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The Metropolitan Water Board will shortly consider a proposal for fighting fires without fire engines. Such a system has been introduced abroad with great success…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A disastrous bush fire was raging in the Lagoon district on Saturday and Sunday. It started a few miles but of Crookwell, and spread with great rapidity towards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tremendous bush fires are raging on the Upper Murray. 20,000 acres of grass have been destroyed, and miles of fencing burnt. All stock on Ournie homesteni was saved,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The galvanised iron works of Fulham and Co., at 11 Burren-street, Erskineville, were, with contents, completely burped out by a fire that was discovered in the building at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A taxi-cab,.No. 35. owned by Frank Ernest Dobson, of Tara-street, Milson's Point, was destroyed by fire on the Port Hacking-road, a quarter of a mile from Highfield, on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The clanger of fire has always been a nightmare among the citizens of a place of any proportion, and particularly its business section. No insurance policy can completely recoup the victim of a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The sound of something [?] Devine, who occupies a four-roomed brick cottage in Broughton-street, Canterbury, about half-past 12 this morning. On getting up to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WOODSTOCK, Saturday.--Mrs. Howard, cook at the Royal Hotel, was attending to her duties in the kitchen, when her clothes caught fire. She rushed screaming through the public…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GANMAIN, Sunday.—A disastrous outbreak of fire occurred here in the centre of the town, about 4 p.m., when almost the whole side of the main street was demolished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[?] motor fire engine has been installed at the Balmain Fire Station. It is a 63 horse-power Dennis motor turbine, and is fitted with Gwynne's patent pumps, which are capable of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At an early hour this morning a fire broke out at Roberts' Sheet Metal Works, Burren-street, Erskineville. The damage is estimated at several…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire occurred at Ganmain this afternoon, when a large bus[?] block in Ford-street was gutted. The outbreak is supposed to have started…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Shortly after 1 o'clock to-day a fire broke out in Treadway's Coliseum, a large drapery emporium in Chapelstreet, Prahran, and before it had been got…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The peasants at Paliano successfully asserted their rights to cultivate parts of the larger estates. Two landowners, named Tucei, refused to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Almost the whole of one side of the [?] street of Ganmain was demolished on Bombay afternoon by a fire which broke out mysteriously about 4 o'clock in Messrs. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As a result of the great fire at Prahran on Sunday, when theft Coliseum was destroyed, 300 people will be directly thrown out of employment, and many others will be affected…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →While the clouds were threatening a downpour, at about 1 o'clock this morning, a fire started [?] Works, Burrow-street, Erskineville, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the short space of one hour this afternoon the well-known drapery store. "The Colosseum," in Chapel-street, Prahran, was, with its large stock, destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →As details come to hand respecting a series of both [?] on the eastern side of the district, it becomes apparent that the outbreaks are the most serious experienced in this part…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Big bush fires are raging in the Upper Murray district of Victoria. It is reported that 20,000 acres of grass and miles of fencing have been destroyed…
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