Fires
EARLY on Saturday morning an unoccupied house, the property of Mr. Adam Weatherstone, situate on the rising ground at the rear of South Grafton, was burned to the ground. The fire was first noticed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1889
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Fires
EARLY on Saturday morning an unoccupied house, the property of Mr. Adam Weatherstone, situats on the rising ground at the rear of South Grafton, was burned to the ground. The fire was first noticed…
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AN INQUIRY into the canse of the late fire at South Grafton, resulting in the destruction of a house of Mr. Adam Weatherstone's, was held on Saturday last at the Homebush hotel, before Mr. A. L…
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AN INQUIRY into the canie of the late fire at South Grafton, resulting in the destruction of a house of Mr. Adam Weatherstone's, was held on Saturday last at the Homebush hotel, before Mr. A. L…
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THE fifth annual report of the Fire Brigades Board for the year ending December 31 last states that on comparing the gross total of the amounts held at risk by the insurance companies, a slight…
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THE fifth annual report of the Fire Brigades Board for the year ending December 31 last states that on comparing the gross total of the amounts held at risk by the insurance companies, a slight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. ESTABLISHED 1859. Tuesday Morning, 2Nd July, 1889. Fire Brigades Act
ANOTHER attempt is being made to amend the Fire Brigades Act, so as to remove the difficulties under which the extension of the Act to country towns has been surrounded. We, on former…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Tuesday Morning, 2Nd July, 1889. Fire Brigades Act
ANOTHER attempt is being made to amend the Fire Brigades Act, so as to remove tbe difficulties under which the extension of the Act to country towns has been surrounded. We, on former…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Fire in Melbourne. Damages Estimated at £200,000
A FEW minutes after 6 o'clock on Friday evening the largest fire that has ever occurred in Melbourne broke out in the central block of Collins-street, and devastated the magnificent drapery emporium of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Well-pumps as Fire Engines
IN many cases (says the London Globe) a substantially constructed set of well-pumps, even if fitted down a well 100 or 200 ft from the ground level, may be utilised as a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Extensive Fires in China. Insurrections and Riots
A FIRE played great havoc in the native city of Foochow on the night of November 11. Two thousand houses were totally destroyed. Two large fires raged at Canton recently. One destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire in Sydney. Sydney
A MOST disastrous fire occurred at the wharves at 3 o'clook this morning. The whole of the Union Steamship Coy. and Tasmanian Stores, capable of containing thirty thousand tons of produce, with…
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