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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
143 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 8
THE annual New Year procession took place last night. The Brigade have for some years past welcomed the new year in this manner, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRAIDWOOD, Friday.—The grandstand at the racecourse was burnt down last night at eleven o'clock. There is not the slightest clue as to the origin of the fire. The property Was valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE amount subscribed by the citizens towards the torchlight procession on New Year's Eva was £7 10/6 The expenditure was £7 4/6, leaving a credit balance of 6/6,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Took place at Mudgee last night, when two children, aged four and six, of Mrs. Gurton were burnt beyond recognition. It appears the mother put four children to bed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE annual meeting of the Goulburn Fire Brigade was held at the Central Station on Wednesday evening. Superintendent Laws occupied the chair, and there was an attendance of about twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE annual meeting was held at the fire station on Wednesday evening. Superintendent Laws president, and there was a full attendance of members, The only business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A LONDON paper prints a letter from one of the crew on board the steamship Worsley Hall, which caught fire in mid-ocean, and reached New York…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MUDGEE, Thursday.—The inquest on the victims of the recent fire was concluded to day vi h an examination of Mrs. Gurton and her s n Willie and the re-examination…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Friday last a very destructive fire took place at Mr. Thomas Privett's, Manton's Creek, The first division of the excursion train passed, and almost immediately after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →List Monday, Mr. Thomas Dowling, of Blakney Creek, started to thresh his wheat with a steam threshing machine. When everything was ready the engine would not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FOLLOWING is the Superintendent's (Mr. E. R. Laws') annual report to the Fire Brigades Board:— GENTLEMEN,—The annual report for year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOLLOWING is the annual report of the Superintendent (Mr. E. R. Laws) to the Fire Brigades' Board :— GENTLEMEN,—The annual report for year 1896…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORTLY before 8 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the Eagle Tobacco Company's Factory, Clarence-street, and notwithstanding the [?]hergetic efforts of the brigades the whole building…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COOLGARDIE, Sunday.—Last evening a disastrous fire occurred in Bayley-street. The result was that five frontages were destroyed. The fire is supposed to have originated in the office of Messrs. Mann and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire occurred it a pawnbroker's shop at Botany-rood, Waterloo, by which a girl named Jessie Dalohery, aged seventeen, in attempting to escape from the burning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE wheat stack of 400 bushels, destroyed by fire at Grabben Gullen on Saturday last, was the joint property of Messrs. P. Lannan and W. Hayes. Mr. Hayes will feel the loss severely and his neighbours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dowager Countess of Delawarr has had a narrow escape from being burnt to death. The town residence of the Countess was destroyed by fire this morning, and by the time the alarm reached…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A disastrous fire has occurred in the city of Philadelphia, U.S.A. Thirty buildings were burned, and damage to the extent of over two million dollars was done…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out this morning in Victoria-street, Paddington, in the dwelling of George Gilebrust. A candle left burning ignited the bed-curtains and the bed was quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harden, Tuesday.—A fire occurred this morning at Mr. A. Bembrick's store and dwelling. The fire in supposed to have originated in a wash-house detached. The front of the main building, the…
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