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

Fires & bushfires, 1905

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West End Fire. Carriage Quarter Ablaze. Exciting Rescues. Did Petrol Feed the Outbreak? Its Terrible Dangers

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 4

Long Acre, the home of the carriage and motor-car industry, was on February 22 the scene of a great FIRE. A large block of business…

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Fires which Never go Out

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 May 1905 · page 4

AT Slapstones, near Osmotherly, a tillage on the Yorkshire moors, is an unpretentious inn called the Chequers, which, despite its common-place appearance, can boast the…

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Fire at Kenmore

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 May 1905 · page 3

ABOUT [?] p.m. yesterday, a four-roomed wooden cottage occupied by Mr. George Curry, carpenter, and adjoining the Kenmore Hospital for the Insane, was burnt down…

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Fire at Kenmore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 May 1905 · page 4

On Tuesday afternoon the shop and residence of Mrs. Curry at Kenmore were totally destroyed by fire. The cause of the outbreak is at present unknown. When the alarm was given a number of…

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The Latest. SYDNEY, Thursday. FIRE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 May 1905 · page 2

Buncle's agricultural implement works at North Melbourne wore burnt out early this morning. The works were valued at from £15,000 to £20,000…

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A Column of Fire Forty Feet High

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 May 1905 · page 4

Melbourne, Tuesday.—A remarkable occurrence took place this evening at the corner of Johnston and Nicholson streets, Abbotsford. Sewerage works are being carried out on an…

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Alarm of Fire

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 2

SHORTLY before 1.30 a.m. yesterday, many residents were aroused from their slumber, and brought out in a very heavy fog, by the clanging of the fire-bell. The fire proved to…

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Motor Fire Engine for Brisbane

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 4

THE Metropolitan Fire Brigade of Briasbane, Queensland, will shortly put into service a powerful motor tire engine of novel construction. This machine, which has been built by…

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New Bell for the Fire Station

The Yass Courier · Friday 26 May 1905 · page 2

Last week a new bell arrived for the fire station. We believe it will be erected at once. The new bell is much larger than the one now in use and will be…

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Constitution of Fire Brigades

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 2

It is the desire of the Chief Secretary to place the fire brigades on a better footing as regards their finances, and, with that object in view, he is preparing a bill for submission to Parliament…

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Decks Swept by Shell Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 June 1905 · page 2

The Seoul correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that by 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon Admiral Rozhdestvensky was completely defeated. The pursuit of the remnant…

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Woful Fire at a Wool Factory

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

On Friday, 18th June, 1875 a fire most destructive to life and property, occurred in the carpet manufactory and wool works of Mr. James Templeton, at Ayr, the…

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Between Two Fires

Goulburn Herald · Monday 5 June 1905 · page 3

Some of the military in St. Petersburg suggest the possibility of the Japanese establishing a base at the estuary of the Amur, whence gunboats could roach K[?]abarovka…

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Between Two Fires

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 1

Some military authorities in St. Petersburg suggest the possibility of the Japanese establishing a base on an estuary of the Amur. Thence gunboats could reach Khabarovska,…

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Fire at a Private Hospital

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 June 1905 · page 4

Narrabri, Tuesday.—A house of nine rooms, belonging to Mrs. G. Williams, of Newcastle, was destroyed by fire this morning at about 4 o'clock. The premises were occupied by Nurse Cos[?]rove as…

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Country Fire Brigades. a New Act Promised

Goulburn Herald · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 4

A DEPUTATION representing country volunteer fire brigades was introduced to the Chief Secretary on Wednesday by Mr. D. Storey, M.L.A., who said that its object was that the…

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Alarm of Fire

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 June 1905 · page 2

ABOUT 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon an alarm of fire was given, but events proved that the bell should not have been rung at all. It appears that Mr. Underwood of…

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Fire in a Kerosene Tin

Goulburn Herald · Friday 16 June 1905 · page 2

STILL , another false alarm of fire-making the fourth in the past two or three weeks—has to be reported in Goulburn. About 11 o'clock on Wednesday night both the North…

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Fire Brigade Ball

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 19 June 1905 · page 2

A novel meeting took place in the Fire Station on Thursday afternoon, being a gathering of ladies who are so very kindly interesting themselves in the Fire…

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Bush Fires Relief

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 2

The following letter has been received by Mr. Niel Nielsen, M.L.A., from the Secretary of the Lord Mayor’s Fund : Dear sir,—The letters which I have…

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