What to do in case of Fire
IN case of either a chimney or a room catching fire the first thing to be thought of is to exclude all draughts, for it is certain that the slightest…
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Fires & bushfires, 1883
100 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 5
Fatal Fire at Queenscliff
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A shocking occurrence is reported from Queenscliff, where a fire broke out this evening. It consumed a two-roomed house lately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Benefit to Newcastle Fire Brigade. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)
SIR,—Will you kindly allow me through the medium of your popular journal, to call attention to a circumstance in connection with the late benefit tendered to the…
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LISMORE, Saturday.—The inquiry into the late fire closed on Thursday night, after sitting four days. The jury found that Stock's auction mart was the place where…
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A TELEGRAM from Muswellbrook to the Echo says:—A calamitous fire occurred here on Monday night, when Cobb and Co.'s stables were totally destroyed by fire. Four very…
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LONDON, June 20.—A destructive fire at Amsterdam has destroyed the Government dockyard and one man-of-war, which were completely burned…
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LONDON, June 27.—An extensive fire has occurred at St. Petersburg. Two million roubles worth of property was destroyed…
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Almost simultaneously with the alarm given by the Newcastle fire bell, the inhabitants of the Junction and Burwood were startled by the clamour of the…
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NEWCASTLE, on Saturday night, added one more laurel to her unfortuntely possessed crown as Queen city of New South Wales with respect to disastrous fires. About…
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THE demolition of effects in connection with last Saturday night's fire at Messrs. J. Ash and Sons' Steam Sawmills, Blanc-street, was so complete as to leave little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Late Fire. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—Seeing in to-day's issue a report of the late disastrous [?] wherein you remark that "after a respectfully long interval" three guns were fired from the signal…
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THE annual meeting of members of the Newcastle City Fire Brigade was held in the new engine shed, in Newcomen-street, on Thursday evening. The honorary superintendent presided, and the election of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. the Late Fire. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR—I think yourself and the public will, on reading the following, agree with me that very little encouragement is given to volunteers at fires. Last Saturday night…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—At a meeting of delegates of seventeen Fire Brigades, it has been resolved to memorialise the Colonial Secretary as to the urgent necessity of a Fire…
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AT about a quarter 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon lost the fire bell rang out an alarm peal. The inhabitants for the first few moments were anything but excited over it, as the bell has rang so many times of…
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FROM the appended letter, it will be seen that the services of the above brigade are appreciated and recognised by some in the community:—…
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A MEETING of the friends and sympathisers of Mr. John Hughes and family was held at Stokers' Hotel, on Wednesday evening, and very fairly attended. Mr. Jacob Jones was voted to the chair. He…
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A REQUISITION, numerously signed, is to be presented to the Mayor, asking him to convene a public meeting for the purpose of considering the best means of increasing the members of the Lambton Fire Brigade,…
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AT the Lambton Police Court, on Friday (before Mr. Perrott, P.M.) David Thom was brought up in custody, and charged on suspicion with having wilfully and maliciously set fire to the shop and…
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On June 15, shortly before 2 o'clock, a fire broke out in Theatre-lane, Inverness, in a dwelling-house [?]owned and occupied by Mr. Hugh Allison, which resulted not only in completely gutting the building,…
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