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217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 11
On Sunday last a destructive lire broke out at Messrs. Mort and Company's Meat-preserving Works, at the head of Darling Harbour. It is so recently that the public interest has been awakened in the enterprise which has…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A DISASTROUS fire occurred in this city on Sunday evening, which was weil nigh destroying the result of years of scientific labour and, as far as this colony is concerned, of unparalleled enterprise. It occurred at Mort…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The funeral of Mr. Thomas, Ashby, of this town, took place on the afternoon of Christmas Day. Deceased had a member of the local fire brigade,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agnes Rebecca Jones, one of the children burnt at the fire at Shepherd's Paddock, died yesterday morning from the effects of her injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT will be learned with, satisfaction generally that, though the recent fire at Mort's Freezing Works has done a considerable amount of damage, the machinery has been found unhurt, and that the temperature of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →UPON those who watched on Sunday evening the dense column of black smoke suddenly arising from the head of Darling Harbour, and who saw the tremendous sheet of flame which speedily…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A fire occurred at four o'clock this morning to Castlereagh-street, by which the Queen's Hotel, situated three or four doors from the new Theatre Royal, was almost totally destroyed. At the time the fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Co-operative Colliery Company's pit at Wallsend is burning. A wall of coal caught fire from the ventilating furnace below…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most destructive fires which has ever occurred in Glasgow broke out on the afternoon of the 12th November in a mill at Bridgeton, one of the eastern districts of the city. About 2 p.m. a portion of the machinery in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the night of the 1st. inst., an alarm of fire was sounded by the bell at the fire-engine station, about eleven o’clock, and speedily several members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most destructive fires which has ever occurred in Glasgow broke out on the afternoon of the 12th November in a mill at Bridgeton, one of the eastern districts of the city. About 2 p.m., a portion of the machinery in the…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →The fire reported in our telegram of Thursday as having broken out in the Co-operative Colliery, Wallsend, was, according to the NEWCASTLE PILOT (from which we quote). discovered early on Thursday morning on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On last Friday night the Volunteer Fire Brigades at Newtown and Balmain, welcomed the advent of the new year with 'great rejoicing. The former had a banquet at their station-house on the Newtown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHAT is meant by a gas-fire? Is it some new kind of stove, differing from others in form, or material, or mode of operation? No: it is not a stove, according to the meaning us[?]ally attached to that term…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Insurance Companies' Fire Brigade was celebrated yesterday in Correy's pleasure-grounds, at Botany, and was more successful than any of its predecessors. The weather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the evening of New Year's Day an extensive fire occurred at Braefield, on the premises of Hugh Hughes, a fanner of that district. An inquiry was held before Captain Wheeler on Wednesday last, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The hydrant which has been lately fitted to the watermain opposite the Prince if Wales Theatre was, no doubt, the means of stopping a very serious destruction of property…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Sunday, the 26th of December, a destructive the broke out at Messrs. Mort and Company's Meatprescrving Works, at the head of Darling Harbour. It is so recently that the public interest has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two large factories have just been burned down in Glasgow. The fire broke out in the spinningmill of Messrs. Robertson and Co., of Greenhead-street. This building, which was 300 feet in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE fire reported in our telegram of Thursday as having broken out in the Co-operative Colliery, Wallsend, was, according to the NEWCASTLE PILOT (from which we quote), discovered early on Thursday morning, on the…
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