Destructive Fire
ON Thursday morning, at about half-past four o'clock, a fire broke out at the cottage occupied by Mr. H. B. Copeland, Crown Lands Agent, near the racecourse, the building being completely…
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Fires & bushfires, 1899
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Destruction of Mr. H. B. Copeland's Residence by Fire
THE most destructive fire experienced in the neighbourhood since the conflagration in Church-street, in March, 1898, offurred early on Thursday…
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IN all towns of any importance whatever, whore there is an aggregation of houses, the first great need is a good water supply and after that a means of putting out fires…
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The warehouse of Webb Bros., Melbourne, merchants was greatly destroyed by fire on Saturday night…
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The Canadian mail which arrived last, week brings details of the terrible the which swept over Pawson City, the metropolis of Kiondyle, on…
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There is something very piquant about the idea of a volcano in the Alps. The flames may come, and provide a epectable almost if not quite unique in character…
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A VERY destructive fire broke out on Friday night at the Golden Gate Hotel, owned by Mr. Francis Burdett Smith, situated at the corner of Hoskins and Doboos-streets, containing…
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The great fire on Coney Island, a New York seaside resort, wiped out a district. Nearly 200 hotels, saloons, bathing pavilions, and other buildings…
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WHEN the Public Works Committee was at Mudgee last week, the Mudgee folk found a person who was ready to act the part the [?]t played for the monkey. According to the…
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DOUBLD - BARREL guns have long been among the accepted types of sporting weapons, and multi-barrel pistols, too, of the so-called pepper-box design of a…
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THE annual meeting of members of the Dabbo Fire Brigade was held at the gasworks on Tuesday evening. Captain Stewart occupied the chair, and there was…
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Early yesterday morning, Government House, Wellington, N.Z., narrowly escaped destruction by fire, Considerable damage was done to the building furniture…
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The western mail train was again on fire on Saturday. When within four or fives miles of Summer Vale, which is the junction where the up train meets the down mail,…
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A case of what is apparently incendiarism was reported to the Goodooga police on Thursday by Constable Snape, who on that day arrived from Tatala. A deliberate…
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Shortly after two o'clock on Wednesday morning, a fire was discovered in Mr. W. J. Northcote's bicycle shop, adjoining the Royal Hotel in Mitchell-street. When the…
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On Tuesday last, before the Coroner, Mr. J. F. Kenyon, P.M. an inquiry was held concerning the origin of the fire which occurred shortly before 2 a.m. on Wednesday…
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At the Municipal Council meeting on Monday evening last, several Aldermen had [?] to say concerning the Bourke Fire Brigade…
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SHORTLY after two o'clock on Wednesday morning (says the " Bourke Herald") a fire was discovered in Mr. W. J. Northcote's bicycle shop, adjoining the Royal Hotel in…
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The difficulty between the Borough Council and the Fire Brigade re the proposed new station has many phases, but in the interest of all…
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Early this morning the Tivoli Theatre was destroyed by fire. The inmates of the hotels adjoining escaped in their nightdresses; the flames from the burning stage…
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