Fire Brigade
Forty-three residents have handed in their names to the pro tem. secretary for enrolment as members of the new Grenfell Fire Brigade…
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Fires & bushfires, 1899
431 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 22
Here & There Fire at Forbes
Mr. Thomas Sayers' cottage, near the cemetery, Forbes, and its contents were destroyed by fire on Saturday. The origin is unknown. The premises were insured in the…
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This evening the house of a young fellow named H. McQuirk, a digger residing here, was (it is suspected wilfully) set on fire, thereby destroying the most of his furniture, etc. The…
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A weather-board cottage occupied by Mrs. Matthews, was destroyed by fire tonight. The occupant, who is an aged woman, narrowly escaped a similar fate…
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One of the most ingenious as well as useful contrivances ever invented is a clock with attachments that not only wake a person at night, but also strike a light in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Blaze in Sydney. £26,000 Damages. Sydney
Early this morning a fire broke out in the premiss of John Connell and Co., Kent-street. The flames spread with great rapidity, and notwith standing the efforts of the brigades the large ware…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Big Sydney Blaze. Discovered in Kentstreet. an Early Morning Call
Within the past few months Sydney has bean afflicted with a recurrence of "big" fires. Another outbreak of such dimensions as to justify its classification…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Partition of China. Between Two Fires. London
An official announcement has been made that the Chinese Government refuses to extend the French jurisdiction in Shanghai. This decision, it is announced, has been…
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On Saturday night, about 10, the public school at Iionbridge was found to be on fire. The fire was extinguished before much damage was done. Last night an outhouse in…
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A fire is reported to have occurred on Thursday morning last at Mr. John West* lake's farm, Blackrock, resulting in the total destruction of two stacks of hay, containing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire Near Bourke. a Hotel Destroyed. Bourke
A conflagration occurred this afternoon, 15 miles from Bourke. The Stoney Point Hotel, occupied by R. H. Warmoll, being totally destroyed by…
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At about 4 p.m. on Saturday last a fire broke out at the residence of Mrs Buckley, on Church Hill. The flames quickly devoured everything within,…
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ON Wednesday, 4th instant, a very destructive fire occurred at Bournewood, by which Mr. Alfred Morris, son of Mr. Joseph Morris of this town…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Sen. LONDON
The Italian steamer Victoria took fire and was [?] on the voyage from Genoa to Buenos Ayres. Tho passengers and crew, numbering 423, were landed at Alicante,…
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A fire broad out on board the st[?]mer Tyrian on the voyage from Melbourne to sydney, and the vessel's safety was for a time imperilled. The cutbreak was caused by…
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An immense bush fire is raging about a mile outside Oberon, on the east side of Tarana road…
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A coal struck, containing some two thousand tons,is burning's Neutral Boy. It is supponed to have ouaght fire spontaneously…
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Yesterday the coronor, M. Sowler, held in inquest touching the origin of the fire whereby a cottage owned by Mrs. Thaller, at the Bridge Hotel, was…
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Alderman Cameron, the secretary of the Mudgee Fire Brigade's Board, wired to the Principal Under-Secretary urging the…
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[?] About midnight on Thursday the [?]eping inhabitants of Mudgee [?]ere within a minute or two of [?]eing rudely awakened by the…
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