Grafton Fire Brigades' Board
THE half-yearly meeting of the Board was held on Saturday last. Present:--Mr. G. H. Varley (Chairman), the Mayor, and Mr. T. Page (Secretary)…
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Fires & bushfires, 1900
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Grafton Fire Brigade Board
The half-yearly meeting was held on Saturday. Present, Mr. G. H. Varley (chairman) representing the Government, the Mayor (Borough of Grafton) and Mr. T. Page…
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BY the American mail arriving at Auckland on Tuesday particulars were received of the great fire at the Hoboken Dock, New York, of which graphic accounts were cabled to Sydney…
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Particulars received by the American mail steamer Moana of the great fire at Hoboken Dock, New York, show that there was a great pile of cotton on pier No. 3, occupied…
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A fire broke out on board the Atlantic liner Cymric during her voyage from Queenstown to New York. The crew gallantly battled with the flames…
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THE Governors were soon last week by a number of people about Baan Baa, on the railway line between Boggabri and Narrabri, about 150 miles north of the scene of their first murders…
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ON Tuesday night last a barn, the property of Mr. T. Lean, at Never Never, together with over 300 bushels maize and other property, was burned to the ground. Until…
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THAT seven persons, three of them at the age of man and womanhood, should have been burnt to death in a single storey cottage, with vacant space all round and the usual means of egress, is the most surprising…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Aboriginal Murderers. the Outlaws Fire on a House. a Sensational Confession. Jimmy Governor's Programme. Sydney
THE INSPECTOR-General of Police has received a wire from Mudgee to the effect that the Governors fired about 10 shots at Horan's house at Carramin, near Blackville, at seven o'clock on…
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[?] years ago, when twenty-two men were lost through the inburst of water into the workings, no tale of death has so profoundly affected the Ballarat…
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The Reason has arrived when bush fires are liable to occur, thongh in many districts this year there is very little grass left from the winter to burn. Immense damage frequently arises from bush…
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SIR,—The fire prevention and extinguishing Bill now before Parliament—the first reading of which has been carried—provides for tho whole expense being borne conjointly by the Government, the fire…
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It is understood the Government will re-introduce the Fire Brigades Bill at an early date…
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ANOTHER fire occurred in this district on Sunday morning last, when an old barn containing a quantity of hay, also a building close by, which was used as a provisional…
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Absolutely undisturbed by an outside influence—though the fact that a large company of British soldiers, in this case a regiment of bushmen from distant Australia,…
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A country yokel had for some time been paying attention to one of the village maidens, but could find no way to put his meaning into words…
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THE most serious bush fire in the Albury district for many years broke out on Wallendool station, 40 miles north of the Murray, on Saturday. During Saturday…
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A FIRE in the building at the corner of Greenwich and Warren streets, occupied by Tarrant and Company, wholesale druggists and chemists (telegraphs the New York correspondent of the…
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