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284 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 15
Last Sunday morning, 21st January, (says the Border Port) a valuable lot of wheat, in all 70 or 60 bags the property of Richard Peard, of Hindmarsh, was totally consumed by fire. The bags of Wheat had bees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning the coroner's official investigation into the Brooklyn disaster began, and it will continue several days. The corner reported that 292 bodies had been recovered. A searching…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual torchlight procession of the above company took place on last Thursday night, it being the anniversary of their formation. The brigade headed by the Five Dock brass band, under the leadership of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New York, January 3.—The Times' Pottsville, Pa, special says: Yesterday a fire, which threatens to be even more serious in its consequences then is usual with colliery fires, broke out in the deed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday last, about 2.30 p.m., says the Bathurst Independent, the house of a poor woman named Jones, at George's Plains, was destroyed by fire. There are no means of ascertaining by how or by what means…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrific firs is now raging in the densely populated manufacturing quarter of St. Denis. It broke out about eight o'clock in a band-box factory in the Rue Martel, and quickly spread to the adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following memorandum has been issued from the Lord Chamberlain's o[?]i e dated December 21: The recent tragedy in the Brooklyn theatre, at New York, has most properly turned public attention…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Late on Thursday night, December 21, a fire was discovered in the densely-populated Parisian quarter of St. Denis, and it soon assumed terrific proportions. It broke out about 8 o'clock in a bandbox factory, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The calamity at the Brooklyn Theatre, "New York, in which upwards of 300 persons perished, has led to the issue of memorandum from the Lord Chamberlain's office, addressed to the managers of the London…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New, York, January 3,— The Times' Pottsville. Pa., special says: Yesterday a fire, which threatens to be even more serious in its consequences than is usual with colliery fires, broke out in the deed…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →This morning the coroner's official investigation into the Brooklyn disaster began, and it will continue several days. The coroner reported that 292 bodies had been recovered. A searching…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The steamer Thales bas arrived at Cooktown with 450 Chinese passengers. Sir Arthur Kennedy leaves Hong Kong for Brisbane on the 26th of this month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It appears from our country exchanges (says the Argus) that bush fires have been raging in all directions daring the week. In the neighbourhood of Hawkesdale 5000 acres have been burnt on the ran recently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday afternoon, reports the Tamworth Neat of Tuesday, some alarm was caused by the shouts of " Fire," proceeding from the rear of Mr. Regan's stores. From a neighbouring balcony, we looked across,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out in Yarra-street about 1 o'clock on Thursday morning in an unoccupied cottage, next tire comer of Myere-street. It spread to the adjoining shop, and than up the street, burning four other houses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Complaints have frequently been made of the short supply of water, or of the difficulties and delays met with in obtaining s good supply of that requisite at the time of fire in the city, and it has frequently been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday afternoon a disastrous fire occurred at Mr. Davis's farm, Spring Hill, near Orange. It teems that while the portable steam threshing machine was at work, a spark flew from it to the thatched shed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE question of lighting public buildings and offices with safety and without injury to health is of so much importance, that the details of the very narrow escape the offices of a well-known institution in this city had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A terrific fire is now raging in the densely populated manufacturing quarter of St. Denis. It broke out about eight o'clock in a band-box factory in the Rue Martel, and quickly spread to the adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The annual report of Superintendent Charles Bown, to the board of management of the Associated Insurance Companies Fire Brigade, on 1876, has been circulated. It appears therefrom that the total…
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