Dubbo Fire Brigade. Special Meeting
A SPECIAL meeting of the members of the Dubbo Fire Brigade Board was held at the Station on Friday evening to receive the report and balance-sheet. Captain Ritter occupied the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1904
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Bush Fires. Some Big Blazes
Daring Friday and Saturday of list week a bush fire raged in the direction of Suntop, the wind blowing the smoke from it across Wellington. Many statements of the…
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A meeting of the committee of the Fire Brigade Association was held at the Club Hotel on Friday, Mr. G. E. Wise (President) in the chair. The matter of holding a public…
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On Friday last a fire broke out on [?] J. Croxon’s country at Bing[?] about four miles southwest of the town and [?] by the high wind which was…
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A big fire was raging all day on Sunday and through the night, about three or four miles out from Geurie. Messrs. Martin and Cleary suffered heavily in loss of grass…
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ON Saturday a devasting bush fire commenced somewhere between Geurie and Comobella. The damage was chiefly confined to grass and fences…
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THROUGH the darkness the horses travelled with a dash that left but little time for fear. Occasionally visions of what mig[?]t happen if a stray stump or log were met…
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Mr. J. Tont's Melrose Plains homestead, Condobolin district, comprising 17 rooms, was burnt on Saturday…
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The bush fire at Geurie, of which a lengthy account was given in our issue of 20th instant, was still burning on Tuesday on the property known as…
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A fire occurred in Paternoster Row, London, last night, when a coffee shop was destroyed and seven employees perished while trying to escape by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Intelligence. Dubbo Fire Brigade. Special Grant in Aid
Mr. S. PHILLIPS, M.L.A., writes:--A sum of £50 has been granted to the Dubbo Fire Brigade from the vote on last estimates"Special grants in aid of suburban and country fire brigades."…
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The public of Wellington are reminded that their presence is needed at the Fire Brigade sports on Wednesday, and the continental at night, to ensure a huge success…
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A MEETING of the Dubbo Fire Brigade was held on Friday evening, First Lieut. Rich in the chair. Correspondence was read from Mr. S…
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THE monthly meeting of the Fire Brigade was hold on Friday evening, Lieutenant Rich in the chair. An apology was tendered for the absence of Captain Ritter…
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A ruinous conflagration has destroyed three acres of the business section of the city of Rochester, New York. Owing to the water mains being frozen, the…
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"Countryman" writes as follows:—Bush fires are caused from three sources—accident, negligence, or incendiarism. By the first (accident) no one is to blame; but the last…
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At the Dubbo police court on Tuesday George Hughes, M. McDermott and J. Callaghan were charged with leaving at Geurie on 13th February a fire need by them…
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The sports inaugurated to raise funds to erect a fire station for the local Brigade were brought off yesterday (at least half the programme was) in tUe presence of about 300…
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A tire occurred at. Mr. R. Carter's on Wednesday, resulting in the destruction of the woolshed and a number of valuable sheep. Mr. Carter…
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A destructive the at Ballarat occurred last night, the stores of Mr. John Mcl[?]d, wholesale merchant being destroyed. The damage done is estimated at £15,000…
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