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710 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 36
At about 10 o'clock on Thursday night a fire broke ont in the press room of Cameron's Tobacco Factory, at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool streets, Sydney, and rapidly spread to the other portions of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Few sights arc more melancholy than that of a once stately pile of buildings in ruins. Most painful is this feeling when it is realised that within a few hours, what seemed to be an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FROM 10 o'clock last night (Thursday) until day light this morning a very large number of the inhabitants of the city and suburbs were attracted to the vicinity of Hyde Park by a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →CANOWINDRA, Monday.--Boyd's stores here were burnt down yesterday morning at 4 o'clock. The estimated loss of stock is over £2000, which was insured in the Phoenix Office…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir.—Noticing a rebuke in your issue of Saturday directed against the apathy of the laboring classes in sot organising a movement to relieve some of the distress occasioned by the above fire, I would throw…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE ball given under the auspices of the Granville Fire Brigade at the School of Arts on Friday night was a pro[?]ncd success, and proved one of the most enjoyable reunions held…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a shop occupied by Mr. G. M'Lellan, storekeeper, at Burwoud. The building and everything it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Tuesday evening a fire broke out in Hudson’s mammoth works at Clyde, and the probability is that had it not been discovered and checked at an early stage the huge establishment…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The scene at the fire at Cameron's Tobaooo Factory in Sydney last week was a grand and terrible one. The building was an imposing structure, four storeys in height, and surmounted by a cupola. The…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Last week we chronicled the destruction by fire of Cameron's Tobacco Factory on the eight of the 23rd ultimo. The fire was burning when we went to press, and our report was necessarily devoid of many particulars…
Continued on Trove, page 700 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Gibbs, Foster, Meeks, Hussall, Hyam, Spring and Teece, Ms.P., and Captains Lane, Love, Woods, Torning, and Messrs. J. Marsh and Rogers, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ORANGE, Monday.--a destructive fire occurred here last night at about 11 o'clock, when Bonnor's chaff-shed in M'Namara-street, built of weatherboard and roofed with iron, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An explosion of fire-damp took place on Saturday at Silkstone Colliery, near Barnsley, in Yorkshire. Twenty lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A special meeting of the St. Leonards Volunteer Fire Brigade was held in the Mount-street station, North Shore, on Tuesday night. Mr. Bear, superintendent of fire brigades, attended…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Parramatta Volunteer Fire Brigade, No. 1, was held at the engine station on Tuesday evening last. Captain De S[?]xe presided, and there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE destruction of Cameron's tobacco factory, at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool Streets, was one of the most extensive conflagrations with which the city of Sydney has been visited. Indeed, as a spectacle, it has only…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A sad calamity is reported from Lake Macqnarie. The Magnificent villa of Mr. Quigley was burned to the ground. The cause of the fire was supposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning, at about 11.40 o'clock, a the broke out in the hay and corn store of Cornelius Hannan, 181 Regent-street, Redfern, and despite every effort to check it, it resulted in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A large fire occurred in Petersham last night, by which four buildings were destroyed. At about 9.50 p.m. the M.F.B. received a call and were speedily on the scene of the conflagration in Parramatta-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--Messrs. Lang and Wyife's timber-yard, near the A. A. Company's wharf, was the scene of another conflagration yesterday afternoon. It appears a quantity of…
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