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The United Brigades' competition was concluded at Sandhurst to-day. The alarm and rush event was won by the kew Brigade, Beechworth being 2nd, and Essendon 3rd. The ladder and hose practice for 100 yards was also…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE excellence of the discipline maintained in the public schools in the colony is a very marked feature in their great and unquestioned efficacy, and has frequently formed the subject for complimentary comment by…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At about half-post 8 on Saturday night a fire, supposed to have been caused by a candle coming in contact with the bed-curtains, occurred in a private dwelling at 39, Cleveland-street, occupied by Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 11 o'clock on Friday night a fire broke out on the premises occupied by a bootmaker named Wark, resulting in their destruction. The fire extended to Oswald's blacksmith shop and a Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An extensive fire broke out at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning on the premises of Messrs. Govan and Co., storekeepers. The buildings and stock, estimated at over £2000, were in twenty minutes reduced to ashes,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cottage caught fire at Queenscliff early this morning. A number of the Permanent Artillerymen under the command of an officer turned out, pulled down the dividing wall, and thus prevented…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At about 5.o'clock this morning a fire broke out at 332, Bourke-street, Surry Hills, in a grocers shop, kept by James Kelligrew. A quantity of groceries, &c., in the front shop, and the contends of a back…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday morning at 5 o'clock a house, 332, Bourke-street, Sorry Hills, occupied by James Kelligrew, grocer, was found to be on fire. The front part of the shop…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire broke out about 10 o'clock on the night of the 2nd February in a six-storied warehouso in Portland-street, Manchester, the heart of the mercantile portion of the city. The warehouse was occupied by Mr. James Hamilton and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday night, at about 7 o'clock, while Mr. Alexander Fraser, boatbuilder, was passing in the vicinity of No. 1 shoot, he perceived smoke issuing from underneath. On making a closer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The election of members to form the Fire Brigade Board for the current year, was completed as far as possible to-day, and the board now consists of the following gentlemen:—Mr. Charles Bown,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After nine days' inquiry into the late fire which destroyed Barber's Freemason Hotel, the jury returned a verdict that the premises were wilfully set on fire, and that there was sufficient evidence to point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The election for representatives for the Fire Brigades Boards, according to the Fire Brigades Act, was proceeded with this morning. Mr. Church, J.P., was re-elected…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire broke out about 10 o'clock on the night of the 2nd February in a six-storied warehouse in Portland-street, Manchester, the heart of the mercantile portion of the city. The warehouse was occupied by Mr. James Hamilton and…
Continued on Trove, page 589 →THE success that has attended St. Joseph's Building Society induced several gentlemen connected with that institution to consider the advisability of forming an Insurance Company, and when it…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →This case, which was a charge against John Manning for, in company with some person or persons unknown, having fraudulently set fire to a house, his own…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The United Fire Brigades' competition was continued at Sandhurst to-day in the presence of a large assemblage. The following are the results of the chief events:—Engine practice: Corowa (New South Wales)…
Continued on Trove, page 592 →MELBOURNE, Friday night. -- A telegram just received from Lorne states that a large vessel in sight, bearing east-south-east, about 12 miles off, appeal's to be on fire. After…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram was received from Lorne this evening, stating that what appears to be a large sailing ship has been burning about 15 miles E.S.E. since 4 o'clock this afternoon. No notice was taken of the smoke at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At about a quarter-past 3 on Sunday morning the window-blind of a dwelling-house in Castlereagh-street, Redfern, was found to be on fire by a young man who was passing. He extinguished it by…
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