Grafton Fire Brigades
SIR.—Seeing that inquiry is made as to whether or not the Fire Brigades Board still exists, I send you some particulars which may interest the ratepayers. GRAFTON FIRE BRIGADE…
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Fires & bushfires, 1890
11 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
A Fight with Fire
AT the Parramatta Police Court, Florence Sinclair, a fair-haired and rather pleasant looking girl, aged about 13 years, was charged with setting fire to the…
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THE most disastrous fire that ever took place Sydney broke out at 2 o'clook this morning, in the premises of Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard and Co. The flames gained complete mastery of that warehouse,…
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THE great fire, in Sydney has afforded an opportunity for the display of journalistic enterprise not heretofore exhibited. That opportunity has been fairly well availed of by the Daily Telegraph. On…
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THE first symptom of the great conflagration was seen by a special constable at 2.20 a.m on Thursday, who at once gave the alarm to the nearest fire station, but before…
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THE origin of this fire is a mystery. The suboverseer to Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard and Co. states that the previous evening after the men left he turned off the gas on each floor. The machine…
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AT the inquiry into the recent disastrous fire which originated at Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard and Co.'s warehouse, Mr, Gibbs stated that it was impossible for him to conceive how the fire originated,…
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SATISFACTORY progress has bean made by the representatives of the London and colonial insurance companies who were concerned in the heavy losses that were sustained in…
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A SYRACUSE telegram to the San Francisco Alta California, dated October 16, gives particulars of what proved to be the most disastrous fire that has visited Syracuse for…
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FROM the inactivity displayed by the members of the Grafton Fire Brigade of late, some doubts have been expressed as to whether the institution is still in existence. On inquiry, however, we find…
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SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—Shortly before 9 o'olook last night a fire was seen at the bonded stores on Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co's, wharf (lately known as Dibbs') by some one on board a boat lying there…
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