Blaze in Railway Yards
About midnight last night (Friday) a small blaze occurred in the railway yards. An old carriage used as a fuelman's rest house caught alight and was quickly consumed. The fire was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1916
178 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 9
Fire Destroys Crops
Young, Thursday.—A fire broke out three miles from Wombat, on the Murrumburrah-road, yesterday, and did considerable damage. D. Whybrow wan drawing timber along the…
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Last year the Goulburn Fire Brigade had to deal with 16 outbreaks. The most destructive was Gillespie's Boot Factory. An unoccupied wooden cottage in Maud-street, North…
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A disastrous fire occurred in Cunningham. street, Dulby; Queensland, Into lost night. Eleven business premises an one residence were destroyed. The fire is still burning. The…
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News from Tangier states that the Greek steamer Salonika ironladen for Glasgow was seen near Tarina enveloped in flames. It is believed that 400 of the crew wore taken off…
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Berrigan, Thursday.—As a result of one of the bearings of a harvester running hot and igniting some stubble, just as it was being pulled up to be emptied, a fire occurred in a large wheat…
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The telephone is undoubtedly one of the most useful public utilities in Australia to-day. To farmers, however, at this period of the year it is doubly…
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A serious fire occurred on Mr. J. G. Ritchi[?] property, at Berrigan, on Tuesday, over 200 acres of wheat, and a like quantity of stubble being…
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A fire about [?] o'clock yesterday morning totally destroyed on old hut adjoining the main road about a mile this [?] of Wombat. Neighbours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sensational Incident. a Night Encounter. Men on Wagga Railway Viaduct. Sentry Fires Shot
Three men, William Wilson, Peter Buckley, and Sydney Dower, were fined 20s each, in default seven days' Imprisonment, by Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M…
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A fire ant Jerilderie this morning destroyed three business places and one private residence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Co[?]onerial Ioquiry Recent Fire in Crookwell
Mr. S. L. Cox. J. P., coroner for the district, held an inquiry at the Crookwell court-house on Thursday and Friday last into the cause of the fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Woodhouselee. Now in Tarlo District. No Serious Damage So Far
A bush fire started on Mrs. F. R. Siggs' property, Woodhouselee, on Tuesday at about half-past 12 in the afternoon in the paddock known as Salmon's. A strong gale was blowing, and…
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A bush fire started on Mrs R. F. Siggs' property Wood-houselee, on Tuesday at about twelve in the afternoon in the…
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The particulars of the fire which occured at Mr. Dunnett's farm, Demondrille, show that the shire traction engine was drawing wheat from the…
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London, Jan. 14.—A terrible fire occurred at Tyne Deck, South Shields. A westerly wind was blowing. The fire started aboard a Norwegian barque. It spread to some creosoted…
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On Friday night (says the Signal) a locomotive attached to a train set fire to a portion of the police paddock, but it was ertinguished without any…
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A fire broke out in some small sheds in the yard of Mr. F. P. Kelly's residence, Auburn-street, on Saturday afternoon. Members of the Bowling Club were promptly on the scene, and…
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Grenfell, Saturday.—Mr. Alfred Durham, of Grenfell, had five large stacks of hay, also a chaffcutter, two large sheds, and an oil engine destroyed by fire Inst evening. The loss is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire in Norway. Christiania
A fire at Bergen, a seaport in western Norway, raged the whole night, spreading to twenty distinct quarters, and destroying the central telephone exchange, four hotels, and three schools…
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