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

Fires & bushfires, 1907

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Bush Fires

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 2

A GRASS fire broke out on Mr. McCulloch's station, The Oaks, eight miles from Cootamundra, on Friday, and destroyed 1000 acres of grass and fencing before it could be got…

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Bookham. Bush-fire Brigade

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 2

All the details in connection with the recently inaugurated Bush-fire Brigade at Bookham have been arranged, and rules agreed upon. Councillor R. Julian,…

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Celluloid Factory Fire

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 4

A factory for celluloid articles at Geispolsheim, Alsace-Lorraine, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Twenty youths and girls who were unable to escape were incinerated…

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Fire in Celluloid Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

A fire broke out in a celluloid articles manufactory at Geispolsheim, in Alsace, Germany. Twenty youths and girls, who…

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A Fire Caused by Lightning

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 1

AT Mr Manuel Silva's Farm, McMahon's Reef, last night the lightning. set fire to a Large dry tre[?]causing a bush f[?]e, fortunately very…

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Celluloid Factory Fire. London, Jan 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 4

A factory for celluloid articles at Geispolsheim, Alsace-Lorraine, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Twenty youths and girls who were unable to escape were incinerated…

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Dreadful Ravages by Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 2

Mr. Hamar Greenwood, M.P., cabled to the Colonial Office from Holland Bay, 35 miles west of Kingston, giving an account of the disaster Mr. Greenwood states that all the…

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The Latest. Jamaica Earthquake. Shocks Continue. Fire Under Control. Sir James Fergusson Killed. London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 2

Later official news states that Sir James Fergusson, formerly Governor of South Australia, and later Governor of New Zealand, was killed during the Jamaica…

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District News. Binalong. Fire Brigade

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 2

The Binalong end have completed the organisation of their bush fire brigade, elected officers, agreed to rules, and are now anxiously waiting to try conclusions…

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Fire Brigades Demonstration

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 2

THE annual demonstration of the fire brigades of New South Wales will be held at Wagga on Monday' and Tuesday next. The following members of the local brigade will leave…

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Binalong. Bush Fire Brigade

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 2

Following are the Office-bearers, and Rules, in connection with the Binaglong Bush Fire Brigade.—PRESIDENT, Mr. P. Dwyer:…

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Binalong Fire Brigade

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 2

The Binalong end have completed the organisation of their bush fire brigade, elected officers, agreed to rules, and are now anxiously waiting to try…

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Burglar and Fire Alarm

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 2

A firm in London are introducing an electric automatic metropolitan police whistle, slightly penetrating through the wall protected by an air-brick, with wire…

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Careless Use of Fire Amending Act

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 6

With all the conditions ripe for firing, whether through accident or design, it is useful for the countryman to be acquainted with the provisions…

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Fire at Gundowringa

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 January 1907 · page 2

ON Wednesday a stack containing about ninety tons of wheaten hay belonging to Mr. C. E. Prell was destroyed at Gundowringa, about twenty miles from Goulburn. The…

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Careless Use of Fire. the New and More Stringent Law

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 1

With all the conditions ripe for firing, whether through accident or design, it is useful for the Countryman to be…

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Steamer on Fire

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 4

H.M.S. Diadem, in the Bay of Bengal rescued 101 passengers and the mails from the North German liner Seydlitz, which was on fire. The seydlitz, escorted by the…

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Fire

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 2

ABOUT 9.30 last evening an alarm of fire was given, and the conflagration proved to be in the lamp-room at the Goulburn railway station. The brigade, owing to some…

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Great Fire at Kempsey

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 2

A great fire has occurred at Kempsey. Almost every building in the mam portion of the city is destroyed. It was about twenty minutes to 4…

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A Noyel Fire Escape

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 2

A novel fire-escape which has been creeted at a school in Louisville. It consists of a steel cylinder and a spiral slide, which is so constructed that it controls…

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