Fires at Adelaide Adelaide
During the last couple of days bush fires have been raging in the hills surrounding Adelaide. Residents of Willunga district were scared when they…
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Blaze of Light Manly Carnival the Final Display
Manly was a blaze of color and light last night. The concluding night of the annual carnival is always celebrated by a…
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Six months or so ago floods swept large areas of New South Wales. To-day the biggest bush-fires for many years are turning thousands of square…
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Bush fires during the week have swept miles of bush country around Heales-ville and the district between there and Bright. Hundreds of men have been…
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A complimentary smoke social and presentation will be tendered to Messrs. Skelton mid Dinyes, of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades, at Brigades Headquarters on…
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When the Cambrian Hotel at Mary-borough caught fire in the early hours this morning, the guests escaped in their night attire, many of them losing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LIFE & Property Are in Daily Jeopardy Failure of Water Pressure During Mammoth Blaze Might Cause City's Total Destruction Sydney Wants Firefloat : Existing Appliances Disgracefully Obsolete
OF a mammoth fire broke out in any section of the city of Sydney from the waterfront as far as Park-street, and if the water supply weakened or completely broke down, the whole city would be in danger of total demolition. As at present constituted, the N.S.W. Fire Brigades could not cope with such a serious conflagration. Billions of pounds' worth of public property, and thousands of human lives, are thus in daily and nightly jeopardy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Fire Shots Sensational Raid at Newtown Battering Rams Used on Dooes Alleged Two-up School Broken Up
One of the most sensational alleged gambling raids yet conducted by the Sydney police was carried out in a disused factory in King-street, St. Peters, late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Is at the Mercy of the Fire God Frances Barry Bride Society Romance Daughter of Gerald Barry, Popular Solicitor Marriage Sequel to World's Tour
A romance that, of course, belongs to Sydney, burst shyly into flower in the quiet little town of Adelaide at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, when a lovely maid, well known in Sydney society, stepped off the steamer Cathay, which had just arrived from London, into the arms and limousine…
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Bush fires raging in Victoria and southern New South Wales are delaying interstate shipping. Big steamers have been compelled by dense smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fires. Still Blazing. Period of Anxiety. Albury
The heat now being experienced is most severe, and as there is no immediate prospect of rain, the anxieties regarding the prevailing bush fires east of Albury have…
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After a desperate all-night fight by hundreds of men and women, the township of Upper Ferntree Gully was saved from a bush fire…
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WHEN A FIRE broke out at the residence of Richard Roger, in Camden-street. Fairfield, on Saturday firemen had a hard fight to prevent the…
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Great and wonderful as are the rewards which the "man upon the land" may woo from the fruitful soil, magnificent as are the value and Imprtance to the State of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Narrandera Fires Narrandera
The fourth tire outbreak in Narrandera since the Christians holidays occurred yesterday, when a four-roomed weatherboard collage house occupied by Mr. Hearne…
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Fire headquarters report that at Fairfield 150 acres of bush were destroyed to-day, and at Chullora ten acres were burnt…
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After 26 hours fighting, in which a number of people assisted, what would have proved a dangerous bush fire near Borenore has been extinguished…
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Tho Hteamer Cairnhill, [?] tons, which left Fremantle on January 27, for Alexandria, reports that she has a fire in the hold, but it is under…
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A four-roomed cottage occup[?]ed by Richard Rogers, of Camden-street, Fairfield, was burnt out yesterday. The house was well alight when…
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A fire occurred at noon yesterday, when the residence and surgery of Dr. Schwartz narrowly escaped destruction. The interior walls and cellings were badly charred and damaged…
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