Destructive Fire
A most destructive causing an immense amount of damage, and creating in the minds of the inhabitants both suspicion and fear, as, like two previous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1871
32 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Destructive Fire Between York and George Streets
HARDLY had the first of the Rifle Volunteers, after a heavy dayâs exercise in martial tactics on the chief headlands of the harbour, and of the spectators who had gone to view the batteries and try…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Snake Story From Victoria. the War. Parts Under Fire
FROM the Weekly Times we extract the following story of a snake, a la Baron Munchausen, written by a correspondent styling himself "Hyluse : " -- A LETTER received from Paris says : -- "Since the Prussians have added to the bombardment of the east forts that of the south they have sent us daily about 20,000 shells, of which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Bush-fires at Mount Gambier
FORTUNATELY, it is very seldom that the district is swept by bush-fires so unmanageable and so destructive as those that devastated it so extensively on Tuesday last. On that day, in addition to the very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Fire-engines. To the Editor of the Penny Post
SIR,âI have been given to understand that there is a requisition now being got up by the people of Goulburn, requesting the Mayor to call a meeting respecting the removal and repair of the…
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ON Monday evening last a public meeting was held at the municipal council chamber for the purpose of devising means for placing the fire-engines in future management. About twenty persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire at the Victorian Meat-preserving Company's Works
THE fire which occurred at the Victorian Meat-Preserving Company's works on Wednesday evening has not been of, so disastrous a nature as was at first believed. The nature…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Fire at the Victoria\ Meat-preserving Works. (From the Melbourne Argus)
A VERY destructive conflagration occurred On Wednesday night at the works of the Victoria Meat-preserving Company, Stony Creek. The fire broke half-past 8 oâclock, ill the centre portion of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire-engines
THE FIRE-ENGINES.—The adjourned public meeting called for the purpose of considering the best means of maintaining the efficiency of the fire-engines was to have been hold at the council chamber on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Fire-engines
THE adjourned meeting for the purpose of considering the best to be done respecting the fire-engines was held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday evening. The attendance was indeed very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire-engines
ON Wednesday evening the adjourned mooting in connection with the fire-engines was bold in the council chamber, at which there were about twenty persons present…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire and Loss of Three Lives
A fire of a rapidly destructive character, which, in addition to destroying a vast quantity of property, was attended with fatal results to three children of the ages of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Grand Fenian Blaze in New York
THE account given by the New York Herald of the late demonstration of sympathy with the Fenian martyrs in that city on the 9th inst., must be very gratifying to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of Life by Jumping Out of a Window at a Fire
The loss of several lives has resulted from a fire which took place on Sunday night at Chapel-street, Edgware-road. The house was occupied by a Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire-engines Exchanging Ownership. To the Editor of the Penny Post
SIR,âIn your report of the Councilâs proceedings held last Thursday you include business relative to the above, which the Council had no right to discuss. It was not on the âsummonsâ for that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Fire at Sandhurst. (From the Bewdigo Evening News, August 25)
THE most destructive, if not the largest, fire ever yet seen on Sandhurst, occurred this morning, and speedily resulted in the demolition of the Beehive-buildings in Pall Mall, and the destruction of their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water for Extinguishing Fire. to the Editor
Sir,— As the government are putting guttering round the court-house to carry off the water there-from, I would suggest that such water be conserved for the use of the city in case of fire. It would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire at Melbourne
ONE of the largest conflagrations which has occurred in Melbourne for years raged on Monday evening in the precincts of the eastern markets. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Extinction of Fire by Gas
A Launceston journal directs attention to the circumstance that the extinction of fire by gas is probably about to be carried out in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire
Shortly before four o’clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in the stable at the back of Hayes’s Commercial Hotel. The people in the town were aroused by the report of a pistol, and…
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