The Fire Brigade
THE Brigade attended the obsequies of 1885, and welcomed the advent of its successor by a torch light procession on Thursday night. The most pleasing part of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1886
83 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 5
Large Fire in Melbourne
A very large fire broke out (says a Melbourne telegram of Wednesday) this evening in the stores rented by the firm known as the Melbourne Storage Company, and other…
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THE report of the select committed on the fire-brigade system of the colony proven how far Victoria has lagged behind her neighbours and the rest of the world in…
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A singular tragedy took place at Tumberumba at about 1 o'clock on Friday morning. Some 50 or 60 of the townspeople were seeing the old year out and the new year in, and after having visited the various…
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A STATEMENT of accounts in regard to the demonstration on New Year's Eve has been drawn out. The brigade contributed £3 towards the expenses, and the citizens £12 is 6d. The expenditure…
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AT about a quarter to 10 o' clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out in Pitt-street in a large block of buildings belonging to Mr. John Robertson, coachbuilder. The fire is supposed to have…
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A LARGE general brick store, in Bourke, belonging to Patrick Murray, was burned to the ground on Saturday morning. The fire stated at 4 o'clock, and everything was destroyed at 6 o'clock. It started…
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NEWCASTLE is far before any other city in New South Wales for conflagrations. They come there as regularly almost as Sundays. The last one occurred on Sunday morning in Messrs. R. Ingall and…
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London, December 13.—At Plymouth to-day, a tenement house in, Love-street, in a low, squalid neighbourhood, took fire, and a terrible calamity resulted. The flames burned rapidly and fiercely,…
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THE annual meeting of the Goulburn Fire Brigade will be held in the station to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. The business will consist of the election of officers…
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THE annual meeting of members of the above, called for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and which took place in the Fire Brigade Office last night, was very well attended, the…
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THE members of the brigade held their monthly meeting at the fire station on Wednesday night. It was resolved that the appointment of branchmen at all fires should be made on the ground. Captain…
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THE fire brigade last evening made some experiments, with a view of testing the force of the water in the Verner-street main. The hydrant was affixed to the plug near the junction of Verner and Auburn…
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A TELEGRAM of terrible import was received on Monday morning at the Government offices. Mr. Gell, general manager of the Lithgow Colliery, telegraphed to the Examiner of Coalfields…
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A telegram has been received by Mr. Mackenzie the examiner of coal fields, from the Lithgow Valley Colliery and Pottery Company to the effect that the pit was on fire and…
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[?] last Monday morning a telegram was [?] in Sydney by Mr. McKenzie, [?]aminer of coal mines, to the effect that [?] pit of the Lithgow Valley Colliery…
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As inquest was held by Mr. S. Robinson, District Coroner, on Monday afternoon, concerning the fire which occurred at Creech's farm, on the Grenfellroad, on the night of the 10th instant…
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FIRE NEAR BRAIDWOOD.—A telegram to the Daily Telegraph states that during Saturday night the homestead at Reedsdale, formerly occupied by James Quinn, was burnt to the ground. The inmates, a…
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Shortly after 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening, a fire occurred in the bath-room at Mr. Johns' Royal Hotel, Yass, but it was speedly extinguished by Dr. Hoots, who happened to be passing at the time, and…
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THE Freemasons' Hotel, Bombala, kept by Mr. T. Barber, was destroyed by fire about 4 o'clock on Sunday morning. Nothing is known, nor can be ascertained, as to the origin of the fire. A man…
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