The Fire Brigade Station
ONE of the aldermen who "wanted to know, you know," at last night's Council meeting was Alderman Richardson, who inquired whether the committee appointed to provide now quarters…
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Fires & bushfires, 1889
75 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 4
Fire at the Arcadian Palace Skating Rink
AT about half-past 5 this morning Mr. Brookes, railway employee, observed smoke proceeding from the Arcadian Palace Rink and immediately gave tile alarm to Mr. Gaudy,…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The inquiry into the burning of the Bijou Theatre was concluded to-day. The jury returned a unanimous verdict that there was no evidence to show how the…
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About 10 o'clock on Sunday night a fire occurred in a tailor's shop occupied by George Noble, and situated at 127, Regent-street, during which a young woman was suffocated,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fire Brigades Parade. LONDON, May 26
At a fire brigades parade at Whitehall yesterday the police control was found to be inadequate and deficient. The crowd mobbed the carriage of the Prince of Wales and the Princess of Wales…
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A large fire has occurred at Lubeck, in Mecklenberg. Stores containing large quantities of cotton and flax were burnt. The damage is estimated at 2,000,000 marks…
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A disastrous fire occurred at Seattle, in the territory of Washington. The fire devastated an area of 74 acres, the damage to property amounting to 20,000,000 dollars. Many persons…
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On Wednesday night last, the now Commercial Bank building, Braidwood, had a narrow escape of being burnt down. The first person that entered the office on Thursday morning…
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SHORTLY after 8 o'clock on Sunday night a passer by discovered a fire on the premises of Schrieber and Schaieffer, general importers, principally of fancy goods, Flinders-lane West,…
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The sun has gone down, and I'm not at all sorry To hobble the mare out, and put on her bell, For we've had a hard day of labour and worry, And I'm not only tired, but aching as well…
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" I'm thinking of matching a dryer for drying sawdust," said a well known Lewiston man, Tuesday. "It will be a big business some day. A firm down in…
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THE Council have made arrangements for a weekly tenancy of the brick building next the Royal Hotel, and until recently forming a portion of the premises occupied by Mr. W…
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ABOUT 3 on Friday morning Spiers and Steele's builders' workshop at Crookwell was destroyed by fire; on adjoining wheelwright's shop narrowly escaped destruction. The damage is estimated…
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A FIRE, supposed to have been wilfully caused by some person or persons at present unknown, broke out on Sunday afternoon in Mr. John Brook's house at Boxer's Creek. The premises…
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AN inquest was held on Tuesday as to the origin of the fire at Spiers and Steele's workshop last Friday morning. A verdict was returned that there was no evidence to show how the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News by Cable. Terrible Fire in America. LONDON, August 6
The town of Spokane, in the Washington Territory, United Staten, has been devastated by fire, the damage done being estimated at 10,000,000 dollars…
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AT an early hour yesterday morning a fire attended with fatal results occurred at a tailor's shop in Verner-street occupied by James Kelly, and adjoining Boyd's boarding-house (formerly the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Fire in Goulburn. a Man Burnt to Death
ONE of the saddest fatalities we have ever had to record occurred yesterday shortly before 1 o'clock a.m., an old man being burnt to death in a wooden structure in Verner-street, built against…
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A FIRE occurred at the Petersham Arcade, Paramstta-road, on Sunday morning, and the place was almost destroyed. The building has for some time been used as a skating rink. The…
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Carcoar, Wednesday.—An inquiry was held at the Court-house, lasting the whole day, before Mr. J. O. Dodd, district coroner, into the cause of the fire at the Court-house Hotel, occupied by…
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