The Fire at Rankin's Bridge
Thomas Wilson, the man who was brought up at the Bathurst Police Court last Thursday, and remanded on a charge of setting fire to Ranken's Bridge on November 30,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1899
431 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 20 of 22
Destructive Fire in Victoria. Melbourne
There was a big fire at Nathalia (Vic.) on Saturday afternoon, which did damage to the extent of £10,000. A large number of business places, including the local Herald…
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Yesterday morning a report was mode to the Fire Brigade that a fire had broken out in Macquarie Park, and Captain Butcher with a few men hastened to the spot, but…
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Captain Butcher received two call-outs on Tuesday, but, happily, in neither instance was there any damage done. The first call wan to Machattic Paik, and the second, about…
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In our country news column will be found a full account of tho damage wrought by the' fire in Warren last Thursday. Fully 200 men fought the fiendish element with great…
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At the same instant a strange sobbing cry broke upon the night. It might have come from Pamela as she sank down upon the floor, or it might have been only…
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Last, week two timber-getters at Ringwood, an out station on Murrumbogie, whilst boiling their billy, allowed the fire to get away from them. It burned their tent, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WARREN. (From the Herald.)THE Great Fire
The business places utterly destroyed by the fire last Thursday, which originated in the stables of Bibb’s Exchange Hotel, are :— The Commercial Bank. Sparkes’ hotel. Bibb’s…
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Further details of recent severe fighting which took place at the Modder Rover state that the military staff consider that the British army never faced…
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A temperance lecturer in New Zealand was arrested on Tuesday night for the nonpayment of coats in an hotel case. A brewer paid the costs, and the temperance advocate…
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"For Heaven's sake, turn I" shouted Geof, aa into his eyes, came a look of horror. Eager as be was for vengeance, be did not wish to see his enemy buried alive…
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ANOTHER fire scare was raised on Saturday night, when smoke and flames were noticed rising from the piles of wood in John Black and Sons' mill…
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THE fire which occurred at Warren on Friday effected much greater destruction than was at first supposed although it was at one time thought…
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THE recent fires—certainly they were not very disastrous—causes the ARGUS to once again renew the agitation for the establishment of a Fire Brigade to…
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She shrank from him, putting out her hands in a trembling way, as if some support were falling her. 'Do you know,' he went on, 'what has…
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The weather still continues very dry and warm with plenty of wind, dust, and smoke. There have been several bush fires Blasted in this district during the last few days, but…
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JU[?] as if the beat and wind of Saturday were not sufficient to unpleasantly disturb the community's temper, it came in for another shock at night. At about 8.30 o'clock, aa alarm was…
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THE recent fires have served to remind residents of the time when it possessed a fire brigade, with engine, torchlight parades, coloured fires, and other glaring glory. Some…
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He did not answer, but eat gazing straight ahead, a hard and bitter look in his eyes. The shame and pain of this silence drove the colour from Pamela's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Narrow Escape from Fatal Fire. A Church Street Sensation
Between half past ten and 11 p.m. on Saturday night Church Street was the scene of a narrow escape from a fire, which would in…
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