Fire Brigades Board. Muswellrook
The Council has resolved "to nominate Major Cracknell to represent the Country Districts Fire Brigade Board…
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Fires & bushfires, 1910
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Big Fire at Kilburn. Damage Estimated at £100,000. LONDON, Jan. 14
A fire at Evans' drapery stores at Kilburn caused damage estimated at £100,000. The outbreak occurred through an electric wire fusing in a show window filled with…
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A fire at the residence of Lord Derwent, Hackness Hall, Scarborough, has caused damage estimated at many thousand pounds, but a quantity of paintings and valuable furniture were saved…
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A serious fire occurred at Circular Quay early this morning owing to a large number of copra bags being ignited by combustion. About three hundred bags were destroyed. The damage is roughly…
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Hackness Hall, near Scarborough, the residence of Lord Derwent has been destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to many thousands of pounds; but a…
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A fire occurred about live o'clock last evening in a hayshed, the property of Mr. Herbert Smith, near the Victoria Bridge. There were four stacks of have in the shed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Constantinople Fire. Parliament House Destroyed. London. Jan. 20
Thursday a fire broke out in Chiragan of Consta[?] the residence of the [?] and the meeting place of the Parliament Turkey. Sailors from Russian and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Very Latest Cables. Factory Fire in United States. Heavy Loss of Late. London, Thursday afternoon
A fire has occurred in a factory at Philadophia, U.S.A., through the fusing of an electric wire in a third story. A panic resulted, and there was an utter absences of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kurri Fire Brigade Social Gathering
The members of the Kurri Fire Brigade held a social in Lambert's Hall on Wednesday evening to commemorate the passing of he Fire Brigades' Bill. An…
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Professor Park, of Dunedin, who has de[?]oted much attention to the cause and prevention of fires on ships carrying wool and vegetable fibre as cargo, has prepared an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Spite of Earthquake and Fire. Marvellous Rebuilding
The rebuilding of San Francisco, after the destruction by earthquake and fire in 1906, has proceeded, according to an ingenious calculator, at the rate of one…
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A fire was discovered in the coal bunkers of the steamer Prinz Sigismund, but it was extinguished after a few minutes…
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The Norwegian barque Amicas struck a reef of Hapai, New Zealand, and was benched. The vessel subsequently caught fire owing to some cause which is unexplained, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire Brigades. New Districts Formed
With the passing of the new Fire Brigades Bill, which provides for the merging of tho late Metropolitan Fire Brigade into the New South Wales Fire…
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A disastrous fire has occurred at Burraga. Nearly all the buildings on one side of the main street have been destroyed…
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We learn that the Mayor of West Maitland (Major Cracknell), who is a candidate for a seat as a country representative on the new Fire Commissioners' Board, is receiving…
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On Tuesday an officer of tho Government (Mr. Gorman) inspected the appliances of the Kurri Kurri Fire Brigade. A test of the hose and other appliances was made by the firemen, which, it is…
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The Singleton Municipal Council at its meeting on Thursday next will probably consider the question of whom it will support as a country representative on…
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It is stated that the fire had its origin in one of the show windows. An umbrella in this window fell on an electric globe, and immediately afterwards the flames burst out…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Fire in London. Three Lives Lost
A dreadful fire occurred on Monday afternoon, December 20, at Clapham Junction, on the promises of Messrs. Arding and Hobbs, one of the largest drapery and general shops in…
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