Fire Brigades' Conference. Sydney
At a conference attended by delegates from 75 fire brigades, held at Wagga Wagga yesterday, a motion was carried favoring the passage through…
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Broken Hill & the Far West · Fires & bushfires
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At a conference attended by delegates from 75 fire brigades, held at Wagga Wagga yesterday, a motion was carried favoring the passage through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An alram of fire was given at 8.35 this morning from Cummins-street, where a three-roomed stone house, owned and occupied by Mr. Charles A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Broken Hill Fire Station is soon to have an improved curricle fire escape ladder added to its fire-fighting and life-saving appliances. The board decided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The great fire at Kempsey (an important township on the Macleay River) reported in the Third Edition of yesterday's "Miner," which destroyed, half…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A disastrous fire occurred to-day at Kempsey, a township on the Macleay River, about 280 miles north-east of Sydney. Half the township, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Fire Brigade received a call this afternoon to a fire which broke out in a 4-roomed wood-and-iron house on the Silvert[?]n-road, near the Excelsior…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The biggest fire that has occurred at Ballarat for 40 years broke out early this morning in Dawson and Sons ironmongery establishment in Sturt-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The promises of Sims and Co., coopers, of Hindmarsh, were destroyed by fire this morning. It is supposed that during the "firing" process the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →One of the largest conflagrations ever seen in Adelaide broke out at 6 o'clock this morning in the large and heavily stocked premises of Harrold,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fire Brigade received a call to a fire in Crystal-street this afternoon. The blaze broke out in a humpy owned by Mrs M'Rao and occupied by one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The liabilities of the insurance compunies in connection with the fire at Harrold. Colton, and Co.'s warehouse in Currie-street yesterday amount to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is not much of a compliment to those in Government power to have to say that men who spend their lives in studying the best means and ways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire in Wood-street, Cheapside, London, yesterday destroyed several warehouses containing Manchester goods, silks, and woollens valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mrs. Brewer, the victim of the fire at St. Kilda this morning, was the mother of J. E. Brewer, the well-known horseman, who is now in England. She…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Commissioner of Police received a telegram on Friday from Eudunda stating that Richards's sheepyard on the Australian Plain had been set on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire Brigade had a particularly busy time last night and this morning, when no less than three calls were responded to. The first alarm was given…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush fires are raging in the Charleville district. Much fencing has been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The inquest on the recent fire of Messrs. Harrold, Calton, and Co.'s warehouse in Currie-street will be held on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A telegram from Charleville states that the Coongoola station and 50,000 acres of grass have been destroyed by fire, The fire is still raging, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All efforts to subdue the bush tires raging in the Charleville district have been unavailing. All selections on the west side of the river have been…
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