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136 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 7
SIR,—The number of fires that have taken place lately in Sydney is truly alarming. Formerly it used to be one every two or three months, and seldom even then of any very great importance. Now it seems to be one every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquiry, respecting the destruction by fire of the block of buildings at the corner of George and King streets on the morning of the 22nd ultimo, was continued on Friday and Saturday, the 28th and 29th ultimo, before the City…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The inquest on the fire at Mr. Robert Neimke and Company's, at the corner of George-street and Kingstreet, was resumed at the City Coroner's office, yesterday mornrng, and the evidence concluded in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE inquiry [?] the destruction by fire of the block of buildings at the corner of George and King streets, on the night of the 21st Decmeber, was resumed yesterday, [?]e the City Coroner, at his office…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday the members of the No. 2 Volunteer Fire Company celebrated their tenth anniversary by a picnic, at the Balmoral Gardens, Middle Harbour. The committee elected for carrying out the arrangements…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DESPATCHES from Quebec to the 16th October furnish further particulars of the fire in that city. It seems that the fire began at 4 in the morning, in the house of Mr. Trudel, grocer, St. Joseph-street, near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A conflagration of a very serious character, and which might have been attended with low of life, broke out in the 4.20 train from Edinburgh on Friday night week, between Cupar and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A large portion of the city of Quebec has been destroyed by fire. It broke out at 4 a.m. on the 14th instant, and raged for 13 hours destroying 2,500 houses, and property to the value…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DESPATCHES from Quebec to the 16th October furnish further particulars of the fire in that city. It seems that the fire began at 4 in the morning, in the house of Mr. Trudel, grocer, St. Joseph-street, near…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE inquiry respecting the destruction by fire of the block of buildings at the corner of George and King streets, on the night of the 21st December, was resumed on Monday, before the City Coroner, at his office…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ABOUT midnight of the 21st ult. signs of fire were discovered on the premises occupied by Mr. Neimke, tobacconist, one of a range of shops situated under Zuccani's furniture warehouses, formerly the stores of Ashdown and Co., ironmongers. When…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Allow me through the medium of your columns to draw the attention of the proper authorities to the dangerous state of the corner building, the site of the late fire, corner of George and King streets. It is my opinion that,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday morning, at about twenty minutes to 5 o'clock, an alarm of fire was given in George-street North, at its junction with Essex-street. The alarm reached the Insurance Brigade office at fiva minutea…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I beg to draw your attention to the great injustice to which the jurymen for the inquest on the above fire have been subjected. They were summoned to attend with the understanding that they were to receive a recompense for their trouble and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire involving terrible loss of life occurred last night. Four adults and five children were suffocated in their respective rooms in the tenement house premises Nos. 215 and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An alarm of fire, announced through the city of Limerick between six and seven o'clock on Friday evening by the engines of the different insurance companies driving in quick haste…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Australian Pastoral Investment Company have suffered a very severe loss from lire. A wool-shed at Dunlop, on the Darling, thirty-five miles from the head station, Toorale, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The P., N.Z. & A.R.M. Co's s.s. Ruahine, Captain T. S. Beale, arrived at Wellington at 4.15 p.m., on the 27th January, from Panama, five days overdue. She was detained at Panama…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →FROM Yokohama there is intelligence of a disastrous fire which, occurred in that place en the 28th of November, and consumed more than one-half the foreign and one-third the native portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out at the Crystal Palace yesterday, which has resulted in the destruction of the tropical department, with its famous courts. How it originated is not known. At twenty minutes past 1 o'clock a…
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