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Fires & bushfires, 1894

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 1 March 1894 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the above brigade was held at the Fire Station on Tuesday evening to consider the advisability of tendering a complimentary benefit to the Town Band…

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The Vrrsatilities a Strange Target to Fire At

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 7 March 1894 · page 2

We are in sympathy with the Russions for once. of course, as a rule, we share the Englishman's sympathies, and his suspicions of the people represented by the…

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An Extraordinary Fire

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1894 · page 4

A BALLARAT telegram of Wednesday says: —This evening a fire broke out in several places in Richard's boarding house, Dana-street, but owing to the prompt attention of…

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1894 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the members of the Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at the Fire Station on Tuesday evening. Present—Captain S. J. Mumford, 1st Lieut…

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Fire Brigades' Demonstration at Hay. [By Telegraph.] Hay

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1894 · page 2

THE weather was fine, and the attendance good. Brigades from Hay, Wagga, Albury, and Narandera were present. The hose and reel practice for eight men was won by…

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Sensational Affair near Naraudera. Attempt to Fire a House. Shot, Clubbed, and Bound. Narandera

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1894 · page 2

CUDDELL Siding, 12 miles from Narandera, was, on Wednesday night last, the scene of a sensational occurrence, and the matter occupied the attention of the local Bench…

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 April 1894 · page 3
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

THE usual monthly meeting of the above brigade was held at the Fire Station on Tuesday evening. Present,—1st Lieut. Carpenter, 2nd Lieut. Greenfield, Treas. M…

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Wagga Circuit Court. Civil Sittings. Saturday, April 21. Before Hie Honor Mr. Justice Manning) and a jury of four). a Fire Case. Bardwell v. Gilmour and others

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 2

This was an notion in which the Plaintiff, George Bardwell, sought to recover demages cuased to his property at Woodlands in December last by the alleged…

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Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 April 1894 · page 5

AHOTHER fire broke out on Saturday night, in the premises of Mr. W. H. Richardson, olacksmith, &c., Wallendoon-street. About 12 o'clock two employees on the…

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Wagga Circuit Court. Civil Sittings. Tuesday, April 21. Before His Honor Mr. Justice Manning, and a jury of four). a Fire Case. Bardwell v. Gilmour and others. Fifth Day

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1894 · page 2

This was an action in which the plaintiff, George Bardwell, sought to recover damages for injury caused to his property at Woodlands in December last by the alleged…

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Wagga Circuit Court. Civil Sittings. Thursday, April 26. Before His Honor Mr. Justice Manning, and a jury of four). a Fire Case. Bardwell v. Gilmour and others. Seventh Day

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 2

This was an action in which the plaintiff, George Bardwell, sought to recover damages for injury caused to his property at Woodlands in December last by the alleged…

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A Fire at Sea

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 4

AN exciting incident occurred during the voyage of the barque James L. Hall, which arrived in Hobson's Bay yesterday afternoon, with a cargo of sugar from Mauritius. The…

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Fire in the City. MR J. B. Mack Almost Burnt to Death

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 2

The officer on duty at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Head Station at twenty-seven minutes past 1 o'clock on Thursday morning received two…

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Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 10 May 1894 · page 3
Also in Wagga Wagga Advertiser

The usual monthly meeting of the above was held on Tuesday evening. Present—Capt. Mumford, 1st-Lieut. Carpenter, 2nd-Lieut. Greenfield, Treas, Conway, Firemen…

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Extensive Fire at Tamworth. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 2

The most extensive and most destructive fire witnessed at Tamworth occurred at 4 o'clock this morning, when premises occupied by Cohen and Levy, wholesale drapery…

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Fire at the Brooklyn Tabernacl[?]. Dr. Talmage's Church Destroyed. Two Hundred Thousand Pounds Damage. London, May 14

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 May 1894 · page 2

A DISASTROUS fire occurred in Brooklyn, New York, yesterday, by which Brooklyn Tabernacle, the church of the Rev. Dr. T. de Witt Talmage, who succeeded the late…

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Fires and Earthquakes in the East

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 4

FIRES and earthquakes have been playing great havoc in the far East lately, News by the steamer Ttiyuan states that a fire occurred at Tokyo (Japan) on the 6th ult.,…

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Fire in the Bank of New South Wales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1894 · page 2

A FIRE broke out in the Bank of New South Wales buildings in Fitzmaurice street shortly before 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The fire occurred in a vacant…

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