Bush Fire
About 7.30 on Friday, January 11, a fire broke out in the bush near Cumberland-avenue. Cabramatta, and Constable Bourke Informed Captain Collins, who is…
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Bush Fires 40,000 Acres Burnt Thrilling Fight Hay
Disastrous bush fires broke out at Togamain. Great walls of flame, beneath a mountain of dense smoke, sped at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass, Fencing, and Lucerne Damage by Bush Fires HAY
A bush fire, which broke out at Togunmain Station, swept through Clifford Downs holding, and the corner of Cooinbil, on to Kerarbury, when…
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On Tuesday last there were further outbreaks of bush fire in the vicinity of Hornsby, Normanhurst, and Wahroonga. Fortunately, the fires occurred in scrub…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Beecroft. Excessive Heat and Fires
Intensely hot weather prevailed in Reecroft and Ohelter.ham on Thursday last. Tao make matters worse, fiercee fires raged In the valleys. A considerable…
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To warn miners of the presence of fire damp, a lamp has been invented in England that sounds a clear musicial note when the atmosphere contains two per cent, of this…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Fire at Wunderlich's
A fire broke out in the engine-room of Wunderlich's Tile Works at Camellia, shortly after 9.30 p.m. on Thursday. Mr. Harry Vaughan. an employee of the firm,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Factory Gutted Another Newtown Blaze Two Other Buildings Suffer
Tagett and Pearson's furniture factory, which is within a stone's throw of Marcus Clark's emporium, which was gutted in the big blaze on…
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A weatherboard cottage near the Bushman's Dam was burnt down while the occupants (Mrs. Root and family) were away. Portion of the furniture was saved. The house…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire at Auburn Police Investigtaing
The police are investigating an outbreak of Are in premises occupied by P. Bell, bootmaker, in Sydney Road, off Parramatta Road, Auburn, last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Newtown. Heavy Damage
Newtown was the scene of another fire last night, when the premises and contents of Messrs. Todgett and Pearson, cabinetmakers, of No. 2 Brock-lane, off Wilson-street, were…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Forty Girls Trapped by Fire
Trapped by fire on the top floor of a house at 16 Woodstock Street, Oxford Street, London, one morning last month, several working girls had a narrow escape from death…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →Fire at Forbes. Forbes
A weatherboard house, owned by Mr. James Edwards, and occupied by Mr. Lindsay Moody, a railway fireman, was partially destroyed by fire, the Forbes brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire at Mine. Lithgow
The fire brigade received a call to the Zig Zag mine last night, and Captain Martin and nine men were promptly on the spot. They found a stack of pit props, situated only a few…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire at Lismore. Lismore
In the early hours of this morning Currie's fruit and refreshment room, adjoining Langley's Imperial Hotel, was gutted by fire. Parker and Preston's plumbers' shop on the other side had…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Grass Fire. Damage in Riverina. Hay
An extensive grass fire started on Toganmain Station on Wednesday morning. It was not got under control until yesterday evening. It destroyed about 6000 acres on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fire in Melbourne. Knitting Mills. Building Destroyed. MELBOURNE
Within an hour to-night a fire which begun and developed with remarkable suddenness and speed completely destroyed the premises of the Australian Knitting Mills, Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →"Suburb in Ashes" Fire Officer's Warning Government Must Act Melbourne
On his return from a fire, which gutted the Australian Knitting Mills at Richmond last night, Chief Fire Officer H. B. Lee said: "If further…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dubbo Fire. Alleged Shortage of Water. Inquiry to Be Held. Dubbo
At a meeting of the Dubbo Municipal Council the allegations that there was a shortage of water at a recent fire were discussed, and it was resolved:—"That, in view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Setting Good Example Councillors Fight Bush Fires GRENFELL
Bush fires are raging about two miles north of the town. When the cry for fire-fighters rang through the streets to-day the Shire…
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