Fire Engine and Water Supply. To the Editor of the Yass Courier
The Yass Courier · Saturday 7 January 1865 · page 3
SIR, -- Meeting with a paragraph in your paper calling attention to the necessity for a fire engine for this town, and in which was also stated the want of water for the use of the engine, I suggest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire Briggade. To the Headhitter of the Herrald
The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 February 1865 · page 4
MISTUR HEADHITTER,—Wot's becum of the Briggade? POLLY…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 April 1865 · page 2
HAD the disastrous fire of Tuesday last begun at the western end of the town instead of the eastern, where would it have ended? Fanned by the wind, and raging like a…
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The Yass Courier · Wednesday 26 April 1865 · page 4
THE most terrible conflagration that has occurred in Philadelphia since the great fire of July, 1850, took place this morning. Before proceeding to narrate the horrors of the calamity, we will describe…
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The Yass Courier · Saturday 29 April 1865 · page 3
THE playgoing public will regret to hear of the total destruction, on Monday evening, by fire, of one of the oldest, and not the least popular, places of theatrical amusement. Originally opened Nov…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Insurance.—defeat of the Government
The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 May 1865 · page 6
Government sustained a severe defeat on the 21st. Mr. Sheridan moved a resolution that it was expedient to extend the reduction of the fire duty—that is to 18d.—at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gheat Fire in York-street, Sydney
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 29 July 1865 · page 2
A terrible fire occurred on the 20th instant. The two large stores of Messrs. Frazer and Co., at the corner of York and Barrack-streets, were burnt down,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and Provincial. Goulburn Fire Brigade
The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 August 1865 · page 4
THE adjourned annual meeting of the Goulburn Volunteer Fire Brigade, was hold in the committee rooms of the Mechanics' Institute last Wednesday evening, Mr. wm. Davies in the chair, who having…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 26 August 1865 · page 8
I RECOLLECT such an occurrence, in a provincial town in tile United States, where not only was the playhouse crammed with people, but the edifice was built of wood. This fact,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Fire Brigade. To the Editor of the Herald and Chronicle
The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 November 1865 · page 4
SIR,—I was in hopes a more able pen than mine would take up the subject of our Goulburn Fire Brigade, but I find they have not. I ask you to assist me in this most important subject. Since my…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 December 1865 · page 2
THE great fire reported by telegraph was finally mastered, or rather burned itself out, late on Wednesday night, after having traversed Stamboul (Constantinople proper)…
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