Fire Brigade Telephones
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 August 1881 · page 14
Mr. D. O'Connor, M.P., with Messrs. Trickett, Hazlett, and Fremlin, M's.P., introduced a deputation to the Postmaster-General last Friday on behalf of the United Fire Brigades to ask for telephonic…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire in Dixon-street
Evening News · Tuesday 9 August 1881 · page 2
A fire toot place at half-past 6 o'clock this morning at the residence of Mrs. Jessie Bant, 103, Dixon-street, near the Haymarket. The building is a four roomed cottage, and the fire originated in the front…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Gastlereagh-street. a Bedding Manufactory Destroyed
Evening News · Tuesday 9 August 1881 · page 2
SHORTLY after 10 o'clock this morning a fire was discovered in a shed occupied by Mr. T. A. Godson, manufacturer of composite and expansive bedsteads, 323, Castlereagh-street. The building where the fire…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 August 1881 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph
Mr. T. A. Godson's (late J. Murray's) steam bedding and bedstead manufactory was totally destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The factory was situated at the rear of the showrow, No. 323, Castlereagh-street, and also at the back of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →St. Leonards Fire Brigade
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 August 1881 · page 6
The friends of the St. Leonards Fire Brigade mustered in large number last night in order to accord a benefit to the brigade. A torchlight demonstration took place, and was succeeded by a dramatic and musical entertainment,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Castlereagh-street. a Bedding Manufactory Destroyed
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 August 1881 · page 15
SHORTLY after 10 o'clock Tuesday morning a fire was discovered in a shed occupied by Mr. T. A. Godson, manufacturer of composite and expansive bedsteads, 323, Castlereagh-atreet. The building where the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire at Glen Innes. Glen Innes
Evening News · Monday 15 August 1881 · page 2
A building used as a back store by Mr. James Munro, storekeeper, was completely burnt at 8 o'clock this morning. The cause of the fire is at present unknown. The premises were insured,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extensive Fire at Gympie. [By Electric Telegraph.] Brisbane
The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 August 1881 · page 3
A telegram was received in the city today, stating that a disastrous fire had broken out at Gympie, which resulted in the total destruction of 12 shops. It occurred at 4 o'clock this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chronicle. Ruth Wyngate: a Tale of Old and New England. Chapter Xxiv. Coals of Fire
The Protestant Standard · Saturday 20 August 1881 · page 6
" And judge none lost, but wait and see, With hopeful pity, not disdain." ADELAIDE A. PROCTOR. IT was a soft, mild night ; the light, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Kempsey. Central Kempsey
Evening News · Monday 22 August 1881 · page 2
The bakery, at the rear of W. T. Dangar's saddlery establishment, occupied by Mr. A. Cumming, was burnt to the ground about 2 o'clock on Sunday morning. The fire originated in the roof,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire at Ta-li. London, Aug. 20
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 August 1881 · page 5
The town of Ta-li, in China, has been neatly half destroyed by fire. The damage done is estimated at 400,000 dollars. None of the inhabitants were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Strawberry Hills
Evening News · Tuesday 23 August 1881 · page 2
Between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning, an alarm was brought to the South Sydney Volunteer Fire Brigade, No. 4, that a fire had broken out in Mr. Audsley's premises, at the corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Fire
Evening News · Friday 26 August 1881 · page 2
A fire was discovered at 178, George-street west, near Newtown-road, this morning about 3 o'clock, in an ironmonger's shop in the occupation of Mr. Thomas May. It originated at the rear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Phillip-street
Evening News · Saturday 27 August 1881 · page 5
Shortly after 9 o'clock this morning, as Mr. Ewer, the secretary of the Church Society, entered the society, rooms in Phillip-street, by the side door in the yard, he noticed smoke in the large…
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Evening News · Saturday 27 August 1881 · page 4
A fire occurred this morning in Hunter-street, consuming Moore's drapery store and stock, the Steampacket Hotel, boarding house and tobacconist's shop, and damaging empty stores. The…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 August 1881 · page 3
About 4 p.m. on Saturday a fire occurred near Hay's brickyard, Military Road, North Shore, in a house occupied by a man named Edward Walters. The fire took place during the temporary absence…
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Evening News · Monday 29 August 1881 · page 3
On Saturday afternoon, about half-past 3 o'clock, a fire broke oat in a two-story weatherboard house in Ernest-street, off the Military-road, St. Leonards An alarm wag qnickly sent to the St. Leonaras Fire…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 August 1881 · page 3
About 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a wooden tenement occupied as a drapery establishment by Mr. Richard Moore, of Hunter-street. Drs. Page and Cappage, with Mr. T. F. Whistler,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Fire in Newcastle. Further Particulars. Newcastle
Evening News · Monday 29 August 1881 · page 3
AN alarming fire broke out in Hunter-street just before 2 o'clock thia morning. The fire first appeared in a wooden store, occupied by Richard AJoore, linen draper. Drs. Page and Cusifago,…
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