An Australian Bush Fire (A Corrie.)
Away on the brow of a tiny hill a little firt smouldered and blazed, grew bigger and bigger, and began to spread. Far, far down in a leafy gully the trees whispered and moaned,…
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Vic. Bush Fires Over a Wide Area Melbourne
Fierce bushfires are raging in the Belgrave district over a big front. Many guest houses are endangered. Volunteers from surrounding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Menaced by Bush Fires An Old Colonial Homestead with Historic Associations
Last week, when the bush fire demon was raging on his devastating course through a portion of the camden district, it needed almost…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Jockeys Strive for Test Honors -- Bush Fire Desolation
NERVE CENTRE OF SOUTH HEAD Signal Station.--Mr. R. Bell calls pilots, doctors, and what-not on this switch-board. JOCKEYS AT CRICKET.--Reilly (A.J.C.) appeals for l.b.w. against Ken Bracken (A.R.C.) yesterday, at a friendly cricket…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Still Hot Dry Weather Continues Bush Fire Menace Southerly Hits Sydney
There is likely to be a continuance of dry weather for the next couple of days at least, according to Mr. Mares,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fighting Bush Fires. Govt, Seeks Extended 'Phone Hours. Move for State and Federal Co-operation
Following on the disastrous bush fires of the last fortnight, the State Cabinet this week gave close attention to ways and means of combating the flames in country districts An important move in the right direction was a telegraphic request…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Bush Fires Sweep Three States Yallourn Brown Coal Mine Ablaze Women Join Men in Desperate Struggle Against Flames Homes of 1000 Are Threatened
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--With the old open cut of the Yallourn brown coal mine a blazing inferno, and with bush fires advancing behind a 40- mile wind, the settlement and township of Yallourn is in grave peril…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires in Gippsland. Melbourne
The residents of Nowa Nowa, in East Gippsland, turned out in force to-day to protect the town from a serious grass fire extending over an area about 10 miles wide. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fires Still Burning Goulburn District Ravaged
With a front estimated at about 50 miles long, a huge bush fire was, on Wednesday, ravaging country in the Abercromble Mountains, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hot Time Fires at Jingellic Albury
Jingellic is being ravaged by a bushfire which broke out yesterday. Thousands of acres of grass and miles of fencing have been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Leichhardt Fire. Cottage Destroyed
A weatherboard cottage at 101 Charles-street, Leichhardt, was destroyed, and the two adjoining houses were damaged, by a fire which broke out about 2 o'clock yesterday…
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The furniture in one room of a flat on the first floor of Roslya Flats, Roslyn-road, Darlinghurst, was severely damaged by fire early yesterday morning. The fire had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Suspicious Fire. Lithgow
The presencr of a quantity of sawdust, smelling strongly of kerosene, in an unoccupied billiard saloon in Main-street, lead the police to believe that a fire which occurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mountain Fires Houses : Machines Co Mount Victoria
[?] Vale the bush fires reached [?] hard, and houses and machin[?] daily destroyed. [?] man in Mount Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Careless Motorist. Causes Street Fire. Kempsey
Carelessness in exposing a naked flame while filling at a petrol bowser was responsible for a fierce blaze in the main street of Kempsey. A traveller pulled into the pump,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire Destroys Home at Wallerawang Lithgow
Leaving her weatherboard home at Wallerawang to purchase some fruit for a children's party, Mrs. T. Glynn returned a few minutes later to find it in flames. None of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Events in New South Wales Urunga Fire
A weatherboard cottage of six rooms, at Urunga, owned by Mrs. Tait, was destroyed by fire last week. It was occupied by George Richardson,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mountains Ravaged by Fire-- Bong Bong's Picnic Races
A COMPOSITE PICTURE showing a mountain bush fire last night, and a typical gathering of lookers-on BUSHFIRE SCENE last night in the direction of Minne-ha-ha Falls, a little north of Katoomba. DR. AND MRS. KATER'S PARTY, Dr. Kater, who is vice-president of the club, is near the centre, wearing a helmet…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Fire Menace Fresh Outbreaks Adelong Properties Adelong
THERE has been a recurrence of bush [?] and phone messages have been secured for assistance to [?] with fresh outbreaks at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Fire Fiend Trail of Desolation Throughout the Country
The recent bushfires have loft a widespread trail of ruin throughout New South Wales. Many buildings and miles of fencing have been…
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