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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1906

89 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 5

Soldiers Baptism of Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 4

A commanding officer [?] taking his forces into action. He sent forward a small party of [?]er to make gaps in a rail fence to avoid the…

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Combined Town Band and Fire Brigade Continental

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 2

The continental promoted by the members of the Braidwood Town Band and Fire Brigade combined eventuated on Thursday night last. Punctually at half-past 7 the Band…

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Fire Brigade

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

A GENERAL meeting of members of the Queanbeyan Volunteer Fire Brigade was held on Friday night last. There was a good attendance,…

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Town Band and Fire Brigade Continental

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

The promoters of the above continental must assuredly feel highly gratified at the undoubted success attained their first attempt to cement the union…

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Fire Brigades Conference

The Age · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 6

OF the several papers read before the Interstate Fire Brigades Conference in Sydney on Tuesday, probably the most interesting and instructive was that of…

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An Avalanche of Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 2

Amongst the most awe inspiring spectacles' ever witnessed upon this earth a great forest or heath fire takes a foremost place. Originating perhaps from a carelessly thrown…

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The San Francisco Fire. Graphic Account by a Lady Visitor

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 3

Miss Evelyn Phillips, sister of Mr. H. Phillips, chief clerk the Goulburn Lands Office, who was in San Francisco when the great earthquake occurred,…

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Setting Fire to a School

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 6

An Inquiry was held at the Half-time Public School Crogan's Plain, on Friday last, before the Deputy—Coroner, Mr. J. H. Montague, to inquire as to how the said…

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Fire Brigade Ball

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 3
Also in The Queanbeyan Leader

THE fifth annual ball in aid of the Queanbeyan Volunteer Fire Brigade was held last night in the Protestant Hall. There was a good attendance,…

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Fire Brigade Ball. an Unqualified Success

The Age · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 2

THE annual ball in aid of the funds of the Queanbeyan Fire Brigade was held in the Protestant Hall last night, and was an unqualified success. This…

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Fire Brigade Ball

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 2

THE Queanbeyan Fire Brigrade's fifth annual ball was held in the Protestant Hall on Monday night last, and was a…

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Three Steamer Fires

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1906 · page 2

The Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Gothic, which was beached on Thursday at Plymouth in consequence of an out-break of fire, is now lying on an even…

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Queanbeyan Volunteer Fire Brigade

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 2

A GENERAL meeting of the members of the Brigade was held at the fire station on Wednesday night, there was a good attendance…

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In the Fire a Fea[?] Necklaze

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 5

The [?] “Tag blatt” relates the [?] lowing story [?] a lady of independent means returning home in [?] from an extering party [?]…

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Automobile Fire Engines

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 4

In "Cassier's Magazine" is an article on the use of motors for the propelling of fire-engines. Up to the present, the motor fire-engine is…

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Double Ordeal. a Fire-murder Case

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 22 June 1906 · page 4

The trial at Norwich Assize of Ro[?] Kowen on the charges of murdering her husband and afterwards attempting to destroy the body by fire ended yesterday…

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Fire

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 2

Town residents were rudely awakened on Thursday morning, at about half-past 1, by the ringing of the fire bell. Constable McCarron…

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Fire at Queanbeyan

The Age · Friday 13 July 1906 · page 2

A LITTLE after one o'clock yesterday morning, the clanging of the fire-bell roused the residents of Queanbeyan from their slumbers and half-dressed…

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Fire Inquest

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 2

An inquest was held at the Railway Station, on Friday, re the fire which totally destroyed the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Waters on Thursday…

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