Fire in Kiewa Street
On Sunday the inhabitants of Albury were roused from their afternoon siesta by the cry of “fire.” Although we have had the smote from bush fires on the distant ranges for some weeks before, giving…
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8 stories in Murray's papers
Fire!
How terrible a sensation of alarm is conveyed to the mind, by that simple word of four letters! Written or printed, it attracts our attention, it fastens our notice. Called out in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire Brigade
We observe the members meet on Tuesday next, to elect their Captain and other officers, and to make the necessary arrangements for working the Brigade. It is a matter of so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Volunteer Fire Brigade. [To the Editor of the “Banner.”]
SIR,—Will you favor me with a portion of your space in order to insert, for the general information of the inh[?]bitants, tho copy of two resolutions adopted of a numerous meeting, when the Brigade was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Pit on Fire
One day, in the year 1814, a workman hurried into Stephenson’s cottage with the start[?][?]ng information that the deepest main of the colliery was on fire! He immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire and Crinoline. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times
SIR,—notice With much regret the melancholy loss which the obliging landlord" of the Junction Hotel, Moama, has sustained; and, .under the impression that it happened as nine cases out of ten since crinoline was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times
Sir,—It is an old and hacknied saying, that “we cannot have too much of a good thing,” which must be—and I opine is ever received—in an allegorical rather than a literal sense. We ate seldom content, and rarely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destruction of the “Bunyip” Steamer by Fire
A RECENT Melbourne telegram reported that this vessel with 500 bales of wool had been destroyed by lire last week near Mr. Chambers’ station on the Murray. The fire broke out while the crew…
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