Fire at Farmer and Co.'s Drapery Establishment. (Echo.)
Messrs. Farmer and Co.'s magnificent "Victoria House" premises,in Pitt-street, had a very narrow escape on Monday night from destruction by fire. It appears that…
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Fires & bushfires, 1883
40 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2
Fire Resisting Doors and Shutters
Experience has proved that the ordinary iron doors and shutters usually employed in warehouses do not afford the protection from fire (especially if a large one) that might be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in George-street, Sydney. (From Tuesday's Echo.)
About 20 minutes past 11 last night some of the foot passengers in George-street noticed smoke issuing through the crevices of the shutters of Messrs. Turpin, Blackwell…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Great Fire in Newcastle. (From yesterday's Newcastle Herald.) Total Destruction of Ash and Sons' Steam Saw[?]mills. £12,000 Worth of Damages
About half-past nine o'clock on Saturday night, when the streets were as usual full of people, and business progressing lively, the alarm bells suddenly rang out notification that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in George-street, Sydney. (From the S. M. Herald.)
At about ten minutes past 2 o'clock on Sunday morning a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. W. B. Lee, furniture dealer, situated opposite the Royal Hotel, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Japanese Horror of Fire
One of the practices peculiar to Japan, and one that naturally excites the curiosity of the stranger, is the singing of men at work upon the foundation and frame of any building that is being erected. If the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Bush Fire at Gerringong. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Kiama
About mid-day yesterday a terrific westerly gale commenced, and for 12 hours, almost without intermission, a perfect hurricane swept over the district. At Gerringong the…
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An article in the Scientific American on "Drying Rooms" contains matter for serious reflection by all of us. Not in the direct form of drying rooms. There are some in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire at Auckland. (From the New Zealand Herald, July 25.)
About 3 o'clock this morning, the whole eastern sky was lit up by a very serious fire raging in Mechanics' Bay, which proved to be in the Union Sash and Door Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Fire in [?]'arcy-street Sydney. (From the S. M. Herald.)
About half-past 7 o'clock on Friday evening the inhabitants of West Sydney were thrown into a state of excitement through the breaking out of a most disastrous fire in D'Arcy-street, off D[?]itt-street…
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IN a recent number of the Michigan Medical N[?] Dr. S. C. Woodman gives some re[?]able particulars concerning a young man who seems to be a regular storehouse of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire at Redfern. (From Wednesday's Herald.)
A fire, resulting in great destruction of property, broke out shortly after four o'clock yesterday morning, on the premises of Richard Mills, produce merchant, at 26, Regent-street, Redfern. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires in Pitt-street, Sydney. (From the Herald of Monday.)
A fire, which might have been attended with disastrous consequences, broke out on the premises of George E. Young and Co., 285, Pitt-street, at an early hour on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Fe[?]nelly's Horse Bazaar, Sydney. (Her[?]ld.)
A fire broke out in the Ca[?]tlereagh-street portion of Fennelly's Horse Bazaar shortly before 10 o'clock on Friday evening, and created a great deal of excitement in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires at Bourke. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Bourke
A large fire broke out here at 2.30 a.m. to-day, at Warren's Turf Hotel, which, together with two houses was completely destroyed. The two adjoining brick shops,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Brigades Bill. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—I notice that in your issue of this date, under the telegraphic report of Parliamentary news, I am credited with having moved that owners of uninsured property destroyed should be compensated at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disastrous Fire in Sydney
ON Saturday night about 10 o'clock the city of Sydney was startled by the loud clanging of the fire bells, and a livid glare was soon seen in the direction of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extensive Fire in Lower George-street, Sydney. Damages Estimated at £20,000. (From the S. M. Herald of Monday.)
Shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday night the city was thrown into a state of intense excitement through the breaking out of an extensive and most disastrous fire in the…
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We take the following account of the fire which occurred at Narrabri, and 'which we reported by telegraph in Tuesday's issue, from the Narralri Herald:—…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Great Fire in Inverell. (From the Inverell Times, Nov. 10.)
Yesterday afternoon, at about 4 o'clock, a fire broke out in a large shed at the rear of Woods, Butler, and Co.'s flour mill. In a short time the whole of the building was…
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