Alarm of Fire
A a few minutes to nine o'clock last evening, the fire-bell sounded an alarm, and the engine, accompanied by a fair number of firemen, was taken to the comer of Auburn and Clinton streets, where…
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Fires & bushfires, 1885
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Shocking Accident by Fire
AN old, feeble man named Galvin, who is about 70 years of age, a servant that had been a long time in the employ of Mr. P. J. Clifford, J.P., of Redbo, was (says the Monaro…
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Brisbane, July 81.—The large bonded warehouse of Messrs. Morehead and Co., built of brick, and containing large stores of spirits, tobacco, and general merchandise, was…
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THE fire bell has had an unusually long rest—an interlude, as it were, in the concert; but on Thursday night it commenced the "old old song" in the same key. Fortunately it was only a chimney fire at…
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A disastrous fire broke out in Brisbane on Friday morning in Messrs. Morehead's bond, known as the Struan Bond-building. It was a large warehouse, substantially built of brick. The fire gained…
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FURTHER particulars regarding the fire at Brisbane state that the total loss is not known, but it is estimated at fully £100,000. The amount of the insurances is stated to be about £70,000, involving a…
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Sydney, August 5.—A fire occurred at Temby and Co., grocers, Albury, last night. The damage done was trifling; but the circumstances show the fire to have been the…
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MR. Bonn's store in Auburn-street had a very narrow escape of being burned down to-day. By some means or other unknown, the wastepaper, cardboard boxes, and other articles of that ilk, stored in…
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On Tuesday morning shortly before 6 o'clock Constable Wheally noticed smoke issuing from the Yass store premises. He promptly gave the alarm, and it was found that the ceiling over the millinery…
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On Tuesday, shortly after midday, one of the female assistants in Mr. J. Bond's draper's shop in Auburn street informed him that a lamber-room at the rear of the promises was on fire…
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The Bombala Joint Stock Mill Company's premises were totally destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. The fire was noticed between twelve and o'clock in the…
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ON Tuesday,morning last Mr. J. C. Yeo's; Yass Store premises had a narrow escape from being destroyed, by fire. It appears that Constable Wheally, who was on night duty, was about to…
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On Saturday night the homestead of Mr. Charles Townsend' sen., a farmer living at Bumbury, on the Orange-road, near Parkes, was, with its contents, totally consumed by…
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The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new offices of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society at the corner of Pitt and Hunter-streets, was…
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About ten o'clock on Thursday night a fire broke out in the large produce sheds of Messrs. Heaton Brothers, near the railway station, Orange (not Albury as erroneously reported by…
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A special meeting of fire insurance agents was held in the large room of the A.M.P. Society's buildings on Saturday last. The companies represented were: Norwich Union, Mr. W. H. Oram;…
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SIR.—It was with some surprise that I saw an account of the above meeting, at which less than half of the fire insurance companies having risks in this town were represented. The agents of other…
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At about 9.30 a.m., on Thursday it was reported that the hospital was on fire, and, the feeling of relief was general when it was ascertained that the men of the Fire…
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BETWEEN 1 and 2 o'clock this afternoon a stack of bark at Messrs. Wood, Baxter, and Co.'s globe tannery, was discovered to be on fire. The alarm was raised, and the employees of the factory setting…
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IN the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Sir Alexander Stuart, in reply to Mr. Teece, said that the secretary of the Goulburn local fire brigade had represented to the…
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