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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
75 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 4
AN unsuccessful attempt to set fire to Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co.'s large wool store at Pyrmont was made on Wednesday night. About 10 o'clock on that evening the attention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT about eleven o'clock last night a fire was discovered burning at the rear of Mr. J. J. Roberts's residence, Kinghorn-street, near the fence or wood-heap. It had probably been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some thousands of tons of copra have been destroyed in a large fire which occurred at Marseilles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT 12.27 yesterday morning an alarm was convoyed to the fire station of a fire at Dixson's tobacco factory, at the corner of Elizabeth and Park streets. Two steamers immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was a general impression in the public mind that fires in London had increased during 1888, and (observes a London contemporary) it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL test of the Grinnel sensitive automatic fire extinguisher and continuous fire alarm was made in the yard attached to the Central Fire Brigade Station, Castlereagh…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The town of Surat in the Bombay Presidency has been the scene of a great fire. A large portion of the town was destroyed and 15,000 persons have been rendered homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible fire has occurred at Savannah, a town and port in the State of Georgia, in the United States of America. Fifty buildings were destroyed and the total…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible prairie fire has been raging in the territory of Dakota, in the United States. A train from Nebraska entered the burning prairie and soon became enveloped in the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS morning between 5 o'clock and half-past, Constable McCullen, who was on duty in Auburn-street, observed smoke issuing from the shop in the Royal Hotel building occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN inquiry into the origin of the fire at Mr. Maxwell's, jeweller's, on Saturday morning last, was formally commenced on that day. The jury were sworn, and visited the premises, after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About half past four on Monday afternoon a fire broke out in the dress-circle of tile Bijou Theatre, Bourke-street East. The flames spread to every portion of the building, which rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the Borough Council on Thursday evening, a letter was received from Mr. T. Ranken, hon. sec. Young Fire Brigade, notifying that he had been directed to enclose report by the engineers upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—Shortly before 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning, when 220 miles from Auckland, a fire was discovered in the forehatch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE coroner for this district (Mr. Harold O'Brien, J.P.) held an inquiry in the court-house to-day touching the cause of the fire at Mr. John Maxwell's jewellery establishment in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Tuesday last Mr. H. O'Brien, resumed at the courthouse the inquiry (formally commenced ten days previously) into the cause of the fire which occurred in the shop of Mr. J. Maxwell, jeweller,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the report of the inquest on the late fire at Mr. Maxwell's jewellery establishment which appeared in our last issue an error inadvertently occurred. Our reporter understood Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fires which broke out in the Calumet and Hecla copper mines, in the United States, have been extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By a fire at the City Soap Works, London, damage to the extent of a quarter of a million sterling was done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Timothy Daly, writing to us (Yass Courier) on the 6th instant from his residence, Little Plain, near Dalton, states that during his absence from home the working men's hut on…
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