Movable Fire Station
ALREADY practical measures have been set on foot in London for the better protection of the city from fire; and a movable fire stationâa novel contrivanceâwill be placed in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1879
40 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 2
Extraordinary Burglary and Fire
THE Sandhurst correspondent writes to the Telegraph (Melbourne) that on Monday morning, about- 4 o’clock, a four-roomed weatherboard cottage, belonging to Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For Prevention of Fires. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post
SIR,âWill you please bring to the authoritiesâ notice that they ought to forbid the fireworks to burn in the town, as the naughty and unprincipled ones throw burning…
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Early on Wednesday morning (says the Chronicle of May 28) the engine-driver working the pneumatic engine of the Long Tunnel Company observed…
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IT appears from a private telegram received in Melbourne on Tuesday that the loss by the fire which occured in Wellington on Sunday night will amount to nearly £80,000…
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AN inquest was held on Wednesday at the dwelling-house of Jacob Miller, Back Creek, about two miles from Young, touching the origin of a lire which burned his shed and stacks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire at Orenburg in Russia
A TELEGRAM from the Governor of Orenburg to the minister of the interior, dated Orenburg, the 28th April, 11.50 p.m., reports that a great fire had been raging in that town…
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ON the 17th art., a brief message concerning this disastrons fire was telegraphed. We have now fuller particulars from the New Zealand papers…
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THE adjourned annual meeting of the Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at the Municipal Chambers yesterday evening. In the absence of the superintendent, Mr. R. Fletcher,…
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ON Wednesday evening an adjourned meeting of the Volunteer Fire- Brigade was held in the municipal chamber. The chair was taken by Mr. R. Fletcher, captain of No. 1 engine…
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AN inquest was commenced on Thursday at a threshing shed belonging to William Whybrow at Little Wombat, by the coroner and a jury of five, as to the origin of a fire which destroyed…
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SHORTLY after two a.m. on Monday, the 8th inst, a most disastrous fire occured at Dunedin in a block of buildings known as the Ostagon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Fire at Sarajevo
A PART of the city of Serajevo has peen destroyed by fire. The whole of the commercial quarterâthe centre of the capital, including the splendid Servian church, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fatal Fire in Dunedin
Referring to the sad death of Mr. Robert Wilson, who perished with most of his family in the Dunedin fire, the Otago Daily Times gives the following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in the Government Printing Office
At about half-past 8 o’clock yesterday morning a fire of a rather serious character broke out in the Government Printing Office, at the corner of Bent and Phillip streets. The signs of the…
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GRAFTON, Monday.âA fire of some magnitude broke out yesterday (Sunday) morning about two oâclock, on the premises of S. Watson, storekeeper. At present the affair…
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A LARGE fire occured at Grenfell on Saturday night. It commenced at 9.45 in the upper story of the Thistle Hotel, and in it short time a large portion of the town was in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire at Grenfell. GRENFELL, Sunday Nov. 30
A destructive fire took place last night, Saturday. It commenced about a quarter to ten o’clock in the upper storey of the Thistle Hotel, and in about ten minutes…
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ON Saturday evening last, about half-past nine, the dread cry of "fire!" notified to the inhabitants of Grenfell, that the event so long predicted was likely to be verified, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nominations for Fire Brigade Races
THE following nominations vere declared last night at O’Rourke’s Criterion Hotel: BOXING DAY HANDICAP. Mr. D. Hughes’ br g Brigham, aged…
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