Alleged Attempt to Fire a Ship
Richard Carter, watchman of the barqqe Dunkow, was charged before Mr. Addison, S.M, at the Water Police Court, yesterday, with, attempting wilfully to set fire to the barque…
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Alleged Attempt to Fire the Barque Woollahra
Richard Carter, 28, seaman, was charged before the Water Police Court on Monday with attempting wilfully to set fire to the barque Woollahra while lying at the Circular Quay, Port Jackson…
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At the Water Police Court, yesterday (before Mr. G. W. F. Addison, S.M.), Richard Curler was charged with wilfully attempting to set fire to the barque Woollahra, now lying at the Circular Quay. Water Police-constable Henry…
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At an early hour yesterday morning a fire broke out at the residence of Mr. H. G. Fraser, Strathfield, near Redmyre, and damage estimated at about £600 was done. The fire…
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RAYMOND TERRACE, Thursday.--Mr. Ross chemist's shop and dwelling-house were totally destroyed by fire at about 1 o'clock this morning. The building, which was composed of…
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The extent of the damage done may be more fully gathered from the fire brigade's report:— 352, Pitt-street, Messrs. Cameron Brothers, tobacco manufacturers, a building of four floors, about 110 x…
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It is many a long day since so much destruction has been caused by fire in this city as was accomplished last night at Cameron's tobacco factory. Over a hundred thousand pounds worth of…
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Last night one of the most extensive fires which have occurred in the city for several years past, indeed it might be said without parallel since the destruction of the Garden Palace, took place at Cameron and Sons' tobacco factory,…
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A shop and dwelling in (be occupation of Mr. Ross, chemist, was burned to the giound at an early hour this morning. Mr. Ross accounts for the origin of the Ara as follows:—He went into the shop at half-past 12 to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Fire in Sydney. Cameron's Tobacco Factory Totally Destroyed. Estimated Damage, £110,000. Insurance Nearly £40,000. the Whole City Illuminated
One of the largest fires--if not the largest --the city of Sydney has ever seen occurred last evening, when Messrs. Cameron and Co.'.s tobacco factory was destroyed. Sydney…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday,--A four-roomed cottage at Wallsend, the property of a miner named Joseph Storer, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The fire originated through a child…
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On Monday evening last at about 8 o'clock a fire broke out in a builder's workshop at the rear of Mr. Smith's property in Jarrett-street. The shed was…
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One of the most disastrous fires which have occurred in the colony since the destruction of the Sydney Garden Palace broke out yesterday evening at the intersection of…
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About 10 o'clock on Thursday night a fire broke out in Cameron's Tobacco Factory, at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool streets. The alarm was, of course, quickly spread and numbers of…
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RAYMOND TERRACE, Friday.--A coroner's inquest took place to-day in connection with the fire which occurred yesterday morning, by which the premises in the occupation of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire-brigades' New Hose-reel
"The boys," meaning the members of the Balmain Volunteer Fire Brigade, received from Melbourne on Monday a new and elegant hose-reel, with which they are…
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There is little to add to what has already been published with respect to the destructive fire at Cameron's Virginia Tobacco Factory on Thursday night. The buildings are now a complete wreck, and nothing…
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Mr. F. Condy, of the London Ham Shop Oxford-street, has forwarded to the [?] of this journal a cheque for £[?]0 as a subscription in aid of the unfortunate Workpeople who have been thrown out of…
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The shop and dwelling in the occupation of Mr. Ross, chemist, was razed to the ground by fire at an early hour this morning. Mr. Ross accounts for the origin of the fire as follows:—He went into the shop at half-past 12 to…
Continued on Trove, page 666 →Alleged Attempt to Set Fire to the Barque Woollahra
At the Water Police Court, on Monday (before Mr. G. W. F. Addison, S.M.), Richard Carter was charged with willfully attempting to set fire to the barque Woollahra, now lying at the Circular Quay. Water Police-constable Henry…
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