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21 articles are tagged with Bushfires. (Note: A search of the full text of articles for Bushfires finds 2042 articles)

  • ALL THAT REMAINS OF THE TOWNSHIP. [ tagged as bushfires Noojee ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 16 February 1926, page 9
    News ILLUSTRATED 54 words

    Owing to the efforts of residents, women and children of Noojee found safety in the hotel, which was the only building in the township to escape the flames. It may be noticed that the windows of the building were broken by the [?] heat of the fire. ...
  • SOME OF THE FIRE- FIGHTERS. [ tagged as bushfires Noojee ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 16 February 1926, page 9
    News ILLUSTRATED 38 words

    Men who were out all Sunday night fighting to save the township of Ncoj[?]e. Their drawn and faces told of great effort and intense suffering. One man is temporarilly blind. ...
  • DESTRUCTION OF NOOJEE TOWNSHIP, GIPPSLAND. [ tagged as bushfires Noojee ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 16 February 1926, page 9
    News ILLUSTRATED 34 words

    A photograph of the main street of Noojee township taken yesterday. Only blackened rains, amid hurnt trees, romain, where a day or two ago there was a flourishing settlement. ...
  • THE RAILWAY STATION. [ tagged as bushfires Noojee Noojee railway station ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 16 February 1926, page 9
    News ILLUSTRATED 27 words

    Nothing remains of tht [?] township of Noojee, Gippsland, except the hotel. The flames destroyed even the railway station and trucks in the siding. ...
  • 22 LIVES LOST. WARBURTON TRAGEDY. CHILDREN'S AWFUL PLIGHT. HEARTBREAKING SCENES. TIMBER MILLS DESTROYED. [ tagged as 1926 bushfires Big Pat's Creek bushfires Gilderoy LRRSA Noojee Powelltown sawmilling timber Warburton ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 16 February 1926, page 11
    News ILLUSTRATED 22937 words

    WARBURTON, Monday —With the return of fire-fighters and search parties to the township at midday to-day, stories of appalling losses of life were told from the ...
  • FIRES IN THE COUNTRY. LARGE AREA SWEPT. RUBICON MILLS DESTROYED. Workers' Homes Burnt. [ tagged as bushfires Kawarren LRRSA Rubicon sawmilling timber Watson and Facey ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 21 December 1925, page 20
    News 1585 words

    RUBICON, Sunday.—A fire which broke out in the Rubicon forest on Friday has been the couse of immense damage in the distret. It is stated that the State ...
  • FIRES SUBSIDING. £35,000 DAMAGE AT YALLOURN WALHALLA AND ERICA SAFE. ALL MISSING MEN TRACED. GREAT RESPONSE TO RELIEF APPEAL. [ tagged as bushfires LRRSA Noojee Warburton ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 19 February 1926, page 11
    News 17785 words

    The men who had been reported as missing have been found. There are now no names on the missing list. The dead total 31. Working throughout Wednesday night, 300 men at the site of the State Electricity Commission's undertaking at Yallourn extinguished a ...
  • MILLING AT NOOJEE. Repair of Timber Tramway Sought. [ tagged as 1926 bushfires bushfires LRRSA Noojee sawmilling timber Tooronga ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 16 October 1928, page 18
    News 183 words

    Timber millers and representatives of the Noojee Progress Association waited upon the Minister for Forests (Mr. Beckett) yesterday to ask that action be taken to repair the timber tramway from Noojee ...
  • BUSH FIRES DISASTER DEAD AND MISSING TOTAL 33. WARBURTON DISTRICT LOSSES. RELIEF MEASURES BEING ORGANISED. SUFFERINGS OF THE HOMELESS. [ tagged as 1926 bushfires bushfires Gilderoy LRRSA Noojee Powelltown Warburton Worlley's sawmill ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 17 February 1926, page 21
    News ILLUSTRATED 17510 words

    Bush fires are still burning in various parts of Victoria, and further loss of life has been reported, the total dead and missing now being 33. A man previously reported missing at Nayook was found burned to death. ...
  • BLACK MONDAY. BUSH FIRES. [ tagged as Black Monday Bushfires ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 1 March 1865, page 7
    News 3336 words

    The reports already to hand provs that the destruction of property in the hot wind and fires of Monday last, and the preceding days, has been very great. Monday will be marked ...
  • BUSH FIRES. (FROM THE BALLARAT STAR FEB. 25.) [ tagged as American Saw Mill Bullarook bushfires LRRSA sawmilling ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 26 February 1862, page 7
    News 1821 words

    In Monday's Star we stated some particulars [?]espeeting the bush-fire at Bullarook that de[?]troyed the mills of messrs. Graves and Fraser. we now learn that the mill was insured in the ...
  • Fire at Hepburn Springs. [ tagged as bushfires Hepburn Springs ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 4 January 1919, page 16
    News 91 words

    DAYLESFORD. Friday.—A bush fire broke out at the rear of Hepburn Springs on New Year's Day. Residents and Visitors had hard work in [?] the flames. It ...
  • AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) [ tagged as Bushfires Byaduk Harman ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 27 February 1890, page 8
    News 514 words

    BYADUCK, FEB. 24.—The weather is now much cooler, the evenings especially being quite chilly. yesterday morning a bush fire broke out in the viclnity of Condah Swamp, and raged flerc[?]ly ...
  • BUSH FIRES. COTTAGES BURNT. [ tagged as Belgrave bushfires Emerald ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 23 December 1908, page 5
    News 328 words

    GEMBROOK, Tuesday.—A bush fire here yesterday did much damage, Mr. Mortomore's house, adjoining the cemetery, was burnt to the ground. The timber tramway ...
  • SIX MORE PERISH IN FIRES GRAVE FEARS FOR OTHERS TERRIBLE TOLL OVER WIDE AREA TOWNSHIPS WIPED OUT WARRANDYTE DEVASTATED BY OUR SPECIAL REPORTERS [ tagged as Black Friday bushfires bushfire fatalities bushfires ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 14 January 1939, page 1
    News ILLUSTRATED 1069 words

    Breaking out afresh over an area extending throughout the mountains and from one end of the State to the other, shocking bush fires have taken further terrible toll of life and property. At least six more people have been ...
  • TOTAL OF £18,004 THE ARGUS FUND £9,075 IN DAY [ tagged as Black Friday bushfires bushfire relief fund bushfires ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 14 January 1939, page 1
    News 302 words

    Victoria's response to the appeal made on behalf of the who have suffered in the most disastrous bush fires ...
  • KINGLAKE IN PATH Homes Lost [ tagged as Black Friday bushfires Kinglake - bushfire Lands Department ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 14 January 1939, page 2
    News 296 words

    WHITTLESEA, Friday.— Fires which have been burning in the timber country in the Kinglake district have revived with ...
  • "BLACK THURSDAY" IN THE CAPE OTWAY FOREST. (From the Geelong Advertiser, yesterday.) [ tagged as Black Thursday bushfires bushfires ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Thursday 13 February 1851, page 2
    News 548 words

    Terrific as was the visitation of the bush fires in the neighbourhood of Geelong, the phenomena displayed in the enormous forests of the Cape Otway coast, extenging from near the Barwon ...
  • DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. [ tagged as Black Thursday bushfires bushfires bushfires - Portland ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 7 February 1851, page 2
    News 3002 words

    DRUNKARDS LAST.—Elizabeth Bassett, John Quinn, Fosset Twenty man, William Brown William King, and Henry Shinthorn, were yesterday fined fire shillings each for drunkenness. ...
  • BUSH FIRES—MOUNT MACEDON. To the Editor of the Argus. [ tagged as Black Thursday bushfires bushfires bushfires - Mount Macedon ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 12 February 1851, page 2
    News 784 words

    SIR,—I write in the midst of desolation, Thursday morning was ushered in with a f[?]erce hot wind, which, as the day advanced, grew stronger and stronger. For three weeks bush ...
  • CUMBERLAND VALLEY. NOBLE TREES THREATENED. SAWMILLING AND BUSH FIRES. [ tagged as Beckett Mr - Minister for Forests bushfires bushfires - sawmilling Cumberland Valley Forest comission Forests Commission LRRSA Minister for Forests sawmilling ]

    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 7 November 1928, page 7
    News 869 words

    In the wonderful Cumberland Valley, now threatened with injury by the decision of the Minister for Forests (Mr. Beckett) to open up the area for ...


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