Thefts From Fire Alarm Boxes
In the annual report of the Fire Brigades Commissioners it is stated, that the board's fire alarm system has been suffering severely from thefts of telephone instruments,…
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The Fire Fighters. Board's Annual Report
The annual report of the Board of Fire Commissioners, issued yesterday, states that the fire districts under the board's control now number 78. New fire stations were erected…
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The Orient Company's offices and stores at Tilbury have been burnt. The damage will involve a loss of £10,000. The workshops were saved. '…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Guarding. the Wheat How a Farmer Stopped a Fire Breaks Save Countryside Forbes
The immense value of fire-breaks in saving tho crops was exemplified on Saturday afternoon. A bush fire, which destroyed about 250. acres of growing crop, valued at about…
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Particulars are to hand of enormous grass fires which have been burning in the Green Hills, Gunbar and Hillston districts, during the last week or so. They are visible in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farm and Field Notes. Preventing Bush Fires
At a meeting of the Wagga Pastures Protection Board, a resolution was carried that a further effort be made to induce the State Government to frame regulations prohibiting…
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The weather in Forbes for the holiday season has been extremely hot, due in part to the presence of bush fires in the district. A blaze at Daroobalgie destroyed 60 acres of…
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Bush fires have [?] heavy [?] Forbes district during the past few [?] which was [?] seven bags to the [?] tons of [?]…
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A serious grass fire broke out on Clare Station on Thursday. The outbreak was caused by lightning. The fire [?] a strip through the holdings of Clare and L[?] and [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The Home Fires" a Song in Time Kurri Kurri's Rescue Chorus West Maitland
A lamp crashed to the floor, an angry red flame leaped up, and the crowd In the Kurri Kurri Eisteddfod last night rose in incipient panic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sensation at Lyttelton. a Barquentine on Fire. The Vessel Scuttled
The "Christchurch Sun" of Dec. 15 says that a vessel caught fire in Lyttelton Harbour yesterday, and as it seemed impossible to save the vessel,…
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BERIUGAN, Wednesday.-- At Malrjlmmy, a fire destroyed about 200 acres of wheat crop on Mr. John M'Cullock'a farm. It spread to the adjoining holdings, and burnt several hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Takes Fire. Horrible Accident in Austria.[?]
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[?] communique this evening [?] Italian battering [?] two [?] depots at Fontigo, south[?] out the Plave front…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tattersall's Club Races. Colugo's Carrington. Greek Fire's Great Performance. Bad Accident in Juvenile
There was a bumper attendance at Randwick for the first day of Tattersall's Club annual meeting. The weather was fine and hot, and the course fast. There…
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Possibly the biggest bush fire in the history of the district swept hundreds of thousands of acres of grass and timber country in the Gunbar-Green Hills…
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How the presence of mind of one or two level-headed persons may be responsible for saving the lives of, perhaps, hundreds of persons, was well…
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A fire, which caused damage announcing to £2000, occurred at the premises of Sharpies [?], printers and stationers, in Adela[?] (S A.), early on Sunday morning. The [?] portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Explosions and Fires. American City Damaged. New York
A series of explosions and fires destroyed an Important section of the city of Norfolk, Virginia. The damage will amount to two millions. Five arrests have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Wheat Crops. Berrigan
A fire on Mr. J. McCullock's property at Mairjimmy destroyed about 200 acres of it crop of growing wheat. A large body of fighters worked strenuously to subdue the…
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