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197 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 10
ABOUT a quarter to 2 o'clock on 23rd inst., a most disastrous fire broke out at Windsor. The flames, boing fanned by a furious westerly wind, spread rapidly from house to house, until by half-past 3 o'clook fully thirty buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Wednesday last one of the most disastrous fires ever known in the colony, broke out at Windsor. The day was fearfully hot and dusty and a flerce wind blew from early in the morning. At 2 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is a copy of a telegram received on Thursday from Mr. Superintendent Menzer, of the Parramatta Volunteer Fire Brigade, addressed to Mr. Superintendent Bown, of the Insurance Fire Brigade,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT ten minutes past 3 o'clock on Wednesday a tele gram was received from Windsor, stating that a tire had broken out, which, under the circumstances, the hot raging wind, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BY telegram we learn that Parramatta has been also the scene of a great fire. On Thursday a fire broke out in Mr. Gregg's store in that town, and had not an engine been brought promptly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Thursday morning, at about 11.25, flames were observed issuing from the hay loft at the rear of Mr Gregg's premises, situated in Church street. The alarm was instantly given, and in a very few seconds after the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR correspondent sends us the following aooonnt of the late disastrous fire at Windsor, as observed by him, with some particulars that have not yet been published. Without doubt the most alarming and disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A public meeting has been held in Windsor, the Mayor, Mr. J. M'Quade, occupying the chair, to consider the best means for relieving the distress caused by the late destructive fire. The chairman informed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday was one of those frightful days that it was almost matter of impossibility to traverse the streets in safety, owing to the storm of wind which was blowing, causing clouds of dust to rise, making everyting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Gosper's house is on fire, and burning very fiercely. Wednesday 4 p.m. There has been a fearful dust storm blowing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →On Thurday morning, at about 11.25, flames were observed issuing from the hay loft at the rear of Mr. Gregg's premises, situated in Church street. The alarm was instantly given, and in a very few seconds after the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a few minutes after 12 o'clock last night, an alarm of fire, at Pyrement, was given at the Insurance Brigade Office. The alarm was communicated by bell to the other stations, and the engines quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It may not be out of place to call the attention of the Commissioner for Railways to the necessity of causing a screen to be used by the various locomotives on the Southern and Western lines of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Will you allow me space to contradict a statement made in reference to the fire which occurred on the premises of Mr. James Gregg, last Thursday, viz., that there were about ten cases of kerosene in the hay-left, one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday evening, between 5 and 6 o'clock (we learn from the Newcastle Pilo), a fire was observed by the residents in the immediate neighbourhood of the Parnding Ground, at the dwelling-house of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday, October 17, a fire broke in the cotton mills of Messrs, Abraham Haigh and Son, at Over, in Cheshire, about eight miles from Norwich, which resulted, in course of an hour and a half, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A most distressing calamity occurred to the emigrant ship Cospa trick, which left London on the 14t September, bound for Auckland, under the command of Captain Elmslie, and having on…
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