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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires
27 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2
THE inquest on the recent fire which destroyed part of the local School of Arts, was held on Friday last in the Court House before District Coroner Badgery and a jury of twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE annual gathering in connection with the Bowral Volunteer.Fire Brigade was celebrated at. the Fire Station on Monday evening last. The Moss Vale firemen had been invited to attend but failed to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE annual meeting in connection with the Bowral Fire Brigade was held on Monday evening last. After the usual monthly meeting proceedings had been gone through the annual election of officers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A MEETING of the Bowral Fire Board was held on Monday lost, Aid. A. Stephens (mayor) presided. Correspondence was received from Captain of the Brigade stating that he and several of the firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday evening last about 11.30 a fire broke out at the residence of Mrs. E. A. Comer, Station-st. The room in which the fire broke out was a spare room occasionally used as a bedroom. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The large bush fires on the pyronces ranges caused great damage. A number of selectors have been burnt out, losing everything, including hoses,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Sunday morning Mr. E. Viles of Mosa Vole had the misfortune to lose by fire about 5 tone of hay valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne, Sunday.-The Toongabbie bush fire, montion of which outbreak was made on Friday night, has been devastating the surrounding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the Bowral Fire Board was held on the 5th instant, the Mayor presiding. The minutes of the previous meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONG before the general introduction of petroleum as an illuminating medium, the oil was locally used on the shores of the Caspian Sea for that purpose, but as means of transport were at that time scarce and deficient in the Russian Empire,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Monday evening last the Bowral Volunteer Fire Brigade held a social in the Oddfellows' Hall, Bowral. There were fully 20 couples present. Mr. W. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night, just' before 8 o'clock, when the streets were beginning to get a bit lively, the firebell was rung. The firemen in a very short space of time had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We regret to learn that a somewhat serious fire occurred on Thursday night on the homestead of Mr. George McAnnally at Yarrunga. We hear…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Bowral fire-fighters held high revel in the local School of Arts on Tuesday night. This was the maiden effort, of the brigadiers in the direction of public Terpsichorean entertainment, having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of the above Board was held on 29th ult. Present—Ald. Stephens (mayor), Ald Mackenzie, Mr H. E. Wickham, and Mr Ebb. Davis, secretary. Correspondence relating to alarms of fire received…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great fire has occurred at the Hoboken Dock, New York. Several of tho Norddoutsche Lloyd steamers were partially burned. The damage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further accounts of the great fire At the Hoboken Docks, New York, show that it was much more disastrous than first reports indicated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MDLLE. DE STAAL, daughter of the Russian Ambassador, was married to Count Alexis. Davidoff at the Ruusian Chapel, Welbeck-st., London, on Monday, April 30. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne. Sunday.— Since the Australasian mine disaster nearly twenty years ago, when 22 men were lost through the inburst of water into the workings, no tale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the invitation of Mr. Arthur Griffith, M.P., patent agent, a number of interested persons assembled on the old quarry between Kent and Sussex…
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