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  2. FLYING FOR THEIR LIVES.

    Few people, unless they have encountered a bush fire, can comprehend the danger or the terrible rapidity with which the fire travels. Mr. Alb. ...

    Article : 228 words
  3. BUSH FIRES.

    This morning we are in a position to present further reports supplied by our special reporters and correspondents in the various districts affected by the ...

    Article : 185 words
  4. INTERCOLONIAL.

    At an early hour this morning a fire was. discovered on the premises ' of Moss, White, and Co., tobacconists, in Abeckett-street. The fire brigade, ...

    Article : 56 words
  5. A CITY BOY'S STORY.

    Master Richard Wells, of Brisbane-street, has had a lively experience in the bush fires in his endeavour to reach his father's farm in the Lilydale ...

    Article : 399 words
  6. QUEENSLAND.

    The Government is taking steps to throw open land far farms on which artesian water has been struck. ...

    Article : 21 words
  7. PAYMENT OF RATES.

    Mrs. Yates, ex-Lady Mayor of One- hunga, has been sued by the Borough Council for payment of rates, and judgment has been given against her. ...

    Article : 31 words
  8. MAGELLAN STRAITS.

    In consequence of the accident to the R.M.S. Matura, the New Zealand Shipping Company has prohibited its vessels going through the Magellan ...

    Article : 35 words
  9. DAMAGE AT RAILTON.

    During the course of an interview Mr. T. Midgley supplied some information regarding the fire In this district. "Last Wednesday," he stated, "the fire ...

    Article : 490 words
  10. RELIEF OF THE SUFFERERS.

    Since the last announcement was made in reference to the local bush fire relief fund a number of contributions have been handed in, swelling it ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. DEEDS OF HEROISM.

    There are many other sufferers in the same district, but after an almost superhuman struggle, all the, other homesteads were saved, but a long list ...

    Article : 112 words
  12. A SHOCKING CRIME.

    A terrible crime was committed this morning at the Fullarton estate. A man named Elver Greenough Fry aged 35, shot his wife and three children, ...

    Article : 402 words
  13. OTHER FIRES.

    While this conflagration was burning on its course, other fires, some of less, and others of a greater destructiveness, were raging at Sister's Creek and the ...

    Article : 210 words
  14. DOWN THE WEST TAMAR.

    Bush fires have been raging in this district for several days, and those that had not got their grain carted made all haste to get it into stack or ...

    Article : 540 words
  15. GLEN DHU OUTBREAK.

    At the meeting of the Fire Brigade Board yesterday, a report was submitted, referring to the outbreak at the rear of the Roman Catholic Cemetery. ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. A CHANGE OF WIND.

    Up to the present it will not be possible to give even an approximate guess at the number of losers, and of the amount of their losses. As I write, ...

    Article : 192 words
  17. SHEFFIELD DISTRICT.

    Though the worst of the fires appears to have visited Paradise, Promised Land, and Kentish, still there is some danger of a fresh outbreak should the ...

    Article : 1,188 words
  18. DESTRUCTIVE AND APPALLING FIRES.

    One of the most destructive and appalling fires that has ever occurred in our fair little island, swept over a large portion of the country lying between ...

    Article : 345 words
  19. CONSTABLE CARR INTERVIEWED.

    Constable Carr, who has returned from an exhaustive trip through Paradise, Promised Land, and West Kentish, states that everything is quiet. ...

    Article : 536 words
  20. WEATHER IN AUSTRALIA.

    The heat wave settled down on Melbourne again to-day, and the thermometer registered up to 103 in the shade. ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. LILYDALE DISTRICT.

    The bush fires are still raging all round the township. A great (paint of the Underwood district is aflame, and, amongst others, ...

    Article : 242 words
  22. MACKAY, QUEENSLAND,

    A terrible cyclone broke over here on Saturday. A strong gale was blowing some time, and the barometer steadily fell in the morning to 29.7. ...

    Article : 170 words
  23. BUILDINGS AND FENCES DESTROYED.

    Up to last Saturday we had escaped the bush: fires, which have been prevalent and disastrous throughout the colony. On that day, however. owing ...

    Article : 120 words
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