Wollongong Fire Brigade
A few minutes after 12 on Wednesday night, or rather New Year's morning, the alarm of fire sounded all over the town. Several of the police force and quite a…
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Great Fire in Melbourne. Loss of £80,000.—Five Firemen Injured
A disastrous fire, which destroyed property roughly valued at about £80,000, occurred shortly before half-past 4 on Thursday morning. At that time smoke…
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London, Wednesday.—A disastrous fire occurred yesterday near Queen Victoria-street, London, and damage o the extent of £500,000 was done before…
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THE following examples, taken from military history, show the effects of infantry firs. Frederick the Great defeated the Austrians at the battle of Czaslan,…
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London, Tuesday Night.—A large fire has taken place at New Westminster, a town of considerable importance in British Columbia, on the west coast of…
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The usual monthly drill in connection with the above brigade was held at the Fire-station, on Thursday night, there being a good muster of firemen present…
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THE Warragul correspondent of the Melbourne "Ago" states that an immense amount of damage has been done by bush fires in that district. The…
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THE Warragul correspondent. of the Melbourne Age states that an immense amount of damage has been done by bush fires in that district. The…
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IN the Maori wars the enemy very seldom attacked an entrenched camp, but they used the most cunning devices to cut off stragglers; and many a poor…
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About 1 o'clock on Thursday morning the fire bell rung out a warning note of the existence of a conflagration, and the firemen and others who were thus aroused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Choice. an Australian Story. in Two Episodes.—episode Ii. Chapter Iv. Between Two Fires
Hector and Flo were together, seated on one of the lower terraces of the Pott's Point garden. A slight stumble and consequent fall on his part, had, a…
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ON Saturday morning a fire broke out in the premises in Crown street occupied by Mrs. G. Fife as a tobacconist's shop. The flames spread very rapidly, and in a short…
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About four o'clock on Saturday morning the fire-bell rang out the alarm that a conflagration was raging, and that the services of the fire brigade were needed. It…
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A SHOCKING burning fatality occurred between 3 and 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning at Hay. A small tenement caught fire at that hour by means a which are unexplained…
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SIR,—Permit me to draw attention (if there is any necessity to do so), to the very unsatisfactory manner in which inquests, particularly fire inquests, are being carried…
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Wollongong is becoming notorious for fires. While in the old days a fire was seldom or never reported, they are of frequent occurrence of last years. Only a…
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WOLLONGONG, Sunday, a fire broke out in the shop of Messrs. M. Gregor, Fair weather and Co grocers and drapers, in Crown-street, between 2 and 3 o'clock this…
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An inquiry relative to the fire that occurred on Sunday morning last in the premises of Messrs. MacGregor, Fair-weather, and Co., was held at the…
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London, Monday.—The town of Meirtngen, in Switzerland, situated on the banks of the River Aar, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire,…
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Shortly after the incoming Melbourne express passed Goondah on Thursday morning, flames were seen to issue from beneath the Pullman car and quickly…
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