Fire at Sherwood
An official Injury was held on Thursday week, at Sherwood Tile Manufacturing establishment, before Mr J. E. Bowden, district coroner, and a jury of twelve, into the…
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A Dreadful Fire
A letter from Charleville (Ardennes) published in Galignani's Messanger on May 5 gives the following further particulars about the disaster which occurred there:—"In the terrible fire which broke out at 4…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →April 28. a Theatre on Fire
The subject uppermost in every one's thoughts at this time, in this part of the world, is the frightful catastriphe of which the picturesque old town of R[?]uen has just been the victim. The principal theatre of the place—one of the…
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A FIRE the occurred at Timor early on the 2nd instant, which not oly destroyed a considerable amount of property, but caused the death of a man named Karney" It appears (says the Maryborough Advertiser)…
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THE following is the fourth annual report of the Australian Mutual Fire, Insurance Society, to 31st March, 1876, submitted to the members at the annual…
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A telegram from Bristol, in the London Daily Telegraph, dated May 24, reports:—"At 11 o'clock to-night a great confiagration broke out in the midst of several wholesale warehouses, occupied by some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Fire in Bristol
A telegram from Bristol, in the London Daily Telegraph, dated May 24, reports:—"At 11 o'clock to-night a great conflagration broke out in the midst of several wholesale warehouses occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Parramatta Volunteer Fire Brigade. To the Editor of the Cumberland Mercury
SIR,— I am reluctantly compelled to answer a letter, which appeared in your issue of Saturday last, signed by a “John Elliott,” and in doing so, feel very much…
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The Bay Sugar Refinery, that immense five-story brick building at the south-west corner of Union and Battery streets, was totally destroyed by fire on the 20th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Fearfully Destructive Fire at St. John's
St. John's, Quebec, June 18.—This place was to-day visited by a most destructive fire. The entire business portion of the town, embracing a stretch of territory six hundred feet wide and a mile in length,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Fire Brigades Bill
THE Fire Brigades Bill has again been the subject of discussion and determined opposition upon the motion for the adoption of a report. The whole question was fairly debated at earlier stages; but as there is a…
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St. John's, Quebec, June 18.—This place was to-day visited by a most destructive fire. The entire business portion of the town, embracing a stretch of territory six hundred feet wide and a mile in length…
Continued on Trove, page 147 →Fire at Coogee
About two o'clock yesterday afternoon, the premises known as Cambridge Vills, at Coogee, which have been occupied by Mr. Charles Kidman, grocer, as a summer residence, was discovered to be on fire by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Alarm Bell. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Mr. Alderman Playfair need not have travelled so far as the United States when referring, in the Council, on Tuesday, to the proposed use of the clock bell for the purpose of sounding alarms of fire, as in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Bill. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Is it not, mildly speaking [?] that the progress through Parliament of a [?] so se[?]-cammending as that of the Fire [?] Bill, should be [?]'structed at every step by the unreasoning oppo[?] of a mere handful…
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SIR,—Permit me to contracict most emphatically a statement contained in the letter signed "Pro Bono Publico,"viz., that the chiefs of No. 1 and No. 2 Volunteer Companies have signified their intention to throw up the sponge in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Alarms. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—As there seems to be a likelihood of our large bell at the City Hall being made available for fire alarms, I would suggest that any system of knocks to denote locality of fire ought undoubtedly to embrace telegraphic communication…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Brigades' Bill. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Pardon the liberty I take in writing to you, but I wish to correct a misstatemeat that appeared in your columns on the 4th instant. Several heads of Fire Companies signed a letter expressing views favourable to the…
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