Disastrous Fire at Philadelphia. London, March 26
A disastrous fire occurred to-day at Philadelphia. The destruction of property was immense. The Elephant and Castle Hotel and the Theatre were burned down…
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The Year's Fires
WE are in receipt of the annual report of the Insurance Fire Brigade for the year 1877. The superintendent of the brigade (Mr. Charles Bown) reports that the expenditure for the past year has…
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The TIEN-TSIN correspondent of the NORTH CHINA HERALD says that about 10 o'clock on the morning of January 7 a fire broke out among the matcheds in one of the relief yards just outside the…
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A disastrous fire occurred to day at Philadelphia. The distinction of property was immense. The Elephant and Castle Hotel and the Theatre were burned…
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Curious incidents have reached us (says the MARYBOROUGH AND DUNOLLY ADVERTISER) about how the fire came down like a thief in the night upon the inhabitants of Nullaware, which is heavily…
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Yesterday morning the fire-bells rang out an alarm, and fire-engines proceeded to a row of houses in Ann-street, off Kent-street. It would appear that a foul chimney in one of the houses caught fire, and…
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GUNDAGAI, Thursday.—Hayes's steam flour mill, at Spring Flat, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The mill was full of grain, and a large quantity belonged to the farmers of the…
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This new addition to our means of prevention from the dire effects of fire may now be said to be fairly started, and being about to purchase an engine, the brigade will, no doubt, be shortly in a position to…
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The Ballarat Courier says that the utility of the telephone, as a means of communication was ex[?]pli[?] yesterday, when some very interesting and successful experiments took place between the city and…
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The City Coroner, to-day, resumed from yesterday an enquiry at Lambourne's Family Hotel, at Manly, respecting the circumstances attending the last fire which occurred at Mrs. Sargeant's Clarendom…
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An extensive fire has occurred on the premises of Nelson and Sons, publishers, of Edinburgh…
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The annual [?] to celebrate the formation of the Newtown and Camperdown Volunteer Fire Brigade, took place in the Town Hall, Newtown, on Monday evening last. The hall was crowded to…
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ELEVENTH half-yearly report and balance-sheet, presented at the general meeting of shareholders, held at the office of the company, Queen-street, Auckland, on Monday April 8, 1878…
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THE inquiry into the circumstances connected with the fire which broke out between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning of the 3rd instant, at the Clarendon Hotel, Manly, terminated yesterday afternoon, when, as will be seen below, the jury…
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I REGRET to have to record a very tractive fire on the premises of Mr William Stieme, the well-known fruit-grower, at Sherwood, on the evening of…
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An extensive fire has occurred on the premises of Nelson and Sons, publishers, of Edinburgh…
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So wrote Will Shakespeare a few years ago, and so has a very worthy man, Will Camb, upon many an occasion for some seventeen years, in the interest of the, lives and property, actually done. President of No. 2 Volunteer Fire Brigade, generally first in attendance in…
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THE annexed papers were prepared for reading before the Sydney Royal Society's meeting of December last, 1877, but they were objected to by the members of the council then sitting, on the plea "that the paper might cause the…
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