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The fire brigades were called out twice last night to suppress fires in the city, and on the first occasion the a r[?] had a somewhat lively time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A message from Yass dated Thursday reads:— The bush fires which have been raging in the Yass district since…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ALBURY, Thursday.--Early this morning a weatherboard cottage, owned by Mrs. Kelly, at Doctor's Point was totally destroyed by fire. The cause of the outbreak is unknown, though…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For having maliciously damaged a fire hose belonging to the Metropolitan Fire Brigade by slitting it with a knife on Wednesday a buggy boy named Otto Wilson. 16…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alderman W. Taylor, the representative, of suburban municipalities on the Fire Brigades Board, With to-day address the following letter to the municipalities within the metropolitan area who support the upkeep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Keep calm! Don't run. The result of running is to create a draught that fans the flames, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A most destructive bush fire started on Poligolet, near Lismore, on Thursday. Assisted by the shifting wind, it quickly spread over 7000 acres of grass. On Poligolet and Larra…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The residents in and around Baulkham Hills got a bit of a fright towards the end of last week, when the most extensive bush fire during the past 15 years…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The story told by Superintendent Webb of the danger of a really great fire is Sydney is unfortunately an old one, and one, also, which has not been taken to heart as it should have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Federal saw mill at Tinonee, owned by Captain Hector Gollan, built four years ago, was completely destroyed by fire on Thursday at midnight. The mill had not been…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In an interview yesterday the Town Clerk said that a few months ago a communication was received at the Town Hall from the Director of Agriculture, referring to an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"There are parts of Sydney where, if a fire once got a hold, it would develop into a conflagration that would put into insignificance the most disastrous outbreaks that have…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →It was reported recently that Dr. Rambaut, director of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, had observed on the previous day a large solar outburst on the sun. At 11.45 the flame-iike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several times during the year, says Superintendent Webb, of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, owing, no doubt, to the increase of large fires in other countries, questions have been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire broke out on a [?] block of land on the Long Bay—road, hear the Penitentiary. at about 2 o'clock yesterday, and burned for about three hours…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon an extensive bush fire broke out amongst the scrub off the Long Bay-road, near the penitentiary, and blazed for a little over four…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Fire Brigade received a call yesterday a little after 1 o'clock, and proceeded to the premises of W. Hoskins and Son, engineers, Sussex—street. There…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another fire occurred this afternoon, when a small house in Wolfram-street, owned by Mr. J. Howard, was completely destroyed. CLIFTON, Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A telegram was received by the postal authorities on Saturday, stating that an allowance post-office at a place called Canning Mills, in West Australia, had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WEST WYALONG. Monday.—Another disastrous conflagration took place last night, at 11 o'clock, when Punton and Jackman's butchers' shop and O'Keeffe's grocery, in the main street,…
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