Fire at Ashfield
Shortly before 8 o'clock last night a fire broke out in a weatherboard building at the rear of Dr. Percy M. Wood's residence in Liverpool-road, Ashfield. The Marrickville branch of the…
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Dubbo Fire Brigade. Dubbo
The Dubbo Fire Brigade has given tha Underwriters' Association an undertaking as a condition of gra[?]tiug a subsidy that not more than one-half of the members of the brigade shall be absent from the…
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(Adapted from Brian J. Dunn's "By the Light of the Kiln-fire" in November "Clay-Worker.) By the peat fires long gone out…
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A farm in Belgium was recently set on fire by a shower. The farmer placed a quantity of quicklime near a shed, and left is there all night. In…
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The now fire brigade station at the corner of Victoria and Norton streets, Ashfield, is now almost completed. and will be opened on Friday, March 29. A section of the local residents…
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On Sunday morning a fire, which broke out fa the premises of Messrs. Elliott Brothers, grocers, at Walker-street, North Sydney, caused a considerable amount of damage. The flames…
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PENRITH, Sunday.--A very suspicious fire, causing damage amounting to over £100, was discovered last evening on, Mr. W. J. Rowe's steamer The Nepean. Mr. Rowe took a large…
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WAGGA, Saturday.-Evidence of an unusual character was adduced at an inquest held on Friday by the deputy coroner (Mr. George Coleman) concerning a fire which occurred about 4…
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BREWARRINA, Saturday.--During the transit of a train from Byrock to Brewarrina this afternoon, a spark from an engine ignited three trucks of lucerne hay, belonging to Wright, Heaton, and…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--Damage to the extent of about £8000 has been done by a fire which occurred on board the Peninsular and Oriental liner Syria, which is building at Limehouse…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A fire occurred at Yarraberg last night, by which Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlin, aged 52, the wife of Mr. J. T. Tomlin, received injuries which subsequently caused her…
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Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlin, 52 years of age, who received severe injuries in a fire which occurred at her house near Richmond last mouth, died in the hospital to-day from the…
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The Victorian Department of Lands has received about 130 applications from sufferers by the recent bush fires in the Gippaland, Cape Otway, and the western districts for loans…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Bush-Fire Brigade. Douglas Park
A number of men out Crook well way, have formed a bush-fire brigade. They are farmers and squatters, and the hard times and the fires have bound…
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MR. HART, A BURNT-OUT FARMER, OF BOGGY CREEK, NEAR WANGARATTA, Removing what he could save of his furniture…
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Eight shops in the business part of South Yarra were damaged by fire to-day. One of the shops, occupied by Miss Blackie, a milliner was completely gutted, and her loss is estimated…
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LONDON, March 15.-The damage done by the fire on board the P. and O. Company's steamer Syria, in the shipbuilding yard at Linthouse, Glasgow, was £80,000, and not £8000 as first…
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A fire broke out this morning on the steamer Gairlock at Geelong Jetty, through a kerosene lamp bursting in the forecastle. The fire brigade turned out promptly, and…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.--The premises of J. W. Grasby, tea dealers and general grocers, in Grenfell-street, were gutted by fire this evening. The clerks were in the office, and yet the fire gained a…
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