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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
322 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 17
There is going to be, or, more correctly, there is already, friction in regard to the working of the coutry fire brigades. Tak[?]ing the case of the Casino Brigades in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON January 1st of this year the new Act governing all the Fire Brigades of this state became law, and as a consequeace the captain of the local Brigade was notitied by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 1.30 o'clock on Wednesday morning an alarm of fire was raised in West Kempsey. It was found that Nicholas Daley's general store was well alight. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after half-past three on Sunday morning a fire occurred in a four-roomed cottege situated in Victoria-street, behind Dr. muller's residence. The outbreak was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The North Coast S.N. Co.'s new steamer Minimbah arrived to-day. During the voyage a fire broke out in number two hold, owing to spontaneous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The [?] of fires in connection with [?] films has been mitigated to some extent by the [?]tion of non-inflamm[?] films, [?] a device was exhibited on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An outbreak of fire occurred at Whiteley's, universal providers, in London. The customers and four thousand assistants were removed without confusion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE question whether the new board of Fire Commissioners has power to take possession without compensation of the property of fire brigades established by voluntary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Captain of the Casino Fire Brigade is in receipt of the two following letters:-- The Chief officer is instructed to inform all members of the Permanent and Volunteer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most disastrous bush fires ever known in Blackwood have swept over the [?]town, Upper Blackwood, Warren, and Lower Blackwood district during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two hundred strikers in a paper factory at Clicy, a suburb of Paris, infuriated by the refusal of fifty comrades, chiefly women and girls, to cease work, lay in wait…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Tuesday afternoon a huge fire broke out at Silverthorne and Adair's foundry, the largest on the fields. The pattern-room, which contained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About eight 'o'clock on Friday morning a fire broke out in the window of Mr. A. J. CLfton's chemist shop at Crookwell. lt was caused by the sun's rays striking…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Just as-we were going to press at 4 a.m. an alarm of fire was given, which proved to be Messrs. Carlton's butcher shop, a wooden building in South Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A drapery shop at waverley was destroyed by fire and two adjoining, shops also badly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Marine Court has recorded a finding that the fire on the barque Penrhyn Castle resulted from the attempt of some person unknown to broach cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →As very briefly reported in Saturday's issue, the butcher's shop occupied by Messrs. Carlton Bros., at South Lismore, was destroyed by fire shortly after 4 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An explosion of benzine fired Fishs' ten storey furniture shop at Chicago. Fifteen victims are dead, including five by jumping from windows…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Carlton Bros. announce by advertisement that oil orders will be filled by the Lismore Butchering Company pending the fitting up of temporary premises…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty-five of the Oekoerito fire victims fied yesterday many [?] found dead in [?] surrounding the fields, whither they had fied in search of water to…
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