Goulburn Fire Brigades Board
THE annual report of the Goulburn Board was laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly last night by Sir George Dibbs. It stated that the brigade continued…
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Fires & bushfires, 1893
120 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 6
A Specific for Fires
ALBURY, Wednesday.—W. Gracic, of Wagra, claims to have discovered a specific which should prove invaluable as a preventative against bush fires. It is stated that land…
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MOUNT M'DONALD, Monday—Early yesterday morning a fire was discovered in a largo two-storey building, occupied by Mr. J. J. Jones, contractor for the Biggs mail, as a billiard-room and residence…
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FATAL FIRE AT BROKEN HILL.—A fire took place on Monday evening in Brazil-street, Broken Hill, by which a six-roomed wood and iron house belonging to a widow named Mrs…
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A disastrous fire has taken place in Boston, in the United States, resulting in the total destruction of a large block of buildings. The damage amounts to 4,000,000 dollars…
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Telegrams from New York report that a disastrous and fatal fire has occurred in the city of Boston. A whole square of extensive warehouses…
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A fire broke out at five o'clock on Wednesday morning in a confectioner's shop in South Argent-street. The fire brigade received…
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THE Braidwood Dispatch reports that a fire broke out in the store of Messrs. Solomon and Co., Wallace-street, about half-past five on Monday afternoon. A strong wind was…
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An awful prairie fire has occurred at Omaba, in the State of Nebraska Fifteen miles of country was devastated. The fire travelled at the rate of 40 miles an hour. Many villages which lay in the path…
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HARDEN, Monday.—Mr. Kisbee's Carrington Hotel, a brick building, was burnt to the ground this morning. The premises and also the stock and furniture were insured. Mr. and Mrs. Kisbee were…
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A CASK of much importance to pastoralists, farmers, selectors, and, indeed, all other persons who may have sustained losses through bush fires, was heard in the Wagga…
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MOORE'S timber-yard, on the south bank of the Yarra, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The damage is estimated at £30,000…
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THE first case before the Full Court on Monday was the appeal of the defendant in the action of Macauley v. Bank of N.S.W. The plaintiff, Wm. Macauley, a farmer in…
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THE Bowral Free Press has been informed by Mr. W. R. Farrow, council clerk at Bowral, that a letter has been received from Mr. Mc Court M.P., stating that out of the…
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Saginaw, an important town in the State of Michigan (U.S.A), situated on an inlet of Lake Huron, has been devastated by fire. The larger portion of the town was destroyed by…
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SHORTLY after eleven o'clock on Wednesday night the Circular Quay station of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received an alarm for a fire on a ship at the Central Wharf. An…
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BY 10 am. on Thursday the fire in the four-masted iron ship Port Jackson, at the Central Wharf, was completely under control. The cargo in the lower hold, consisting of tar, sulphur, cement,…
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EARLY on Sunday morning a fire broke out in the premises of the Sydney Soap and Candle Company, off Bourke-road, Alexandria, and after having destroyed about…
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ON Saturday last Mr. O'Brien, coroner, held an inquest at the residence of Mr. W. O. Cooper, Currawang, touching a fire which occurred on 24th March last in a house leased…
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ON Saturday evening a fire occurred in a wooden house in Train street occupied by Mr. Thomas Lake, bootmaker. Mr. Lake, his wife, and family, were out at the time. The alarm was given by a…
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