Fire Brigade Torchlight Procession and Dinner
The principal feature of New Year's Eve in Maitland is the torchlight procession and dinner of the West Maitland Volunteer Fire Brigade. A start was made at eight o'clock,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1893
58 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
Bush Fires
BUSH fires have done considerable damage to pasture in the Condobolin district. An outstation cottage and contents on Condobolin station were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Big Fire at Kempsey. Thirteen Buildings Destroyed
At 1 o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in Gogerty's store, Bolgian-street, Kempsey, and speedily got a complete grip of the building,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at the Royal Hotel. The Billiard Room Destroyed
FORTUNATEAY fires very seldom occur in Singleton, but just as people were wending their various ways towards home for dinner on Wednesday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Fire Brigade. Reorganisation
A VERY good response in the way of attenedence was made to the circulars issued inviting citizens to meet at the Fire Brigade Station last night to…
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A very good response in the way of attendance was made to the circulars issued inviting citizens to meet at the Fire Brigade Station on Friday night, to assist in reorganising the Singleton Fire…
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A MEETING of members of the Singleton Fire Brigade was held on Monday evening. Captain Lloyd occupied the chair, and forty-five members answered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire Brigade. Donation from an Insurance Company
By yesterday afternoon's post Mr C. Poppenhagen, local agent of the Liverpool and London and Globe Fire Insurance Company, received a cheque…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Fire at Copenhagen
A fire, attended by fatal results, occurred at Copenhagen on Dec. 20, when the back premises of a house situated in the suburb of Frederiksberg…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Fatal Fire. Two Children Burned. [By Telegraph] Sydney
A FATAL fire occurred at Oxley last night, when a house occupied by jas. Hawker was burned to the ground, and two little boys, aged five and three…
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THE particularly careless manner in which tires are lighted and left burning in the bush has been exemplified by instances recently reported to the…
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The particularly careless manner in which fires are lighted and left burning in the bush has been exemplified by instances recently reported to the Department of Agriculture. That this practice is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heat and Destructive Fires in Victoria. (Argus, Feb. 10.)
The heat yesterday exceeded the record of Thursday last week, and reached the maximum for the summer. Not merely was this the case, however, but the rise in temperature was marked by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Bush Fires in Victoria. Great Destruction of Property
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The bush fire in the Diamond Cro[?]k, district yesterday extended over an area of about 10 square miles. The saddest feature…
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On December 31st a fire broke out in a three-storeyed house at Spitalfields. Five families lived in the house, which in in a crowded locality, The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Fire Lighter
An invention which is a veritable been to housekeepers is a 'firelighter.' This consists of a small iron box filled with asbestos, on which a little parafine oil is poured and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Boston, U.S.A.
Damage to the extent of £1,000,000 sterling has been done by afire, which destroyed a square of warehouses in Boston, United States of America…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Her Husband's Enemy. Chapter I. at Fire Island
The Banjo slid over the beach water and up to the pier-steps, the young man at the prow bringing her "to" like some sensate thing that knew her duty. A few idlers down from the hotel stood by,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Disastrous Fire
A FIRE broke out at 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning in a confectioner's shop in South Argent-street, Broken Hill. The fire brigade got…
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