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South Coast · Fires & bushfires
39 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
At about 6 a.m. on Sunday moraine last a fettler on the railway line discovered a fire in the waiting room at the Shellharbour railway station. A hole about two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,âThe following particulars re fire brigades at this juncture may be of some interest to the townspeople, I therefore forward them for general information.â…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Queensland commandant (Colonel Lyster) says that a cable has been received to the effect that there had been another dastardly attempt to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Queensland commandant (Colonel Lyster) says that a cable has been received to the effect that there had been another dastardly attempt to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ON Thursday evening there was a good attendance in the hall of the School of Ari[?], at the meeting re the inauguration of a Fire Brigade for Bega. Mr. H. O. T…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,â-As the above Fire Brigade has been [?]iriy launched on the sea of public cirticism it might be as well to consider come of the suggestions which have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The little 3 years old daughter of Mrs. Tom Stevens, Dapto, Has the victim of a serious accident through fire on Wednesday (reports the Illawarra “Mercury”)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PROBABLY the best fire-extinguishing liquid is aqua ammonia, without any addition whatever. We have personally had experience with the almost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LAME reports of the outbreak show that the con[?]gration had an accidental [?] The [?] broke out at 11 [?] in the morning [?] a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. S. W. Bates' large barn, with bails and shed attached, at Central Tilba, containing about four tons of hay, buggies, sulky, saddles, harness,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SINCE the burning of the city of Chi[?]ago in 1871, there has been no conflagration approaching in magnitude that which at the end of last week made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.âI enclose copy of a [?] addressed to the Sydney press in regard to plague, which may also have seem interest for your readers.âYours, etc…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the steamer Begs, belonging to the Illawarra S.N. Company, was on her way down Sydney harbor on Monday night an outbreak of fire occurred on board. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the steamer Bega, belonging to the Illawarra S.N., Company, was on her way down Sydney harbor on Monday night an outbreak of fire occurred on board. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New York journalist, recounting conversations he has had bad with members of the crew of the Naval Militia ship Yankee, which took part in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE fire started about 11 o'clock in the morning at Hall, a town just opposite to Ottawa, in a boarding house in the centre of the town,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly after 9 o'clock yesterday morning an outbreak of fire was discovered on the premises occupied by Mr C. Murray at the corner of Berry and North streets. A member of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly before 9 o'clock yesterday morning an old stone building with weatherboard gables and shingled roof, occupied as a residence by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the initiatory meeting at Kiama for the establishment of a volunteer fire brigade there, the Mayor (Mr. S. S. Wells) said in an introductory…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-morrow (Wednesday) night a very important meeting so far us Bega is concurred will be held in the School of Art when those favorable to the…
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