The Fire Brigade
MR. J. HOLMES presided at a meeting in the Council Chambers on Friday evening, convened for the purpose of electing a captain and enrolling new members for…
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Fires & bushfires, 1894
24 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2
Early Fires
An eunce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Do not defer putting up stoves until there are cases of cold, rheamatism, etc., to bo cured During the first fall days…
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By the midday train from Syduey on Thursday there was brought to Bowral in capital order a bran-new fire engine, manufactured by Shand,…
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THE engine has come, and insurance premiums ought to go down rapidly. It has been, out for practice down by the creek. Its first appearance in public was…
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A COMMITTEE meeting of the above was held at the Fire Station on the evening of Wednesday last. Present: Messrs. R. A. Dobbin (chair), Rice, Bissaker Hendry,…
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A method of analysing mixtures of two gases of different densities by Bound vibrations has been desoribed to the French Academy of Sciences by M. E. Hardy. The…
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A COMMITTEE meeting was hold at the Fire Stationon Monday evening last. Present:: Messrs. John Holmes (chair), Rice, Dobbin, Halcrow, Harrison, J. Stokes, Hendry,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Bowral. Empty 4-Roomed Weatherboard House. Burned Down. the Fire Brigade to the Rescue
IT is on race occasions that the residents of Bowral are aroused by the cry of "Fire! Fire!" but to some on Thursday morning it came like a thunderbolts…
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Fire requires, air; therefore, on its appearance every effort should be made…
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THIS well-known private boarding establishment was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday night. It seems that the ocoupier (Mr. T. Dawson) at a late hoar was writing at a small Gipsy table, and on…
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The amount hold at risk is Sydney and suburbs by the fire insurance companies 31st December last totalled £59,814,701. Of the business done by the 43 fire insurance offices the Mercanstile…
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MR A. D. BADGERY (coroner) held an inquiry on Wednesday morning, at the Court-house, Bowral, as to the cause of the fire which destroyed "The Retreat"…
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The proposal brought forward by Alderman Samuel at Monday night's Council meeting to establish a Fire Brigade ia Moss Yale is one that should receive the…
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A good supply of kindling wood Should be used in starting the fire The coal used should be in small places, thereby giving more surface for the fire to act on, If a…
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THE largest gas well in the Ohio or Indiana fields was drilled out at the Horace Farm, west of Fostoria, on 14th May. The lease is owned by the Chicago Oil Company, and…
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The following graphic is a description of the fire at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, which, was written by a daughter of Mr. John Woods, of Manly:—…
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AN alarm was given about half-past 7 on Monday night, and within two minutes the engine was fully manned and on the way for the fire, as there were 12 firemen on…
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Information has been received of disastrous forest tires which have occurred in the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota in the United States…
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Thousands of people gathered on Monday in the vicinity of the Metropolitan Fire Station for the purpose of witnessing the funeral of the unfortunate fireman Edward…
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At about half—past 10 o'clock on Saturday night a fire was discovered in the forage room attached to the West Goulburn parsons. Canon Scares was away at…
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