Railway Bridge on Fire
This morning, about ten minutes to 2, the railway bridge near Parramatta Station was found to be on fire, but the outbreak was speedily suppressed by the police and the fire…
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Fire in Forbes-street
The M.F.B. was called out to a fire at 232 Forbes-street last, night, about 8 o'clock, and on arrival the front room on the first floor of the house was found to have been ablaze,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Country Fire Brigades
Yesterday, a deputation waited on Sir John See to bring under his notice the disabilities under which country fire brigades labour, and to ask for an increase…
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Messrs. Dick, Brunker, Coleman, Gilbert, Gillies, Estell, Wright, Anderson, Evans, Fegan, Byrne, B. Hall, and Edden, M's.L.A., waited as a deputation upon the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Country Fire Brigades. Protest Against Reduction in Subsidy
The action of the Government in reducing this year's grant to country fire brigades from £4000 to £1000, brought down a storm upon the head of Sir John See yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Country Fire Brigades. the Government Grant. Deputation to the Premier
A deputation waited on the Premier (Sir John See) yesterday to ask for an increase in the vote for country fire brigades from £1000 to £4600, the latter being the sum which had been granted by Parliament…
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On Thursday night a bedroom on the first floor of a house at 282 Forbes-street, Darlinghurst, was discovered to be on fire, caused by a light of a candle coming into contact with some curtains. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire Brigades
A deputation waited on the Premier (Sir John See) for the purpose of requesting an increase in the vote to the country fire brigades, which was last year reduced from £4000 to £7000. and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country News. Fires. Forbes
The inquest upon the fire at Richardson's Albion Hotel has been adjourned till Tuesday. LITHGOW, Friday. Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out at the…
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A FIRE and which resulted in the complete destruction of a four-roomed: weather board cottage and its contents; owned and occupied by Mr. Howard,…
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FORBES Saturday.—The inquest on the fire which occurred at the Albion buildings and hotel on the morning of the 24th instant, was commenced on Thursday, and continued on Friday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Battleship Which Fires Thirteen Tons Minute
Thirteen and a half tone of shot per minute to the remarkable result to be sot from a new Chilian battleship that Messrs. Vickers, at Barrow-in-Furness, have just built. There are…
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LITHGOW, Friday.—Some excitement and consternation, were created among the employees of Cooerwull Woollen Mills, about a mile from Lithgow, soon after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon…
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Between 1 and 2 o'clock on Friday morning a fire was discovered on the O'Connell-street railway bridge. The fire brigade was summoned, but before they arrived at the scene the fire was put out by some of the railway employees…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A New Automatic Fire Extinguisher
There are at the present time in some towns laws which enforce the placing of fire-extinguishing apparatus on each floor of factory or other buildings where people find employment or…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sensational Runaway. Fire Brigades' House Bolts
A sensational runaway occurred this morning at the top of William-street, Darlinghurst. A horse belonging td the Darlinghurst branch ot the M.F.B. became startled at the sudden…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Utilising Fire-damp for Lighting Purposes
An interesting experiment has been tried in the Agrappe coalmine in Belgium. This has been nothing less than utilising fire-damp as a luminant. A special gasometer and (special…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parramatta and District. Railway Bridge on Fire
Early yesterday morning an alarm was given that the railway bridge spanning O'Connell-street, Parramatta, was on fire. When the brigade arrived it was found that the fire had been,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Big Hotel Blaze. Twenty Killed, Forty Injured
The Clifton Hotel, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A., has been destroyed by fire. Twenty persons were killed and 40 others were injured…
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