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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
179 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 9
In Consonance with their practice for the past ten years' the Fire Brigade celebrated the closing of the old year and the beginning of the new by a torchlight procession through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A REAPER and self-binder with harness, torpauline, &c., the property of James McGrath, at Six Mile Flat, Braidwood district, have been burned, it is thought by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE fire occurred yesterday at a lodging house in Buffalo, near New York. Sixteen persons were burnt to death…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great fire has occurred in Boston, United States. An entire block of buildings, including the Globe Theatre, was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE annual general meeting of members of the Goulburn Fire Brigade will be held at the Fire Station, Montague-street, on Wednesday. 17th instant, at 8 p.m. The business will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Tuesday afternoon a fire broke out in the lower portion of Ryrie Park, which was put out as soon as it was observed, but which would have committed considerable injury to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is estimated that nearly 200,000 acres of grass land has been burnt over by bush-fires in the northern portion of the Albary district. Brookong alone lost 70,000 acres,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PASSING along Auburn-street, one cannot but be attracted by the display in Messrs. Hahn Bros'. window, of a large number of trophies won on various occasions by the members of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday, 6.10 p.m. AT suction to-day five thousand six hundred and thirty-four caroases of frozen mutton, which escaped the fire on board the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Hahn Brothers, tobacconists, make a grand display of trophies won by the Goulburn Fire Brigade, which stands second to none in the colony. There are thirty trophies in the collection and it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire has occurred at the Chicago Casino and the buildings of the Liberal Arts section of the World's Fair. Exhibits to the value of 100,000 dollars were destroyed. Incendiartam is suspected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fernmount, Monday.-An inquest was held to-day on the bodies of the two men, Argue and Recs, who were killed at Nana Creek on Friday last by a dynamite explosion. From the evidence it appears…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A STATEMENT of accounts in connection with the recent Fire Brigade demonstration at Bathurst shows that only £5 was cleared. The receipts totalled £241, and the expenses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous fire broke out the morning in Lorn-street, Junee. Several shops were gutted. The premises of Messrs. Burgess and Pentylin, jewellers, were party burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Jesuit College At Antwerp, Belgium, has been burned down. The amount of loss is estimated at 1,000,000 franes. The fire was the work of an incendiary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The premises of Mr. Joseph Thorley, cattle-food manufacture., situated in the Caledonian-road, London, have been burned down. The damage is estimated at £70,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE annual meeting of the Goulburn Fire Brigade for the election of officers was held on Wednesday evening, Superintendent Laws in the chai. All the members were present but two who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE annual meeting of the Goulburn Fire Brigade, for the election of officers for the ensuing twelve months was held at the Central Fire Station, on Wednesday evening. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is the annual report of the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade (Mr. E. R. Laws) to the Fire Brigade Board, received on Thursday:— "In laying before you the annual report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EARLY yesterday morning Mr. Walter Baxter. in company with another, was returning to Goulburn in a buggy from Tarago. Whilst passing along the Braidwood road, they saw…
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