Hens in a Fire Pump
The following is a true story of a town which owns a small fire apparatus :-- Outside the fire limits is a small community that, on petition,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1905
165 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 5 of 9
A Bishop on Fire
A small sensation was produced the other night at St. Thomas' Church, North Sydney, where a large congregation witnessed the rather unusual spectacle of a bishop on fire…
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THERE is a device now on the market for the prevention of fires among grass that is said to answer well. It is the invention of a Victorian. It consists…
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AN outbreak of fire was discovered at the Sandford Merthyr colliery, Maitland district, at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning. The flames and smoke…
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Lake Doniphan, in Kansas, provides about the most remarkable skating that is to be had in the country. No torchlights or lamps of any kind have to be…
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In Nagasaki, Japan, there is a firework [?]naker who manufactures pyrotechnic birds of great size that, when exploded, sail in a life-like manner through the air, and…
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There is a device now on the market for the prevention of fires among grass that is said to answer well. It is the invention of a Victorian. It consists…
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At about a quarter to five o'clock on Friday morning an empty four-roomed weather board cottage at the corner of Victoria street, opposite the show…
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Tattersalls hotel, Peak Hill, owned by Mr W J Paton, was destroyed by fire last Tuesday night, between 9 and 11 o'clock. The fire was first…
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ABOUT 9 o'clock on Tuesday night dense volumes of smoke were noticed issuing from one of the back bedrooms of Mr. W. J. Paton's Tattersall's…
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THE extraordinary growth of grass has naturally caused, much fear of bush fires, but few people expected that the flames would be working much destruction till the…
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WRITES a correspondent:—Several bush fires are burning in the Tomingley district. Accurate details are not yet available, but a smoky haze has…
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IN a con variation with Mr M. Coultson, of Bruie, Plains, we learned that already bushfires have occurred in that locality, occasioned by the lighting of…
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THIS year points to more bush fires in our district than any year which we have yet experienced. Looking to the cause of such vast destruction we find that the trouble…
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THE Condobolin Farmers and Settlers' Association has decided to establish a Bush Fire Brigade to combat outbreaks of fire, which, in view of the abnormal…
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Mrs. HAWKESLEY desires to contradict the statement that she has received financial compensation in connection with the recent fire. Mrs. Hawkesley…
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WRITES a Balderodgery correspondent:—The grass and herbage of this neighbourhood are of so great height that unless we have only a modisum of rain…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Wanted—A Fire Brigade
FOLLOWING up our remarks which appeared in last week's issue regarding the formation of a Fire Brigade or, failing that, the establishment of an…
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