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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1899

163 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 9

The Fire Brigades Board

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1899 · page 3

MR. EDITOR,—Certain remarks made at last meeting of the borough council are calculated to produce a wrong impression, and therefore call for some explanation…

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The Fire Brigades Board. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 May 1899 · page 4

MR. EDITOR.—Certain remarks made at last meeting of the Borough Council are calculated to produce a wrong impression, and therefore call for some explantion…

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Fire in Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 May 1899 · page 4

A FIRE occurred in Coromandel-street between 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning by which two unoccupied weatherboard cottages belonging to Catherine McMahon, of Sydney, wore totally…

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Dawson City Destroyed by Fire. London, May 22

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 26 May 1899 · page 4

A FIRE broke out in Dawson City, the centre of the Klondyke goldfields. The flames spread with great rapidity, and…

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Big Fire at Bourke. Several Shops Destroyed. Firemen Seriously Injured. Bourke, Friday Afternoon

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 31 May 1899 · page 4

A disastrous fire broke out shortly before 2 o’clock at Bourke on Friday afternoon in Mitchell-street. Barnett and Barron’s tailoring establishment Was destroyed ; also…

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Fire in Victoria Docks. London, June 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1899 · page 4

A fire broke out in a large shed in the Victoria Docks, in which the cargo of the steamer Banffshire, of the Elderslie line, was stored. The fire spread to the Banffshire, which was…

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Fatal Fire at Waratah

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 June 1899 · page 5

Newcastle, Friday.—An outbreak of fire, attended with fatal results, occurred at about midnight on Wednesday in a three-roomed weatherboard dwelling, situated off…

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Fire at Newcastle-on-tyne. London, June 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 June 1899 · page 4

A disastrous fire has occurred at the shipbuilding works of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Three workshops were burnt and much costly machinery was…

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A Mine on Fire. London, June 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 June 1899 · page 4

The fire in the coal mine near Halifax, Nova Scotia, in which a terrible explosion occurred, is burning fiercely, though the workings were flooded. It is feared that 160 entombed miners have…

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Klondyke's Capital Burnt Out. Nearly £1,00,000 Damagr

Goulburn Herald · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 4

THE Canadian mail which strived on Wednesday brings details of the terrible fire which swept over Dawson City, the metropolis of Klondyke, on…

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Recovery of Fire Brigade Contributions

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 3

AT the Newtown Police Court on Friday the Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, as representative of the Fire Brigades' Board, proceeded against the Boroughs of Strathfield,…

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Fire-brigades Boards

Goulburn Herald · Monday 3 July 1899 · page 3

THE tension between the Goulburn Fire. Brigades Board and the Fire Underwriters' Association and the companies has been amicably settled. All companies having…

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The Fire Brigade Difficulty

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 July 1899 · page 2

THE Mayor has informed us that the long-standing difficulty between the Goulburn Fire Brigade and the Fire Insurance Companies doing business in the city has been amicably settled. As stated by…

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Fire at Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 July 1899 · page 2

MOSS VALE, Wednesday.—A fire occurred here this morning shortly after 6 o'clock in two weather. board shops opposite the post-office in Argyle-street, occupied by Roberts, a baker, and Flook, a butcher…

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Motor Fire Engines. London, June 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 July 1899 · page 4

The Paris Municipal Council has adopted motor fire engines and water carts…

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Fire at Moss Vale

Goulburn Herald · Friday 7 July 1899 · page 3

SHORTLY after daylight on Wednesday morning it was found that the premises opposite the post-office, occupied by Mr. J. Roberts, baker, and Mr. J Flook, butcher, were ablaze…

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Fire at Temora

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 10 July 1899 · page 2

TEMORA, Saturday.—A destructive fire broke out last night at the Golden Gate Hotel, owned by Mr. Francis Burdett Smith, situated at the corner of Hoskins…

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A District Wiped Out by Fire

Goulburn Herald · Monday 10 July 1899 · page 2

THE great fire on Coney Island, a New York seaside resort, wiped out a district. Nearly 200 hotels, saloons, bathing pavilions, and other buildings…

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Big Fire at Temora

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 4

TEMORA, Saturday.—A very destructive fire broke out last night at the Golden Gate Hotel, owed by Mr. Francis Burdett Smith, situated at the corner of Hoskins and Deboos streets, containing eight…

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Fires at Temora

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 12 July 1899 · page 2

ON our f[?] page appears particulars of a fire which took place at Temora on Friday night and which resulted in the total destruction of the Golden Gate Hotel owned by Mr. Francis…

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