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238 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 12
Now that warm weather is coming, and fires in the drawing-room are dispensed with, it becomes a matter of consideration how to make fire-places, which are not elaborately carved or naturally handsome, look…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →A FIRE which, destructive as it proved, might, but for the means promptly taken to suppress it, have been much more disastrous in its results, occurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRAIDWOOD, Friday.—The Convent of the Good Samaritan was burnt to the ground to-day. The fire burnt rapidly, and all attempts to save the building failed. The building was uninsured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GUNDAGAI, Tuesday.—Two large stacks of hay at Jones's Creek, one mile from here, were totally destroyed by fire early this morning. They were the property of Mr. John Sells. Incendiarism is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At about two o'clock on Friday afternoon (says the Dispatch) an alarm was given that the Convent of the Saered Heart was on fire. This turned out to be too true, and from the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Between 12 and 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning, reports the GUNDAGAI TIMES OF THE 30th, Mr. Donald Maclean, who had shortly before retired to bed hearing an unusual noise, looked out and discovered that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAIRNS, Tuesday.—On the 29th, Skiffins hotel was destroyed by fire. The buildings on each side were much damaged. The hotel was insured in the Brisbane Insurance Office.—Mr. Mowbray, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last night, between 8 and 9 o'clock, the explosion of a kerosene lamp gave serious alarm to the inhabitants of Market-lane. The house in which the explosion took place is in the tenacy of Mr. C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous fire has occurred at Blackburn; Lancashire. The damage is estimated at half a million sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MURRURUNDY, Friday.—A fire broke out at the Commercial Stores last night, but, on its being immediately discovered, was extinguished without much lots, through the exertions of several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday.—A large wooden building at Warwick has been destroyed by fire; cause not yet ascertained.—At Gladstone a bakery and a private dwelling ware totally destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our correspondent writes:—Mr. C. Whitemad and the Inhabitant of Camden were alarmed at about 3 o'clock yesterday morning by a report at though come explosion had taken place, and on looking out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NARRANDERA, Saturday.—The store of Mr. Carl Mannish was burnt to the ground. Less, about £3000. Insurance, about £1000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Monday.—A serious fire occurred in Wharf-street, Maryborough, this morning, at 1 o'clock, destroying Blue's Melbourne Hotel and Travers's goods store. A large quantity of spirits,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Narranders correspondent writes:—A most disastrons fire occurred here on the morning of the 20th instant, by which the whole of the main portion of the newly erected premises of Max, [?] and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What probably would bare been a great conflagration was timely prevented last night. Between 11 and 12 o'clock, Mr. J. Stuart (a member of the Sydney Volunteer Fir Company No. 2), while…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out about 3 o'clock yesterday morning, at Fire Dock, Ryde. in the dupery store owned and occupied by air. Clayton. On discovering that the place was in flames, the surrounding inhabitants…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DENILIQUIN, Monday.—Messrs. M'Culloch and Company's offices were burnt down to-day. The bonded stores were eared. The works are said to have been destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For several hours on August 7 a fire was raging at the proof-butts, of the Royal Arsonal, Woolwich, defying the most persistent efforts of the firemen and resulting in very serious damage to the whole structure. Unlike ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DENILIQUEN, Tuesday.—At the die which occurred yesterday afternoon at M'Culloch and Co.'s forwarding agent's offices, the office and a greater part of their books were destroyed. The shed of…
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