Destructive Fire
On Wednesday morning last, about 8.30 a.m., a disastrous fire occurred at Gerringong, when a cottage owned by Mrs. Boxsell, and tenanted by Mr. "Bob"…
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The Fire Fiend
The daily paper yesterday contained accounts of a fice at Melbourne, which caused an estimated damage of £1,500,000, and was the greatest are that has ever…
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The Melbourne Fire Brigade, which was found insufficient to cops with the outbreak on Sunday morning, is numerically stronger than the Sydney…
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Your house takes fire. What burns first? The lightest and most inflammable stuff, of course—furniture, doors, shelves, floors, panelling, and other woodwork. If…
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Now that the close of the Parliamentary session has come hon. members are frolic. some, and they will have their little jokes. They had it on Wednesday night at the…
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Your house taken fire. What burns first? The lightest and most inflammable stuff, of course—furniture, doors, shelves, floors, panelling, and other woodwork. If…
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SHORTLY before 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon an old wooden shed at the rear of the Presbyterian Church in Nowra was discovered to be on fire. An alarm was…
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Your house takes fire. What burns first? The lightest and most inflammable Bluff, of course—furniture, doors, shelves, floors, panelling, and other woodwork. If…
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On Tuesday afternoon the townspeople of Wollongong were startled by the ringing of the fire-bell, and very shortly afterwards the engine appeared, manned…
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The annual dinner of the Wollongong Fire Brigade eventuated at Makin's Royal Hotel on Wednesday evening. The tables were laid in Mrs. Makin's usual artistic…
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Your house takes fire. What burns first? The lightest and most inflammable stuff, of course—furniture, doors, shelves, floors, panelling, and other woodwork. If…
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