (Vic). Mr. Clarkson, one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Timely warning from the master of a ferry boat belonging to the Sydney Ferries was the means of preventing a serious outbreak of fire on the steamer Victoria in Neutral Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday afternoon, W. Edmonds, a wheat-stacker, saved a large section of the Wheat Commission's wheat stacks at Maryborough (Vic.) from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out in premises occupied by Richard Jones, in Edgecliff-road, Woolla[?]ra, yesterday morning. The flames spread from an outhouse to an adjoining block of vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A machinery and store shed at Mullengeen Station was destroyed by fire, and its contents, which included a large quantity of seed wheat and harness,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At the opening of a new fire brigade residence, adjoining the first station at Nowra, Captain Bennett, in proposing the toast of "The Fire Commissioners," made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was ample evidence of the danger of fire from sparks from railway engines given at an inquiry into the fire that destroyed the Blacktown Timber…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is reported that in the Otway forest fire 100 homesteads have been burnt. About 500 persons are homeless, and to make things worse, it has been raining off and on since…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Epping was the scene of an extensive bush fire yesterday afternoon. An area of about 50 acres was burnt. The fire, which broke out shorlty after 1 o'clock, made rapid headway,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COLAC, Vic., Wednesday.--The fire which raged in Beach Forest on Saturday swept through Devon Dale. Apollo Bay township was threatened but the danger was averted owing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early yesterday morning a spark from a copper lire mused the caused the laundry of Mrs. Gold bourne's home in North Street, Auburn, to catch alight. The local lire brigade succeeded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Reports c[?]tinue to arrive from districts ravaged by disastrous bush fires. Many people have had narrow escapes from being burned alive…
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