Fire Brigade Novelties
Birmingham has two excellent devices for preventing its engines from running short of water. At several of the street corners it has…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 10
A Clock That Lights the Fire
One of the most ingenious as well as useful contrivances over invented is a clock with attachments that not only wake a person at night, but also strike a light in the room and…
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The inquest opened last week at Minmi by the district coroner, Mr. G. C. Martin, respecting a series of fires recently in premises occupied by…
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LONDON, Monday.—The offices of the Home Life Insurance Company, Broadway, New York, were destroyed by fire yesterday…
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Shortly after 11 o'clock last night a fire was discovered in the tobacconist's shop in the Glebe, kept by Arthur Conningham, the cricketer. The flames were speedily subdued, but not…
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The members of this brigade held their annual meeting last evening in the meeting room at the fire station. In the absence of the president, Mr. J. L. Fegan M.P.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Merewether. Fire Brigade Social
The members of this brigade met at a social gathering on Friday evening at Mr. Churchhill's hotel, Glebeland, the occasion being a send-off to one of their number,…
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The Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington, was destroyed by fire last night. Two boarders, named Mr. Green, of Sydney, and Mr. Blandford, were burned to death. There were 41…
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An alarm of fire was sounded last evening shortly after nine o'clock, and quite a sensation was caused, as it was reported that a fire had broken out at the A.J.S…
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The "North China Herald," referring to the fire in the native city of Hankow on the 1st October, says that the destruction was even greater than at first estimated. The…
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After a lapse of over three years the sealed-off workings in the Seaham Colliery have been opened, and the final stage reached in connection with the unfortunate underground…
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