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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires
96 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 5
The only opportunity for holiday making provided for Queanbeyan folk was the sports in aid of the Queanbeyan Hospital organised by the local Fire Brigade. These came…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE committee of the above met last night to settle finances. The balance sheet submitted by the treasurer showed a credit of £7 4s 8d. Owing to the very poor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST night, shortly after eight o'clock, a fire broke out in Mr. Allan O'Neill's livery stables, Rutledge-street, but through the prompt auction of some members of the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three fires occurred yesterday in the city and suburbs but none were serious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What might have been a serious outbreak of fire occurred at the stables of Mrs W. G. O'Neill, corner of Crawford and Rutledge streets on Monday evening. Some men who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday the grass in one of the plots of the garden belonging to Mrs Lee, in Crawford Street, caught on fire, presumably from some natural but unknown cause…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fire which destroyed the Oriental, Welling (N.Z.) on the 24th November, aud resulted in the death of Mr. W. I. Crawford, who was at one time a master at Newington…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The case against the blind man Bottrell, for setting fire to his wife, also blind, came off in Sydney on Friday. The evidence was not very conclusive in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cowra, Tuesday.—The stock Inspector for this district specially cautions farmers from using phosphorus for the destruction of rabbits during the hot weather, as it is of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A grass fire occurred at the paddock be longing to Mr James Pike, situated near the Racecourse, on Tuesday. The outbreak was noticed soon after the passing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A dreadful scene of death and destruction was witnessed in Philadelphia at the appalling fire which broke out in a furniture factory—nine storeys high—belonging to Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Queanbeyan Volunteer Fire Brigade held a meeting last night re the proposed Band. Mr. J. Jordan made a proposal for acting as bandmaster, and his terms were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Excuse me, sir, but that’s a fine legal point that has just come up in West Virginia.” “What point is that?”…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday night last the members of the Fire Brigade assembled at the station to entertain Mr. Jas. McDonald, who has occupied the position of Treasurer of the Brigade[?] since its inception, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out close to town yesterday morning near the residence of Mr. John Lea[?]y in a padlock of Simpson's in which two stacks of hay were destroyed, one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING the past week reports have reached us from various localities in this district of destructive fires breaking out in the long, dry, and highly-combustible grass which…
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