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Fires & bushfires, 1903

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The Fire Brigade and Insurance Companies

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 2

For the time being the difficulty which had arisen between the Wagga Fire Brigade and the Insurance Association has come to an end by the latter retracting from the…

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Local and General News. Wagga Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 2

The financial troubles which threatened the disbanding of the Wagga Fire Brigade have been temporarily overcome by a communication which the secretary,…

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Wagga Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

We have been shown the plans of the proposed new fire station to be erected within the council's triangle on the Esplanade. The building will have a frontage to…

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Fire at Cross Roads

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

Late on Tuesday afternoon Ballymoran Station, situated near the Cross Roads, was the scene of a large conflagration, resulting in the destruction of the…

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Fire at Ballymoran. the Homestead Burnt Down

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

Last Tuesday the homestead at Ballymoran, together with its contents, were destroyed by fire. The building was the property of Mr. P. Moran, of Wagga, and…

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The Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 22 January 1903 · page 2

A meeting was held in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening for the purpose of discussing the question of raising funds to perpetuate the Fire Brigade. The…

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Wagga Fire Brigade. Appeal for Funds

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1903 · page 2

A public meeting, which had been convened by the Mayor (Alderman C. Hardy, sen.), in response to the requisition of a number of petitioners, was held in the Town…

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Sensational Incident at a Fire. the Report Heard Ten Miles Away

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1903 · page 4

A very destructive fire ocourred in Victoria-street, Nhill (Vic.), oa Saturday. The fire originated in a sitting-room at the rear of Mrs. Stephens' fruit shop. The flames…

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Java's "Island of Fire." Terrible to Witness

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 6

The greatest natural wonder in Java, if not in the entire world, is the justly celebrated "Island of Fire." This geological singularly is really a lake of…

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Proposed New Fire Station

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1903 · page 2

The building committee of the Wagga Fire Brigade, consisting of 1st Lieutenant Spies, Fireman Shaw, and Messrs J. W. Edney, J. Greenfield and S. A…

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Wagga Fire Brigade. Adjourned Public Meeting

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1903 · page 2

The adjourned public meeting called by the Mayor (Alderman C. Hardy, senr.), to consider what steps should be taken to supplement the income of the VVagga Fire…

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The Fire Brigade. Public Meeting. Sustentation Movement Initiated

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 January 1903 · page 2

The adjourned meeting to consider the best means of raising funds for the maintenance of the Wagga Fire Brigade was held in the Town Hall last evening, the…

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Big Fire Near London. Colney Hatch Asylum Destroyed. Many Deaths Reported. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 January 1903 · page 2

Early this morning a great fire occurred at the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, in Middlesex, seven miles and a half from London…

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Great Fire Near London. Colney Hatch Asylum Destroyed. Fifty Fatalities. London, Jan. 27

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1903 · page 2

Early this morning a great fire occurred at the Colony Hatch Lunatic Asylum, in Middlesex, seven miles and a half from London…

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Fire at an Asylum

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1903 · page 3

The annexe which caught fire at the colney Hatch Asylum contained 330 [?] and cripples one hundred of them bed-ridden, Thirty-five engines…

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The Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 2

The contract for the construction of a new fire station has been given to Mr. John Gray, the price being £228. The building is to be a substantial brick one,…

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Wagga Fire Brigade

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1903 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

The usual monthly meeting of the Wagga Fire Brigade was held at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening last, there being a fair attendance of members present. Captain…

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Fire at North Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1903 · page 2

A fire occurred at North Wagga on Tuesday evening last at about 10.30 o'clock, the promises being a two-roomed weatherboard cottage owned and occupied by Mrs…

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Queer Scene at a French Fire

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 6 February 1903 · page 5

"I happened to see the start of a fire in Paris," said F. D. Higbee, in the "Buffalo News." "It was a rather ugly blaze in a three-story building. I thought the…

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