Adelaide Fire Brigades
Mr. H. C. Slater, a member of the Sydney Fire Brigade, has been appointed superintendent of the Adelaide Fire Brigades. The position was advertised in the intercolonial…
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Fires & bushfires, 1885
197 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 10
Suspicious Fire
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The premises of Henry Cotton, restaurant keeper, Dundas-place, South Melbourne, were discovered to be on fire in four different…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Two destructive fires occurred this evening, The steam [?]aw-mills and the cabinet works of Cohen Brothers, Lonsdale street, were almost…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Full inquiry made into the cause of the late fire at the saw-mills, Sandridge, shows that it was owing to suspicious circumstances…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Balaklava Hotel, Adelaide, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Only a portion of the furniture was saved. The fire is supposed to have…
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ST. PETERSBURG, Sunday.—The Russian Government have received a telegram from General Komaroff dated April 1st, in which he states that on the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The premises of Mr. and Mrs. Sparshatt, at Annandale, have been destroyed by fire…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—There was a large fire at Hart's timber yards, Surrey Hills, last night. The property was totally destroyed…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A destructive fire at Lyre and Co.'s stores, Mount Victoria, took place last night. There was a thousand pounds worth of damage done…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A large fire occurred this morning at Messrs. E. L. Yencken and Co.'s oil and colour stores, 3 Flinders-street East. An employee who…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A fire broke out to-day in the shop of Messrs. Clarke and Co., chemists, Queen-street. The flames were extinguished at about 1 p.m. The…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—The premises between the Norfolk Arms and Cunningham's, in Rundle-street, occupied by a tobacconist, photographer,…
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WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—A destructive fire broke out to-day in New Plymouth, by which 13 buildings were destroyed. The damage is estimated at £20,000, and the…
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A NOVEL fire insurance case (says the Paris correspondent of the Economist) has just been tried before one of the Paris law courts. A lady who had…
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WHAT might have ended in a disastrous fire took place or Saturday night in Mrs. Prevost's toy shop, Hunter-street, about 7 o'clock. By some unaccountable means a…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—The City Coroner held an inquest to-day in the Assembly Hotel, corner of Hunter and Phillip streets, on the body of Mary Ann…
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SIR,—A paragraph in your Wallsend correspondence to-day may possibly lead to the suspicion that the fire on Saturday night was the work of an incendiary…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—There was a fire yesterday morning at Botany-road, Waterloo. Two shops were gutted, and several houses more or less damaged…
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SIR,—Being a subscriber to the fund got up to assist the men who last their tools in the fire at Hudson Brothers, I would, with your permission, ask the committee when it,…
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A SPECIAL general meeting of the above brigade took place at the station, Blane-street, last evening. There were 28 members present, and Mr. W. Larking, the…
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