A Cheaper Rate of Fire Insurance. Kiama Agents Called Together
The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1902 · page 2
ON Monday night last a number of agents representing the various insurance companies in Kiama attended a meeting at the request of Mr. P. C. Davies, who as captain…
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The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 16 April 1902 · page 2
ON Monday night the adjourned meeting of local fire insurance agents, convened by Mr. P. C. Davies (captain of the Kiama Fire Brigade) for…
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The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 16 April 1902 · page 3
PERHAPS the saddest circumstance resulting from a bush firm is one which occurred in Winnipeg, Canada, In June last year. Benjamin Spencer ploughed…
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The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 18 April 1902 · page 3
THE adjourned meeting to which the insurance agents in Kiama were invited was held on Monday night last. Replies from nine companies were handed in. viz.,…
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The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1902 · page 3
A GREAT fire recalling the Jewin-street confiagration of some years ago, broke out on Tuesday morning in the Barbican, E.C. Three warehouses on the south and two on…
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The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1902 · page 3
A TERRIBLE confiagration occured early on Tuesday morning, half of Otho-street, the principal business thoroughfare of [?] being destroyed. The damage consequent…
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The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 3 May 1902 · page 1
"Don't you think we've been counting long enough to get married ?" said Jim Cranston to his sweetheart, pretty Madge Worsley, as they wended their way he…
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Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 7 May 1902 · page 2
A letter was received from the Fire Brigade Board re the rate requested at the council meeting on Friday night. Aid. Kirby moved "That the council…
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Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 17 May 1902 · page 2
A fire occurred it the South Bulli jeffy early on Tuesday morning, by which the sea-end was damaged to the extent of £700 or £800. Owing to the boisterous westerly…
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The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 17 May 1902 · page 1
The opening chapter introduces the reader to pretty M[?], we[?]ley, a fartary girl employed at Messrs. wef[?] and Warpley's in Parl-lane, Lee is, and fim Cranston, her sweetheart also engaged at a [?]…
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The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 24 May 1902 · page 1
The opeaing chapter [?] Madge [?] a factory [?] Wett and Warpley's, in Park-lame, Lee is and [?]…
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Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 28 May 1902 · page 2
A fire occurred at Dapto on Sat[?] morning last in a cottage owned by [?] Marshall and occupied by a family [?] Evans. The fire started in a bed [?]…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 31 May 1902 · page 14
A disastrous fire, which resulted in the total demolition of Hamilton's Sanatorium Hotel, occurred at Robertson at an early hour on Thursday morning…
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 7
In the Bulli Court House, on Monday, Mr, C. C. Russell (coroner) and a jury held an inquiry as to a fire in the South Bulli mine. Mines…
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Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 2 July 1902 · page 2
About 11 o'clock on Sunday morning a four-roomed cottage built of weather bords and slabs, with a shingle roof situated at West Dapto, and owned and…
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The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 5 July 1902 · page 1
Actingin necordance with his preconceived idea, Jack Hawthore made it his business to call in at the hostetries reserted to by the Park-lane [?]…
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The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 2
THE second annual meeting of the Kiama Volunteer Fire Brigade was held on Tuesday night last. Captain P. C. Davies presided, there being a…
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Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 2
An inquest was held before the coroner (Mr. C. U. Russell) on Tuesday, concerning the cause of the fire which totally destroyed Mr. Andrew Thompson's residence at…
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The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 6 August 1902 · page 3
ON Sunday afternoon last, a fourroomed weather-board cottage in Shoalhaven Street was totally destroyed by fire, together with most of the contents…
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The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 8 August 1902 · page 2
AN inquiry was held on Monday before the district Coroner and a jury of 12, into the cause of the fire which destroyed a four-roomed wooden cottage in Shoalhaven…
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