New Fire Extinguisher
A successful test of a new fire preventer and extinguisher was made on board the hulk Tamar in Kerosene Bay. The inventor is Dr. Harker, who, with Captain…
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Fires & bushfires, 1907
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Human Fire Resisters Extraordinary
Dr. Decrequy tells us that in the course of some spiritualistic seances at the Villa Caramen, in Algiers, by which the medium was a woman called Bincente Garcia, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest Telegrams. Fire in the City. Sydney, Saturday Night
A destructive fire occurred this morning in a four-storey buiding in George-street, between King and Market-streets. The top floors were…
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A meeting is to be held on Thursday night to consider the advisability of establishing a fire brigade in Macloan. The need of such an organisation has been frequently so…
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Meetings were convened on Thursday night to discuss the advisability of establishing a fire brigade and erecting baths. When the former meeting opened there was but a small…
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At the hour (8 o'clock) advertised for holding the meeting on Thursday night, to consider the advisability of forming a fire brigade, there was but a small…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grafton Volunteer Fire Brigade
The monthly meeting of the Brigade was held at the station on Thursday evening, Captain Klmpton presiding. Correspondence was read from G. T. Breardhurst,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bush Fires
Both municipal and shire councils are formally charged with "the prevention or mitigation of bush fires (including the organisation of bush fire brigades)." This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Belfast Riots. Troops Fire on the Crowd
LONDON. Tuesday.—The Riot Act was read. The throwing of stones and bottles by the mob, the use of the baton by the police, charges with bayonets, and rifle…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dynamite Factory on Fire. London
A series of explosions at a dynamite factory at Domitz, Germany, set fire to the buildings, and compelled the authorities to order the evacuation of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Fire Brigade
Mr. John M'Farlane, M.P., who recently socured a grant of £600 for the erection of a now Fire Brigade station for Grafton, has forwarded to the local brigade plans…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire in Sydney
A three-storey building, situated on the castern side of Sussex-street, between King and Erskine streets, Sydney, was gutted by fire at a late hour on Monday night. The premises, No. 102…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New Fire Station
The sum of £600 being promised by the Department for the cr[?]tion of a new Fire Station at Grafton, on the site at the Market Square, plans for a su[?] building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Fire in Japan. London
Advices from Tokio (Japan) state that a fire is raging at Hakodate, where three-fourths of the town has been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]16 Fire in Sussex-street. Sydney, Saturday Night
A disastrous fire occurred at the premises of Messrs. Prescott, Limited, the well known produce mardhants, in Sussex street,early this morning. The…
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On Saturday morning a fire broke out in the warchouse of Prescott Gompany, Ltd., Sussex-street, and was not extinguished until much of the produce with which the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ship on Fire. Sydney
A fire broke out last evening in the fore-part of the British ship Ladye Doris at Newcastle. The flames were got wider in an hour and a half, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Cangal
Mr. Campbell suffered a severe loss last—week through fire. He had 52 hides, three large casks tallow, hair and horns awaiting arrival of team to ship to Copmanhurst. The contents were in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Volunteer Fire Brigade
The monthly meeting of the Brigade was held at the Fire Station on Thursday evening, Captain. F. Kimpton in the chair. Correspondence was read from Dubbo, submitting the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fatal Hotel Fire. London
An hotel, near Tacoma, Washington State, was destroyed by fire and 15 of the inmates incinerated…
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