A New Fire Extinguisher
ON Wednesday afternoon, says the S. M. Herald, a number of gentlemen assembled to witness the trial of a new method of fire extinction known as Harden's Hand…
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Fires & bushfires, 1884
186 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 10
Alarm of Fire
A LITTLE after noon yesterday the bells rang out a fire alarm, but continued their clanging only for a brief time. Hundreds, as usual, turned out just as the churches…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Larkin's produce stores, with the adjoining premises, Brick field Hill, were destroyed by fire this morning…
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YESTERDAY morning the Borough Markets and adjacent property had a very narrow escape from destruction by fire. Some wooden shanties at the rear, occupied by…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A hundred bales of wool, with the sheds, waggons, harness, etc., at Messrs. Dalgety, Blackwood, and Co.'s station, Borabula, near Deniliquin,…
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AT about 8 o'clock last evening the alarm bell was rung, and the brigades were on the point of turning out, as it was said that Mr. Donnison's Harbour View Hotel, Scott and…
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THE Court-house last night received an essentially necessary and gratuitous exterior cleansing. The Newcastle Fire Brigade's engine had a wet practise; and…
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ST. PETERSBURG, Wednesday.—News of a destructive fire is to hand from the river Volga. A vessel took fire in the river, and drifted alongside a number of…
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INVERCAGILL, N.Z., Friday.—A disastrous fire has occurred at Invercargill, N.Z. The damage, covered by insurance, is estimated at over £18,000…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—At half-past 6 o'clock last evening, a fire broke out in the upper part of Mr. James Kidman's extensive building at the corners of Market and…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Last night Mr. Zollner's galvanizing iron works and general store, Darling Harbour, adjoining the Darling Harbour Railway, were destroyed…
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COPENHAGEN, Monday.—A destructive, fire took place in the city of Copenhagen to-day, and resulted in the destruction of the Amalienburg Palace (which was the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.-A fire occurred this morning at 4 o'clock at the stores of Delissa and Phillips, spirit merchants, Barrack-street. The place was gutted, and…
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AT about 7.30 last evening the first tell was rung furiously, and the brigades were quickly out in answer to the summons. The proceeded to Brown-street, to the residence of Captain Brown's, of the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A fire broke out to-day in the Brooks' Sewing Cotton Warehouse, Clarence-street. It was discovered before much damage had been…
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NEW YORK, To-day.—Last night a terrific fire bloke [?] Carthage, a town of New York state, by [?]hich an [?]normous amount of damage was done. Many houses,…
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SHORTLY before 1 o'clock this morning the promises used by Hudson Brothers, as workshops, situated at Wickham, were partially destroyed by…
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THERE is little, if anything to add in connection with the disastrous fire at Hudson Brothers, Wickham, reported in our last issue. The proprietors were yesterday…
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BETWEEN 8 and 9 o'clock yesterday morning, the fire bell was rung notifying that a fire had broken out somewhere. Hundreds of people, of course, assembled, and the…
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A PUBLIC meeting will be held, at the Black Diamond Hotel, this evening, to consider the best means of assisting the men who were thrown out of employment, owing to…
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