Big Blaze at Adelaide
Adelaide, Saturday Night.—At half-past 1 to-day a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. T. Hardy and Sons, wine merchants. The heat burst the wine vats…
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Fires & bushfires, 1904
209 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 11
Terrible Disaster. Mine on Fire. Brisbane
A fire broke out this morning in the underground workings of the Brilliant mine, Charters Towers. The flames, which came up the shaft, were extinguished by the fire…
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About 1 o’clock this morning a tire was seen coming from the shaft of the Brilliant mine. It was found that one of the levels was on fire. The men tried to approach it from the Brilliant St…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire Problem. an Invention to Facilitate Escape From Burning Buildings
The death-roll of London fires has in the last years increased rapidly, and this in spite of the aids that science has offered. In 1880, for instance, the…
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A PRIVATE cable from Mr. Charles Cowper, late sheriff of New South Wales, won received by Mr. W. R. Riley in Goulburn at 1238 p.m. to-day, stating that the Grand Hotel at…
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The Grand Hotel, Rotorua (New Zealand), was burned to the ground to-day, many of the guests losing jewellery and…
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Auckland, Monday.âThe Grand Hotel, Rotorua, one of the largest and best equipped hotels in the colony, was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The fire originated in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Affray at Arncliffe. Publican Fires on a Cab. One Man Shot
A shooting affray, resulting in a marl being wounded in the back, took place shortly after midnight on Sunday morning in front of the Gladstone Hotel, Rocky Point Road, Arncliffe…
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A PRIVATE coblegram was received in Sydney on Monday morning to the effect that the Grand Hotel at Roturna, Now Zealand, had bee[?] burnt to the…
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THE speediest method of subdning fires is to get at the seat of the outbreak with a jet of water. If the war was clear for the fireman to get to work on the heart of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Britain and Russia. Sensational Report. Keep Off or We Fire. "Fire Away!" London
The Daily Mail's Tangier correspondent reports that a naval officer relates that Admiral Rozhdestvensky, annoyed at the British squadron roll following him, signalled, "If you don't…
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MR. R. W. WARD, who has since the resignation of the late Mr. Laws, fulfilled the duties of acting-superintendent to the Goulburn Fire Brigade, has been appointed to the…
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Mr. R. W. Ward, who has (since the resignation of the late Mr. Laws) fulfilled the duties of acting superintendent of the Goulburn Fire Brigade, has been appointed superintendent of the Brigade…
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A TRIAL was made on Friday at the Sydney hospital of an installation of water pipes which have been laid along the side of the building facing Parliament House, to guard…
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ABOUT 4.30 yesterday afternoon a fire was discovered in Dr. Burkitt's dispensary in Market-street. The alarm was given and the brigade turned out, but their services…
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THE authorities at Prince Alfred Hospital have decided to inaugurate a system of fire drill. The first of these drills was held on Saturday morning, when about 70 nurses and…
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NEWS reached Crookwell yesterday that a destructive fire broke [?] at the residence of Dr. Burkitt, Goulburu on Sunday evening at about…
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A fire the cause of which is unknown, occurred, in the dispensary attached to Dr. Burkitt's residence in Market-street about 4.30 p.m. on Sunday. No one seems to have been in…
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The Yass Fire Brigade, by way of suitably carrying out the drawing of their Art union for the sulky, have decided upon a grand ministrel entertainment,…
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Something of a sensation was caused on Tuesday evening, when a bush fire got going on Do[?]ro beyound the O’Connelltown sub-division. It seems to have…
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