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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.--The Fire Underwriters' Conference was concluded yesterday. Much of the time of the conference was taken up in discussing tho question of raising the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Saturday.--A serious fire broke out early this morning in two stoffed premises occupied by Messrs. Murray and Magee, drapers, situated in Stanley-street, South…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During 1908 the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received no less than 699 calls for fires and supposed fires. Of these 114 proved to be false alarms, 18 were only "chimney alarms,"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is not within human nature to be omnipresent, and for this reason is it possible to have outbreaks of fire in buildings supervised by the best of watchmen? It 1s in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When asked yesterday As to what was the best way to erect a big fire-resisting city building Superintendent Webb, of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, pointed to the new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great interest is being manifested in a boat race in whalers between crews from the Metropolitan Fire Brigade and tho New South Wales Naval Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.--Word has been received at Westport that the Westport Coal Company's mine, at Millerton,is on fire. The company refuses to give particulars…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. C. M'Murtric, one of the Union leam of footballers, now on the way home from England, writing to his brother, Mr. J. M'Murtric, of Orange, told him of a torpedo-[?]ng…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early on Saturday morning a fire broke out in the premises of Murray and Magee drapers, South Brisbane. The upper portion of the building was completely gutted. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Advices from Westport state that the Westport Coal Company's mine at Millorton is on fire, and all work has been stopped. It will probably be nine months before work is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At 1 o'clock this morning a fire occurred at an oyster saloon in Watt-street, occupied by E. A. Cofteros. A passer-by noticed the fiames through the window, and gave the alarm…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A fire broke out in the premises of E. Coftevos, an oyster saloon keeper in Watt-street, at an early, hour yesterday morning. The flames were first noticed bursting through the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The most destructive fire that has occurred in Wangaratta for the past quarter of a century occurred on Sunday night, when a big store with a 90ft…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At the Bathurst Quarter Sessions, a young man named James Bourke pleaded not guilty to a charge of having maliciously set fire to natural grasses at Jew's Creek, near Sofala…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the course of an [?]nquiry into the burning of a house belonging to Chas. Gilbert, horse-owner, at Hendra, on February 9th last, one witness stated that his attention was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday Evening.—A high tenement building in New York was burnt down last night, ten lives being lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A big fire occurred in the main street at Waratah on Sunday morning, a number of promises being burnt out. Heavy losaes resulted, as the buildings were only partially…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A high tenement building in New York has been destroyed by fire. Ten persons perished in the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire broke out in a large weatherboard shed containing a quantity of asbestos and Muggins at the rear of the premises of Mr. Charles Sprodd, an asbestos boiler-covering…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At last meeting of the Vaucluse Council the Mayor (Alderman Gilliver) stated that the member for the district reported that a fire station would shortly be built at Watson's…
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