The Fire Brigade. Its Financial Position
A PUBLIC meeting of ratepayers and citizens was held in the Town Hall last night, to take into consideration the present financial positions of the Fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1893
203 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 11
The North Fire
SENIOR-CONSTABLE NOLAN has been engaged all day in inquiries concerning the fire in Brazill-street on Monday afternoon, which resulted in…
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A STANDPIPE has recently been erected at the rear of the Town Hail tor sup plying the corporation watercarts and other purposes. At the instance of…
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Two small fires occurred this morning. The first broke out about 4 a. m. in a one-roomed wood and iron building in Cummins-street, West Broken Hill,…
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Two small fires occurred this morning. The first broke out about 4 a.m. in a one-roomed wood and iron building in Cummins-street, West Broken Hill,…
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MESSRS. BOAN BROS., drapers, have had a standpipe fitted up at the rear of their premises, in Argent-street, for the protection of their extensive stock…
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MESSRS. BOAN BROS., drapers, have had a standpipe fitted up at the rear of their premises in Argent-street, for the protection of their extensive stock…
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WHATEVER hope there ever was of getting the Government to provide fire plugs in Broken Hill appears now to have faded; and it is not likely to…
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A TRIAL was made this afternoon, by the Fire Brigade officers, of the standpipe which Messrs. Boan Bros. recently had erected at the rear of…
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A 2-INCH meter having been provided for the standpipe at the rear of the Town Hall, another trial of its utility in case of fire was…
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A TRIAL was made this afternoon, by the Fire Brigade officers, of the standpipe which Messrs. Boan Bros. recently had erected at the rear of…
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A MEETING of fire insurance agents was held at Stephens' Auction Mart this afternoon to appoint three representatives on the new fire brigade…
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AN inquest into the fire which occurred at West Broken Hill on the 6th instant was held at the courthouse this morning, before Mr. Barnett,…
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A FIRE occurred in Crystal-street south at about 9.30 o'clock this morning, whereby two buildings, occupied as a boarding-house by Joseph Sloss, were…
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AS several private individuals have recently erected standpipes for use in case of fire, it may be as well to point out that it is necessary…
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THE following circular has been issued by the Chief Engineer of Water Supply in Victoria to town water supply trusts and other bodies administering urban…
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A cable message from New York reports an extensive and destructive fire in Beston, resulting in loss of life. A large block of buildings was entirely…
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THE confiagration in Sloss' boardinghouse in Crystal-street on. Saturday morning was speedily succeeded by another of a similar character on…
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THE Adelaide city coroner, Dr. Whittell, has held an inquest at Woodville into the cause of the fire that occurred at the house of Mr. D…
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THE first meeting of the Fire Brigade Board was held at the Town Hall last evening. There were present—The Mayor (Aldermen Martin), Aldermen…
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