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ln the Summons' Division of the Balmain Polies Court yesterday, before Mr. F. S, [?]cs, S.M., Alfred Webb, superintendent of the metropolitan fire brigades, proceeded against the Municipal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, April 29, 2.30 p.m.—A great forest fire has occurred in the State of Wisconsin. The town of Kimball was destroyed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A huge forest fire destroyed the town of Kimball in Wisconsin. U.S.A. Millions' of feet of timber were also consumed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Recently a ratepayer wrote to the Mosman Council and drew attention to the danger to which adjacent house property was frequently exposed during the summer month by the occurrence of bush fires on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A resident or Gladesville startled the slumbering village somewhere about 1 or 2 o'clock the other morning, by ringing the fire bell. It was not long before a considerable number of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EARLY on Monday afternoon a fire broke out in a three-roomed weather board cottage situated in West Botany-street. Rockdale. The dwelling,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The municipal councils were strongly represented by that deputation which waited on the Premier yesterday to urge the necessity of amended legislation with reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blake stood with his foot almost on the trap door that led to safety with a feeling that he could not move to save his life. A more resolute and courageous man would have made a dash…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Early on Sunday morning a fire broke out at Munro's slaughter yards at Prospect. Some fat, it appears, was left simmering in the copper over night as is often the case, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the Summons Division of the Balmain Police-court on Wednesday, before Mr. F. S. Isaacs, S.M., Alfod Webb, superintendent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early in February there was quite an unprecedented panic among the Chinese of Shanghai. A short time…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →About 60 aldermen, representative of the suburban councils and delegates to the recent Municipal Conference, waited upon the Premier yesterday and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A deputation numbering nearly sixty aldermen, representative of suburban municipal councils, was yesterday received by Sir .John See, in the Executive Council Chamber, Chief Secretary's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Somo time ago the question of municipal contributions to the establishment and maintenance of fire brigades in the city and suburbs was raised in the Randwick Council by Alderman G…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cootamundra has, within the last couple of weeks, been shaken out of its droughtdepressed condition in a way that was as unwelcome as unexpected. First came an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The council-chamber at the Chief Secretary's building was scarcely large enough to hold the deputation which, headed by Mr. David Storey, M.L.A., waited on the Premier yesterday to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I was once honored (writes a correspondent of the "Daily Mail") by the confidence of a criminal in his cups, on a railway Journey. He told me, as an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Wise was a prominent figure at Sir Edmund Barton's meeting on Thursday night. He appeared to be Jovially disdainful of the hooters in the audience, but close…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night a barn containing 250 bags of maize, the property of H. Moody, was destroyed by fire. The cause is unknown, and it is doubted that it was accidental. There was no insurance, and the loss is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out in a chemist's shop kept by Mr. W. B. Turner, in King-street, Newtown, at 4.20 p.m. yesterday. The flames obtained a good hold of the premises, as nearly…
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