The Fire Brigades
AT a meeting of the New South Wales Volunteer Fire Brigades Association, held on Thursday evening last, in Sydney, it was decided, on the motion of Mr. P. N. Lockwood,…
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THE No. 2 Fire Brigade
THE No. 2 Volunteer Fire Brigade intend. holding a social at an early date, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the Bulli relief fund. We are all aware that not much surplus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Law Report. Supreme Court.—tuesday, March 29. Banco Court.—(Before his Honor the Chief Justice and juries of four.) FOX V. the Ph[?]enix Fire Insurance Company (Part Heard)
This was an action brought by Ebenezer John Fox against the Phe[?]onix Assurance Company for the recovery of £1500, alleged to be due under an insurance policy, in respect of premises destroyed by fire…
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Was made the [?] [?] framed and neatly [?] [?] bers of the church [?] [?] school, and Mutual Imm[?] [?]…
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[?] [?] —No 1. Bent-street, Sydney. [?] [?] [?]tablished 1862. [?] [?] £1,000,000…
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KIAMA, Wednesday.--In reference to the destructive fire which occurred here last Sunday morning, by which a store in Terralong-street, owned by Mr. D. L. Dymock and lately…
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About 2 o'clock on Saturday morning a fire was discovered in a two-storey brick building on the Western-road near the Iron Cove Bridge owned and occupied by Cornelius Walsh as a…
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A LARGELY-ATTENDED Public meeting of the residents of Ryde was held at St. Anne's Hall on Saturday evening, for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the Rev. H. H. Britten in the painful situation in…
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By far the most serious conflagration that has visited this township for 20 years or more was witnessed on Sunday morning. The first alarm of the fire was sounded from the bell on the post-office tower at 20 minutes to 6, at…
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The Christchurch Press reports that the residents of View-hill, a suburb of Oxford were, at midnight on April 1, alarmed by cries of fire proceeding form the neighborhood of a…
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BATHURST, Saturday.--The Fire Brigade Board has appointed Mr. Butcher as captain of the local brigade, selecting him from about 20 applicants, Mr. Butcher has been six years…
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Sir,--Now that the burning of the Ryde parsonage is no longer sub police, and the Rev. H. Britten has been most honorably acquitted, I would ask what steps are the…
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COWRA, Thursday.--The public school at Porter's Mount was burned to the ground, all the school furniture and hooks, as well as part of the teacher's clothes, also being destroyed…
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The third display of fireworks by Mr. James Pain, takes place in the Prince Alfred Park Exhibition grounds this evening. A first-class programme has been prepared quite as varied as that given on last Wednesday evening, and…
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WAGGA, Sunday.--The Principal Under-Secretary, Mr. Critchelt Walker, was the other day interviewed by Mr. George Sheppard, the Government representative on the Wagga Fire…
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WELLINGTON, Thursday.--The General Postoffice, Wellington (N.Z.), including the Telegraph and Customs Departments, was destroyed by lire at 5 o'clock this morning. The telephone…
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The Wellington Post and Telegraph Office, a new haudsome brick building, which was erected at a cost of £26,000, was destroyed by fire this morning. The fire is supposed to have originated in the…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--A fire broke out in Melbourne-street very early this morning in a two-storey grocery shop, and the flames consumed the top floor and spread to an…
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FORBES, Monday.--Last night a fire occurred at a selection on the Dog and Duck Lagoon owned by Auguste Lanyerie. As there was nobody at home at the time it is not known…
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COOTAMUNDRA, Wednesday.--A most destructive fire took place early this morning. Wearne's mill was totally destroyed except the boiler-room and chimney. A stack of wheat, valued…
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