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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
92 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 5
To afford the patients in the hospital seasonable recreation, several ladies and gentlemen kindly undertook to give a musical entertainment on Wednesday evening, the last of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Owing to the destruction of warehouses stocked with valuable furs, the total loss by the fire now amounts to £500,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fifth Avenue Theatre and Hermann's Theatre, New York, have been completely gutted by fires. The fires occurred at midnight on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SPECIAL meeting of the fire-brigade was held at the temporary fire-station on Wednesday evening. There was a full attendance of members. Mr. E. B. Laws, superintendent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No township in the colony has been freer from destructive fires than Yass. This immunity, has not, perhaps, been the result of extra care fulness on the part of the inhabitants; in fact,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday evening between 9 and 10 o'clock a galvanised shed at Eastgrove, the property of Messrs. C. Roger and Co., and containing about ten tons of hay was totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YASS Thursday.—The local Council Chambers were nearly destroyed by fire last night. The auditors, who had been auditing the accounts with the council clerk, left the Chambers at 11…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN inquiry was held at the Courthouse List Saturday before the District Coroner (Mr. N. I" Collins, J.P.) and a jury, consisting of Messrs. A. W. Thomson (foreman), J. W. Howard, P. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following annual report of the superintendent of the Goulburn Fire-brigade was road at the last meeting of the board hold on Friday afternoon:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Wednesday evening after the fire-brigade practice, a presentation was made to Captain Ward, as a mark of respect and esteem in which he was held by his fellow firemen, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In connection with the barque West Lothian, which arrived at Pernambuce, in Brazil, with her cargo on fire, it is now reported that the cargo was slightly damaged and that part of it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT about half-past 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon an alarm of fire was given from the central station in Montague-street. The fireman were quickly on the spot, but it was found on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Fire Brigade Board at a meeting on Friday last confirmed the following nominations of brigade officers for the ensuing year as submitted by the brigade:—Surgeon, Dr. Leslie…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SQUAD of the Goulburn Volunteers going through their course of musketry instruction at the butts on Saturday last had a novel and decidedly objectionable experience. First of all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANDELO, Monday.—Two young men named Thompson and Ryan were arrested at Rocky Hall on Saturday, charged with saturating the clothes of an old man named Mark Southwell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lunatic asylum at Nashville, Kentucky, (U.S.A.), has boon burned down. The confinoos, numbering 500, escaped from the building, and are at largo. The county militia ire now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Baxter and Co.'s Glebe tannery had a narrow escape from being burned down yesterday. It the room adjoining the wattle-bark room a quantity of dust had accumulated on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE new fire bridges station in Montague-street was formally taken possession of by the members on Wednesday evening, and all the appliances placed in position. The building is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TEAM representing the Goulburn Fire Brigade competed at Benalla, Victoria, on Easter Monday in two eventsâthe four men engine practice and eight men engine practice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Sunday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, and just as the people were leaving church a short distance away, the hay and straw stacks of Mr. Samuel…
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