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Just when the success of the work of the Forestry Department was to be announced a fire has laid waste several hundreds of acres of valuable timber at Murraguldrie…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"THE fire in the Bellbird Mine was caused by a naked light, possibly by a glowing cigarette, but there was no evidence to prove that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singed by the flames, firefighters are still desperately beating back a fierce blaze that has already consumed between 2000 and 3000 sheep around Gerogery. Mr. N. Whealer, manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The heaviest losers in the big bush fires at Gerogery, near Albury, are Wyatt De Little, of Wyumbn Station; John Daly, between Gerogery and Mullengandra; and M…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →All that was left of a Birrell-street bus after a crash and two fires. The first fire, about midnight, was just after it ran into a rubbish tip in Alfred-street, Waverlay, and the driver and conductor put it out. A second fire, of five this morning. demolished it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"KNOCKOUT" BILL YATES, a London boxer, stoked his way to Australia in the Bendigo. He has issued a challenge to any heavy-weight here. WON HIS NAME—Yates with tome midgets of the stokehold. His…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →An extraordinary growth of paspalum grass has been responsible for several outbreaks of fire in the vicinity of houses. The latest was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RUINS OF ABERDEEN HOUSE, CLARENCE-STREET…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The contention that the majority of bush-fires are caused by carelessness, and originate outside forest areas, is confirmed by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE huge Palais Picture The atre at St. Kilda beach was completely destroyed by a whirl of flame this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although a big reflection was visible from Lane Cove last night, firemen could not locate the outbreak until a radio message was broadcast…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PARKE, DAVIS AND CO., manufacturing chemists, narrowly cs. escaped destruction in yesterday morning big city fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fires at Tabletop have been controlled on the Gerogery side of the hills, but a wide area of fine grass country has been swept…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the fire at the Palais Theatre, St. Kilda, yesterday, was well advanced, the caretaker of the building, Robert Platt, realising that his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The store belonging to Mr. L. P. Kendall, at Darlington Point, was gutted by fire early this morning. The stock was also destroyed. An employee named Gallagher was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A 'bus bolted in Alfred-street, Bronte, about 2 a.m. to-day, and ran over the road into the municipal rubbish tip. It caught fire, but the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →ECHOES of the disastrous fire at the Oriental Hotel, Hongkong, were heard on the Tarping when that vessel arrived to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The "Montreal Star," in a leader, says: We in Canada feel special sympathy for the people of New South Wales and Victoria who have suffered through extensive forest fires…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Palais Picture Theatre, on the St. Kilda Esplanade, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. The damage is estimated at £35,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Mepha[?], who has been wireping or the veraudad of his lour-roomed weather board cottage, s[?] something burning on opeating the [?] he [?] the…
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