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New England · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1905

153 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 8

Big Fire. Fielder & Son's Flour Mills, Tamworth. Tamworth, Friday. By Wire, 2.10 p.m

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 3

The upper story of Messrs. Fielder & Son's flour mill, which is one of the largest and most up-to-date in the…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Fire in Melbourne. Hysterical Girls

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 4

A fire broke out in premises in Melbourne occupied by Kighat and Company and David Storey and Company. The flames' spread with great…

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Fires from Spontaneous Combustion

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1905 · page 3

Damp lampblack will ignite from the sun's rays. The same can be said of cotton waste moist with lard or outer animal oil. Lampblack and a little oil or water…

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Fair "Fire-flghters."

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1905 · page 9

In England they have fire brigades for women. One such is illustrated in the sketch --a brigade which is located at Greenwich, and which is attended by some of the most…

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Disastrous Fires

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 2

Seven children of one family have perished in a fire near Quebec. A great fire at Pisaqua (Chili) has desstroyed a town…

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Engine-driver on Fire

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1905 · page 8

THE passengers waiting on the platform of Willedean Green Station wore horrified to see a goods train stream in with the driver enveloped in flames. He was…

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Plague and Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 5

Over one-third of the township of Pisagus, Chili, recently deserted as plague-stricken, has been burnt down. Many banks were destroyed. Seven…

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Fatal Fire. a Young Man Burned to Death

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 May 1905 · page 4

Mrs. Walls' boarding-house, at Port Macquarie, was destroyed by fire last night. A young man Fred Hall, who was…

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A Traveller's Fire-Escape

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 8

A decidedly Ingenious fire-escape is that depicted in the accompanying pictures. It is primarily intended for tourists and travellers as a quick means of escape from a burning…

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Rails Blaze for Miles

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1905 · page 1

THE Central Railroad of New Jersey was tied up at Somerville for three hours recently as the result of a trolley wire charging the rail with electricity and disarranging…

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Disastrous Fire. LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 5

By a great fire at Freezenveen, Holland, 2 churches and 200 houses were destroyed…

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Destructive Fire. MELBOURNE, Thursday NIGHT

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 5

BUNALI, & Son's agricultural machinery manufacturing works at North Melbourne were destroyed by fire this morning. The stock was valued at bet ween £13,000 and…

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State Fire Insurance

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 2

The crusade against private enterprise is being strongly pressed in the direction of fire insurance. New Zealand has established a State…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 June 1905 · page 4

The Ocean View Hotel, at Alstonville, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night, The inmates had a miraculous…

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Country Towns' Fire Brigades

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 June 1905 · page 4

An influential deputation to-day urged the Chief Secretary to pass a Bill extending the partially-paid firebrigade system to country towns,…

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Country Towns Fire Brigades

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 4

AN influential deputation on Tuesday urged the Chief Secretary to pass a Bill extending the partially paid fire brigade system to country towns The deputation explained that most country…

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Destructive Fire. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1905 · page 5

BY a great fire at Moscow four depots containing provisions for the troops in the Far East have been destroyed…

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Burglars Fire a Bank. One Shot Dead

The Inverell Times · Saturday 1 July 1905 · page 3

At the town of Lancaster, fifty miles west of Montreal, four burglars on the night of 25th April broke into the Merchants' Bank by battering in the doer…

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Fatal Fire. AUCKLAND, N.Z.

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1905 · page 5

HASTIE'S hotel at Fielding (N.Z.) has been destroyed by fire A housemaid named Nellie Curtayne presidand in the flames…

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Outbreak of Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 4

A fire broke out early this morning in a Landry attached to the Children's Hospital, at the Globe Serious results were anticipitated but the…

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