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697 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 35
At five minutes past 10, last night, a fire was discovered in a weatherboard workshop occupied by Messrs. Hart and Crispo, builders and contracters, and situated off Wilton-street, Surry Hills. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly before 10 o'clock [?] night a fire broke out on the premises, of Mr. W. Hart, builder and contractor, of Wilton-street, off Devonshire-street, Surry Hills. An alarm was quickly given to the Standard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Sale, Victoria, a disgraceful outrage was comcommitted last week, when the house in which the lasses of the Salvation Army reside wag set on fire. Fortunately the fire, before much damage was done,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →MELBOURNE, Friday,--An extensive fire broke out to-day at E.L. Zeueken and Co.'s oil and color store, Flinders street, which did great damaget the tuck before the flames were got under. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Sunday.--A fire occurred in Queen-street yesterday morning. It destroyed M[?] chemist shop and contents, and two adjoining houses. The Goldsmith's Company, who have a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out to-day in the shop of Messrs. Clarke and Co., chemists, Queen-street. The flames were extinguished at about 1 p.m. The shop was gutted. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two birdcatchers, James Smith and John Shepherd, camped near Gunbower, hare laid an information against Mounted-constable Shanks for having attempted to born their tent early on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A large and destructive fire occurred in the drapery establishment of Mr. Smith, known as Te Are House in Wellington, N.Z. When one of the gas jets in the window was being lit the flames touched some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—I trust you will allow me, on behalf of the members of the above company, to write a few remarks concerning the action of the Fire Brigades Board in applying to the Petersham Borough Council…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two of the Utica Fire Alarms have been fitted up, one at the corner of Pitt and Market streets and the other at the corner of George and Gipps streets. If these two give satisfaction others will be fixed at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Superintendent of Fire Brigades (Mr. William D. Bear) has supplied us with come information respecting the two fire alarms which have recently been fi[?]ed up in the ciry. One is crected at the corner of Pitt and Market…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A new system of fire alarms is now being tried by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board this city. It is known as that of the Utica Fire-alarm Telegraph Company of New York, and under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Harden Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher (illustrated in this issue) consists of a glass globe filled with a chemical fluid, highly saturated with, and generating in fire-heat, an immense volume of…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A large and destructive fire occurred in the drapery establishment of Mr. Smith, known as Te Aro House, in Wellington, N.Z. When one of the gas jots in the window was being lit the flames touched some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →In a lengthy memorandum on the controversy between the Petersham Volunteer Company and the Fire Brigades Board Mr. W. D. Bearce superintendent M.F.B., writes that when fully considering the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--The premises between the Norfolk Arms and Cunningham's, in Rundle-street, occupied by a tobacconist, photographer, and tea dealer, were destroyed by fire yesternight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. J. George Walker, of the Petersham Volunteer Fire Brigade, writes in answer to Mr. Beare, superintendent M.B.F. that the present fire station is quite as central as that proposed by the superintendent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A destructive fire broke out to-day in New Plymouth, by which 13 buildings were destroyed. The damage is estimated at £20,000, and the insurances [?]ver [?]-half that amount…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In this case John Stuart, of Marrickville, sought to recover £172 from the Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Company, being interest at 8 per cent on the sum of £17,500 for 22 days, from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was an action brought by John Stuart, of Marrickville, against the Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Limited, to recover the sum of £172 for interest on £17,500 at 8 per cent, for 22 daya, from the 1st to…
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