Fire Commissioners
An election for the position of country representatives on the Board of Fire Commissioners is to be held on March 11, a vacancy having been caused by the death of Alderman…
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A Fire Averted
What might lmvo dovelopod into a serious fire was opportunely quelled on Tuesday last. The residence adjoining the Salvation Army Barracks in…
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An outbreak of lire occurred last bight in the premises of H. Crooke and Co., cabinet manufacturers, in Gibbons-street, Redfern. The contents of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Brigades Board. Filling a Vacancy
On account of the death of Aid. R. Shepherd, the representative of the municipalities on the Fire Brigades Board, an election will he held in March next to appoint a successor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cut Off by Fire Mothers and Babies Exciting Rescues LONDON, January 13
Exciting scenes were witnessed at Edinburgh in a maternity hospital situated on the fourth and fifth floors of a building in ancient High-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blaze at Campsie Opposite Fire Station
A fire broke out late last night in the premises of the Ba|main Co-operative Society, in Beamish-street, Camps[?]. The fire station is directly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crops Destroyed Fires in the West PARKES
A fire at Morgan's farm at Bindogandri yesterday burnt 200 acres of the crop belonging to Mr. Morgan and a share farmer, Mr. Oliver. The crop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Blaze Canning Factory Destroyed MELBOURNE
Early this morning the canning factory of H. M. Leggo and Co., of 218-20 Queen-street, city, was practically destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Campsie
A fire which broke out in the grocery store of the Balmain Co-operative Society. Beamish-street, Campsie, late on Saturday night was promptly attended by the Campsie Fire…
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The interior of the Ideal boot factory, Bourke-street, Waterloo, was damaged this afternoon by a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whangarei Fire £100,000 Damage Caused AUCKLAND
A fire caused £100,000 damage at Whangarel. The freezing works buildings were destroyed. They were mostly wood, and included…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plot Fails. Huge Oil Store Fire Planned. Sinn Feiners Suspected. London, January 15
Three constables frustrated a carefully planned attempt to set fire to the Vacuum Oil Company's depot, at Wandsworth, in which were 60,000 barrels containing 2,500,000 gallons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire-plot Foiled Sinn Fein Attempt on Vacuum Oil Outrage at Wandsworth Shots Exchanged with Police London, January 15
Scotland Yard confirms the rumor that Sinn Feiners were responsible for the Wandsworth outrage. The detectives state that three men who were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires in the Country. Howlong
A fire occurred on Saturday afternoon, three miles from Howlong, 70 acres of standing crop and 80 bags of wheat being destroyed before the outbreak was extinguished by a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boot Factory Destroyed by Fire. Melbourne
Containing much valuable stock and machinery, the premises of Messrs. Pitman and Sons, boot manufacturers, of Clifton Hill, were destroyed by fire soon after 10 o'clock…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Many thousands of pounds worth of damage was done to-night by a fire which completely destroyed Mr. Thomas Pitman's boot factory in Alexander Parade,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Many Outbreaks in West DUBBO
Though the grass is green almost everywhere in the west, there are many ouebreaks of bush fires. On Merimba, one of the properties of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Cork Fires Commission's Finding London, January 17
"The Times" Parliamentary correspondent states that another commission on the Cork fires will probably he appointed. In the case of General…
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