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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires
143 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 8
NEWCASTLE, Monday.—The barque Highlands, lying at No. 1 buoy in the stream, is fiercely burning, and her total destruction is inevitable. The outbreak occurred at 12.35 a.m., and it is not yet known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TEMORA, Saturday.—Constable Martin and Watchman Hawkins rang out an alarm of fire this morning about a quarter-past 1 o'clock. The fire was discovered burning in a wooden portion of the Empire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE members held a wet practice on Wednesday evening at the fire station in Montaguestreet. All the members were present and the following evolutions were gone through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE remarks of the obairman of the Goulburn fire-brigades board on Wednesday evening, supplemented as they were by others in the same strain, are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE members held a wet practice on Wednesday evening at the fire station in Montague-street. All the members were present, and the following evolutions were gone through :â…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle, Saturday.--During last night a bark house belonging to a man named Samuel Outram, at Cardiff took lire. Mrs. Outram and four children were in bed at the time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous bush fires in the southern portion of the province of Ottawa, Canada, have devastated a district twenty miles in length…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE damage caused by a fire at Messrs. George Murray and Co.'s printing works in Clarence-street early this morning is estimated at about £6000. The firm are fully…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As elated in Friday's Herald, a fire of a very destructive character breks out in Clarence-street that morning. The outbreak was dis[?] at Messrs. George Murrya and Co.'s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The town of Windsor, Nova Scotia, has been destroyed by fire. The banks, churches, and other buildings are in ruins. 3000 persons are homeless. Tents and supplies of provisions have been sent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN unoccupied wooden cottage in Garfield, West Goulburn, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. It is not known how the fire originated. The alarm was given about three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RESIDENTS were disturbed about three o'clock on Saturday morning by the vigorous clanging of the fire-bell. Early as the hour was numbers left their beds and proceeded to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire has broken out in the petroleum springs at Baku, in Caucasia, Russia. Damage has been caused to the amount of 1,000,000 roubles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE cottage at Garfield which was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning last was insured for £50. Mr. Laws estimates the damage at £75. Mr. Freely, the owner, lives at Sunny Corner, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BOURKE, Wednesday.—Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning the fire bell rang out, and the alarm was given that the Bijou Theatre was on fire. The building was little more than a shell, being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the Goulburn Police Court to-day, Jimmy Hung, a Chinaman, was charged with the careless use of fire at Bungonia on 18th instant. Constable Hahesy deposed that Hung told him that he lit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent writes : The people of Binda were on Friday morning awakened from their slumbers by the cry of fire. A bark kitchen close to the post-office, belonging to Mr. K. Fabey, took fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Among the buildings destroyed by the great fire were those of Messrs. Bing, Harris, and Co., and Messrs. Nathan and Co., New Zealand merchants, both of Hamsell-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MANY thousands of persons visited the scone of the conflagration during to-day, but the civic authorities blocked all traffic through the streets adjoining the devastated area. The Mayor of Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne, Sunday.--Never in the history of Melbourne has such a disaster happened in the city as that which overtook it this morning, when the block of buildings known as the…
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