Heat Brings Bushfires
Property at Bankstown and Parramatta was threatened by bush-fires yesterday, but local brigades were able to keep the flames in check…
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Towns Saved From Bushfires Eden and Boorowa Threatened Flames Rage Over 16 Stations in Young District; Many Ruined Men Fight All Night
Unofficial reports tell of fierce bushfires in the Young, Eden, and Wagga districts, where much valuable property was destroyed. An outbreak near Young, described as the worst for years, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Died in Yesterday's Heat Sydney Baked in Hot Winds Eighty Persons Receive Medical Treatment: Fire Brigades Kept Busy: Salad Lunches Country Suffers, Too Southerly in Evening Gave Citizens Brief Respite
Yesterday's maximum temperature in the city was 105.6 at 1.30 p.m. Many country centres also reported high temperatures. The intense heat was responsible for two deaths…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.--Two hundred men fought for three hours today to stem fires at Middleton and Currency Creek. They are thought…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ex-officer in Fatal Fire Englishman Trapped As Lamp Lights House MELBOURNE
BERNARD BLAGDEN, on ex-captain in the famous Black Watch regiment, was burned to death while trying to escape from a flaming house at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →They Play with Fire in Grave [?] Game of Life RAPTURES [?] Roses, But [?] AT...? How [?] Hours [?]
Every [?] ecstatically about Him, [?] hoping that the cardboa[?] THEY are [?] eye…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →New Light On Bungendore Mystery Alleged Companion of Fire Victim Gaol Inmate to Be Lined Up for Identification
GOULBURN, Saturday.--The transfer early this morning of two men from Albury Gaol to Goulburn Gaol is believed to have an important bearing on what has become known as the Bungendore bones mystery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensational Turn in Bones Case Man to Face Line-Up Test in Goulburn To-morrow Was Fire Victim Seen? Goulburn
MOST sensational development in the Bungendore bones mystery since the remains were established as those of Sydney James Morrison, of Bondi, is the arrival from Albury Gaol at Goulburn Reformatory to-day of a man who, die police…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Behind the Far West Smoke Screen New Guard and Ass. News After Glory and Story Fire-Stricken Settlers Exploited by Press and Politicians That Mystery Appeal for Men
IF the bush fires that have ravaged the West have done nothing else for Australia, they have at least set fire to the dirty curtain that so often obscures the scheming designs of pot-hunters, vote-hungry politicians and sensation-hungry newspapers. THAT so many obvious publicity and place seekers should endeavor to commercialise the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire at Newtown
An outbreak of fire took place in a building at the rear of 26 Wells-street, Newtown, on Saturday night. The flames had a firm hold before the alarm was given, and the premises,…
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A two [?] weather board [?]…
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The committee which is making preliminary arrangements for the national fire brigades carnival at Wagga next October has been informed that the carnival has been postponed…
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A fire was discovered this morning in the window of the premises of J. Hudson, tobacconist and hairdresser, in Casino Chambers. The brigade extinguished the fire quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Country News. Fire Destroys Dwelling. Walcha
A fire destroyed the home of waiter Margery, at Nowendoc. Eric Cross, in jumping from. a window of the burning building, broke a leg…
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A BUSHFIRE almost in the heart of Walhalla, the historic gold mining township, in the Gippsland hills, set…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hotel Burned. £10,000 Fire at Lismore. LISMORE
The Terminus Hotel, South Lismore, a twostoried wooden building, opposite the railway station, was destrojed by a fire which was first noticed at 1.45 this morning. The building…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BUSHFIRES. Young Men's Heroism. Burnt in Saving Homestead
Great heroism was shown by two young men during fire-fighting operations on Friday, near Rosewood, in the Albury district. One of them, Richard Snowden, 19, was so severely…
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In a temperature, of 113 degrees, nearly 50 men, consisting of station hands and volunteers from Trangle, fought a huge fire, which broke out…
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A Are at Lilyfield goods siding today destroyed two trucks of wheat. Firemen from Annandale, Rozelle and Leichhardt attended and…
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JUNEE, Monday.--The bush fires are viewed with the greatest seriousness locally, where a feeling is prevalent that the fires are not…
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