The Fire Brigades. Necessity for Organisation
In the last, annual report of the Hunter District, Water Supply and Sewerage Board to the Minister for Public Works the necessity for the proper…
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Fires & bushfires, 1902
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 11
Fire at Inverell Two Lives Lost. Inverell
A disastrous fire occurred here at on early hour this morning, when ex-Alderman Charles Wilson and his wife were burnt to death…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—No less than fifty films have been losers, more or less seriously, by the disastrous fire of yesterday in the Barbican quarter of…
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Yet another large and very destructive conflagration has been witnessed in this city. Early on the morning of Sunday, the 13th April, fire was discovered in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. the Much Debated Zoo.—regarding Fire Brigades in the Country.—the Day We Don't Celebrate, But Should.—the Increased Cost of Living.—that Gruesome Cannibalistic Story.—professor Wood Oversteps the Mark. Sydney
The Randwick Council is much concerned over the reported outbreak of plague among the wild animals at the Zoo. At its meeting the other evening the…
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The Fire Brigade Committee of the London County Council report that for some time past experiments have been made by the chief officer, with a view so…
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LONDON, Monday.—A disastrous fire has occurred at Mit Gamr, Egypt, 1000 houses and 200 shops being destroyed…
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Quite an array of medals, etc., are now on view here, furnishing flattering evidence of the success attending the efforts of our local team of fire-fighters during the…
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A fire occurred at Manly which resulted in the death of an aged woman named Martha Fulton, and the destruction of a five-roomed weatherboard cottage…
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News has come by the American mail to the effect that the steamer Buerania, which had completed her loading for Australian ports, had caught fire at New York on March 22. The fire raged in…
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In a steamer for combined passenger and cargo-carrying, recently built at Messrs. Brown's works at Clydebank, the generating plant consists of four combined sets of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hamilton Fire Brigade. Social and Presentation
A social; which is tendered annually by the officers and members of the Hamilton Fire Brigade to the members of the Newcastle West and Wallsend Brigades, took…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The latest intelligence regarding the result of the volcanic eruption at Mount Pelee, in St. Pierre, in the Island of Martinique,…
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About 1 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a cottage situated in a lane off Mitchell-street, Stockton, occupied by Mr. Kendrick. The flames quickly spread…
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The monthly meeting of the New Lambton Brigade was held on Monday evening. There was a good attendance of members, the captain (M. Brogan) occupying the…
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Shortly after 6 o'clock last evening a fire broke out at the residence of Mrs. Stanford, in Webster-street, Hamilton. It was caused by the four-year-old…
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The promptitude of the Stockton Fire Brigade at the fire near Mitchell-street on Tuesday night deserves a word of praise. The steam fire engine was…
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About 3.15 on Thursday morning the township of Minmi was alarmed by the ringing of the fire-bell. In a short time the streets were crowded and the…
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Perhaps the saddest circumstance reo sulting from a bush fire is one which occurred at Winnipeg, Canada, in June last year. Benjamin Spencer ploughed in…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Armour's lard factory at Chicago has been destroyed by fire. Twenty-nine persons were injured,…
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