An Impecunious Fire Brigade. Sydney
While a house was burning at Bowral yesterday the local fire brigade was powerless to do anything to save it. Owing to the lack of funds no horses…
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Fires & bushfires, 1907
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Fire in Japan. London
The losses through the great fire which occurred at Hakodate, a Japanese seaport town, during the week amount to £3,000,000. There are also…
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Bush fires are raging in the scuthwest of the State. Great damage is being caused all round the Roman and St. George districts…
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Damage to the extent of about £2000 has been done by a fire which c[?]rred to-day at Prescott's (produce merchants), Sussex-street. The stock…
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At Newcastle yesterday a fire broke out in the f[?] of the British ship Lady [?]. Doris. The fire was got under quickly, before any considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Setting Fire to a House. Accused Found Not Guilty. On the Ground of Insanity. Perth
At the Criminal Court yesterday the hearing of the charge of arson against J. H. Edols, who recently set fire to the house in which he lived at West…
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The damage caused by the fire which broke out on the forepeak of the British ship Lady E. Doris on Tuesday, whilst the ship was in port at…
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The shops occupied by E. A. Catton, general dealer, and H. Rosengarten, jeweller, in Hindley street, were gutted by fire last, night, involving a loss…
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The timber fires at Antwerp are still raging. Damage to the extent of several million franes has been done. Two streets are threatened by the [?]re…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Pentridge. Melbourne
A fire occurred at P[?]tridge yesterday and destroyed several tons of flax and the engine-house…
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Correspondence is still passing between the Chief Secretary (the Hon. A. A. Kirkpatrick) and the Fire Brig[?]de Board of Adelaide, on the question…
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A Building in James-street, owned by Mr. S. W. Copley, and containing eight secondhand motor omnibuses, was destroyed by fire early this,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires in Queensland. Caus[?] Gr[?]t Destruction. Brisbane
At Charleville a large bush fire is raging; at Burinda station. Augathella and other places the grass is burning; and at St. George the fires…
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A fire occurred at Murwillumbah, Tweed River, last night. Fifty-nine buildings were de[?]troyed including the Bank of New South Wales,…
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A fire of considerable dimensions occuried to Brisbane on Sunday. Eight shops were destroyed. Four of these were gutted throughout, the other four…
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Following the disastrous conflagration at Murwillumbah on Sunday night, a fire last night ocourred and did considerable' damage at Bangalow,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire. Murwillumbah Devastated. Fifty-nine Buildings Burnt. Two Hundred Homeless. £100,000 Damage. Court and Police Records Destroyed. Drunken Man's Peril. a Mother and Her Babe. Sydney
Particulars of the fire which (as briefly reported in the Third Edition of y[?]day's "Minter") swept through the little town of Murwillumbah on…
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At Charleville a large bush fire is raging; at Burinda station, Augathella; and other places the grass is burning; and at St. George the fires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Murwillumbah Fire. Further Particulars. The Town a Mass of Ruins. Disgraceful Scenes. Sympathy from the Federal House. Sydney
The Lord Mayor has opened a relief fund on behalf of the sufferers in the disastrous fire which occurred at Murwillumbah, a township on the Tweed…
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The State Premier, Mr. Carruthers, has forwarded £500 to the Mayor of Murwillumbah for the relief of the Bufferers by the recent disastrous and…
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