The Fire Brigade Act
Replying to inquiries, Messrs. G. R. MecLaurin, and J. Cusack, M.'sL.A., and H. A. Paech, forwarded letters to last night's meeting of the Albury Municipal…
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Fire-engine for Albury Lighter Engine Favored
The following letter from the secretary to the Board of Fire Commissioners was read at last night's meeting of the Albury Municipal Council.—Referring. to…
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A meeting of the Bush Fire Brigade was held in the Public Hall last Saturday night, when there was a large and enthusiastic meeting of local residents…
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The upper portion of Jesus College, Oxford, was burnt by fire which was due to a defective flue. The undergraduates escaped without injury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Twenty-five Burnt to Death. in Boston Lodging House Fire. Desperate Leap for Life. Boston (Mass.)
A shocking fire occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning at a lodging house in the south end of Boston. A large number of male boarders were…
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On Saturday afternoon a small grass fire was starred in Albert-street, apparently by someone throwing down a lighted match. Fortunately the blaze…
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Wireless reports have been received here to the effect that a steamer named the Rio Grande took fire at sea, and that the passengers were rescued by the Brit…
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A sensation occurred at the Ararat Lycema Theatre on Monday night, through a cinematograph film catching fire. A biograph entertainment was in progress,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supposed Wireless Hoax. Alleged Fire at Sea. New York
A wireless message received from a United States revenue cutter states that the Rio Grande was not on fire and that there were not any passengers aboard the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Mudgee Flour Mills. Loss Over £16,000. SYDNEY
At Mudgee this morning the Great Western Flour Milling Company's mills took fire, and one building and plant, valued at £16,000. were destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fire at Yarrawonga. Early Morning Blaze. Yarrawonga
Party this morning a six-roomed weatherboard shop and dwelling, occupied by Mr. John Green, hookseller and ladies' draper, was gutted by a fire which had…
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On Monday afternoon a fire broke out on Mr C. G. Knight’s property at Barooga (says the Cobram “Courier”) and before it was quelled…
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On Wednesday afternoon what may have been a very serious fire for Rutherglen was checked through the fine work of the local firemen, under…
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Suffragettes were in evidence during the visit of Mr. Asquith to Manchester. They burned down tho Rusholme Exhibition Hall at South Manchester, the damage…
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A lodging house in the South end of the city was completely destroyed by fire last night, with great loss of life. When the outbreak, the cause of which…
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At an early hour this morning the upper portion of Jesus College, at Oxford University, was destroyed by fire. The undergraduates occupying the…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Promptly Extinguished Fire. at Wodonga Yesterday
All outbreak of fire, which was luckily quelled before any serious damage resulted, occurred in the residential portion of the Bank of Victoria buildings,—…
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Early on Sunday morning a fire which caused considerable damage to the mises of Messrs. Brooks, Robinson, Co, Ltd., glass merchants, in Maffra street,…
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New was brought into Corowa on Friday evening that Mr. M. Monahan's commodious residence at Ringwood had been destroyed by fire that afternoon,…
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Two floors of Mcaughlin, Stone and Co's big hardware store in Kent street, Sydney, were gutted by fire on Saturday afternoon. The stock on the first and…
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