Proprietary Mine Fire. Broken Hill
The condition of affairs at the Proprietary Mine is improving, success having attended the efforts of the management to block off the affected area. The result…
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Fires & bushfires, 1906
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Proprietary Mine Fire. Broken Hill
So successful has been the work of blocking off the fire in the affected area in the Proprietary Mine that extra miners were able to go below this morning, some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Holmesville. Fire Brigade
At a meeting held to discuss the advisability of forming a fire brigade in Holmesville, volunteers were called for, and some 20 young men vounteered their…
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Every important harbour or commercially-used river should have its floating fire engine, and the greater the possible necessity the better it should be…
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The final meeting of Fire Brigade Benefit Committee was held at the council chambers on Monday evening, when a statement was submitted by the secretary,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on a Steamer
At about a quarter to eleven o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the forepeak of the steamer Thodo Fagelund. which was lying at No. 14 crane at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Sydney. Two Warehouses Burned. Grand [?]El in Danger. Sydney
In the early hours of Saturday morning the block of fine buildings situated between Clarence and Kent streets, south of Erskine-street, was the scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. the New State Arms.—why Not National Symbols Racy of the Soil?—something About Firebreak Walls.—insurance Policies for Employees Thrown Out by Fire.—could We Repeat the Show in England—in Picture ?—Does the Law Gain on Our Respect? Sydney
The new State Arms will be more valuable than the last ones in that they will be registered. Apart from this the design is retrograde, being neither heraldic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Sydney Letter. That Great Debate.—something Mr. Holman Missed.—an American to Write Up Australia.—what This Visit Suggests.—the "Window-dresser" of Literature.—how a Second Great Fire Was Averted. Sydney
Though no vote was taken on the debate on Socialism by Messrs. Reid and Holman, it is quite safe to say that the honours were with the latter, and this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Melbourne. Melbourne
A large fire occurred in Richmond to-night, when two business places were destroyed, and three others slightly damaged. The fire originated in the bicycle shop of…
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LONDON, Friday.—A great fire has taken place at Luang Probang, a populous city of the Laos State, in Indo-China. Five hundred houses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swansea. Fire in a Dwelling House
A fire occurred at Swansea on Friday morning, about one o'clock, when a four-roomed house, owned by Mr. Frank Butterworth, an artist, was totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Paddington. Building Destroyed. Sydney
The premises of Messrs. Pearson and Co., builders, contractors, and fuel merchants, in Paddington, were destroyed by fire to-night. The outbreak was…
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At half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon the roof of No. 75 Bolton-street, a detached brick building, formerly used as an hotel, but now in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Alsace. Customs Block Aid. London
A fire broke out in the village of Huningen, Alsace. The villagers were unable to cope with the flames, and the fire brigade at Basle,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Sydney. Gibbs, Bright, and Coy's Premises Sydney
The Premises of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., shipping, insurance, and general agents, 37 to 41 Pitt-street, on the Circular Quay side of Bridge-street, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Earthquake San Francisco Overwhelmed. the Golden City in Ruins. Buildings Shattered and Overthrown. Fire Completes the Devastation. Great Loss of Life. London
A terrible earthquake has occurred at San Francisco. Half of the city is in ruins. It is reported that there have been a thousand deaths in the city…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Woolwich
LONDON, Friday.—A fire occurred yesterday morning in an ordnance store building at Woolwich Arsenal, the building being destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Sydney. Sydney
The two top floors of the four-storied rear wing of the National Buildings, 250A Pitt-street, occupied by Messrs. Francis Bell and Co., late Edge and Edge,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Narrabri. Great Damage Done. Narrabri
A fire occurred here this morning, the origin of which is unknown. An entire block in the man street was burned to the ground, nothing remaining but a stack of…
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