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A NEW paint has been invented and has formed the subject of a number of experiments in London. The peculiarity of this paint is that, a large proportion of asbestos being mixed up with the ordinary ingredients…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →LONDON, March 31.—Ampheast College, Massachusetts, has been completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at fully £50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London, March 31.—Ampheast College, Massachusetts, has been completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at fully £500,000.ARREARS OF RENT IN IRELAND…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire took place this morning, shortly after 10 o'clock, in an empty house. No. 25 Stephen-street, Surry Hills. The house is tho property of Mr. William Perry, draper, of George-street, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The adjourned quarterly, meeting of the No. 3 Volunteer Fire Brigade was held on Tuesday evening last. Mr. W S. Kelly, superintendent, occupied the chair. About 40 members of the brigade attended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A few minutes before 5 o'clock last evening a fire broke out in Pitt-street, and the bells from the various stations very soon rang out tho alarm. Clouds of smoke were at once seen to be issuing from above the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At about 5 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, the various fire brigade stations rang out clamorous alarms of fire, and dense clouds of smoke indicated some serious conflagration. The engines were speedily out and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Again the alarm bells rang out Friday-time, I o'clock-when the members of the Various brigades were quietly fitting down, to dinner. But duty before (Captain Marriatt says) "decenoy;" but the firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At five minutes to 1 o'clock this morning another alarm was rung out from the various stations, and soon the different brigades were on their way to the scene of the fire, which was found to be on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir.-- Referring to your paragraph in Wednesday's issue, wherein currency is given to the report that the Government have determined to make an examination of the theatres, &c., the sooner official action…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A painful accident happened at about 12 p.m. yesterday (?) at a house in Albion-street, occupied by John M'Loughlin, a shoemaker. A little girl named Mary Morgan, aged five years, by some unexplained…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FEW minutes before 5 p.m. on Wednesday a fire broke out in Pitt-street, and the bells from the various stations very soon rang out the alarm. Clouds of smoke were at once seen to be issuing from above the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The usual quarterly meeting of the above brigade was held in the engine-station, Booth-street, on Friday evening, April 7. About 20 members of the brigade were present, and Mr. Sergent occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few minutes after midnight on Saturday the alarm of fire irma rung out from the Insurance station, and a few minutes later several engines were in front of the house occupied by William Terry, 537,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN alarm of fire was given about half-past 7 o'clock last evening, at the Woolahra branch station, Waverley. It turned out to be at the residence of a German carpenter's, off Conyer (?) street, Waverley…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night No. 3 Volunteer Fire Brigade held its quarterly meeting at the head station. Bathurstreet. Superintendent General Kelly was in the chair, about 30 members being present. From the auditor's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, April 17.—A fire has occurred at Bolton, in Lancashire. The Opera House was burnt, the loss being estimated at £15,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 4 o'clock this morning the bells rang out the alarm in Sydney, and very soon tho various fire brigades of the city and suburbs where proceeding towards Redfern, from which portion of the town the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The theatre at Schwerin, capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in the north of Germany, has been totally destroyed by fire. The audience, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 4 a.m. yesterday a fire occurred in the lost property office at the Redfern railway station, and before it could be extinguished all the miscellaneous articles in the room were destroyed…
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