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238 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 12
About half-past 7 o'clock on Tuesday night Mrs. M. O'Neill, confectioner, of 43 and 45, King-street discovered that some chaff and bags io the bolling-room on her premises were on fire. Senior-constable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A mart destructive fire occurred this morning in Main-street, South Brisbane. Three large stores, the property of Mr. Adams, were totally destroyed. All efforts to save…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The members of this company had a practice on Saturday last at Correy's Tea Gardens, Botany. The firemen, with the three engines belonging to the company, each engine being drawn by four horses, made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—With respect to the fire at South Brisbane this morning, the following are the insurances:—In the South Pacific for £300, and the New Zealand Office for £300…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning between 8 and 9 o'clock, a fire broke out on board of the fore-and-aft schooner Lucy Ravel, off the Erakine-street wharves. It appears that nose of the crew were on board. The fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Saturday afternoon a foul chimney in the house of Mr. Robert Miller, on the Glebs-road, caught fire, but was soon extinguished. Some sparks from the chimney descended a chimney in another part of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire, which, but for the timely action of some workmen in its vicinity and members of the Paddington Volunteer Fire Brigade, who ware promptly on the [?]ene, might have proved most serins, occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—"Prevention is better than cure." If there were a law made that during the performance in all public places of amusements, a fireman should sit at the side with a hydrant in his hands ready in case of a spark falling on a dress or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Information has been received that three tenements on Newbold Run, the property of Mr. John Connell, law clerk, formerly member for Central Cumberland, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A destructive Are occurred at Charters Towers; two bouses were destroyed. They were insured in the Queensland offices for £250.——The Rockhampton Bulletin…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The other day a fire broke out to one of the Government building at the Quarantine Statton, reanlting int he total destruction of the building, Its origin is attributed to an extensive bush fire that had been ragin; near it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About half-past seven o'clock list night, the various fire-bells rang out an alarm of fire. Several engines proceeded to a shop adjoining Mr. Bernard Gaffney's bakery, in Market-street, where the cause…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PARKES, Tuesday.—Mr. Coleman's premises in Forbes-street ware burned to the ground last night about midnight. Messrs. Hanson and Burney's promises adjoining, and almost attached, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrific thunderstorm broke over Sydney some time during the "small hoars" of this morning. Loud thunderclaps were heard, and vivid flashes of lightning vere seen in all parts of the city, and there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Srs;—The unwelcome news which the above bell communicates, sends a thrill and a shudder through the feelings of all who least it, for there is something…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday morning, a young man, named Charles Bessaker, was experimenting with nitro-glycerine in the house of his brother, James Bessaker, No. 15, Bourke-street, Woolloomooloo, when the chemicals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday, about 11. 30 p.m., the horrid tones of Mr. Brown's gong sounded that ore[?]ded alarm so unmistakeably known as the alarm of fire. At say time the cry of fire is appalling but in an inflammable town like ours it is intensely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two wings of the Maynooth College have been burnt. The loss is serious. The pictures and the laboratory were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 8 o'clock last Saturday evening, a child, aged two years old, the son of Mr. John Vai[?]ey, of Balmain West, near Garryowen, accidentally upset a kerosene lamp, and set fire to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DENILIQUIN, Tuesday.—A fire broke out last night at Jefferson's chemist shop. The damage dose was not serious. A passer by broke open the door, and with the assistance of others…
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