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A disastrous fire, fortunately unattended with loss of life, although some very narrow escapes were experienced, broke out at Reed and Son's Coffee Palace, Lydiard-street, Ballarat, about 3 o'clock last Saturday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 799 →In a lecture delivered before the Society of Arts in London, Mr. A. W. C. Shean gave the following directions how to act:—Fire, he pointed out, requires air to feed it. Therefore, on its appearance, every…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →REID'S large coffee palace, Lydiard-street, Ballarat (Victoria), was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. When the fire broke out 50 or 60 persons were asleep in bed…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →GRAFTON, This Day.--A house at the northern end of the town, the property of Mr. John Giese, was destroyed by fire at 2 a.m. this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN alarm of fire was raised in the Guild-ball Hotel, 203, Castlereagh-street, occupied by Mr. T. Green, last evening, about, 8 o'clock. It proved to bo the bed and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE,This Day.--Shortly after [?]ught a fire broke out in the timber[?]d of Bibby and Cook, partly destroying a cargo of pine which had been just…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held before Mr. J. E. Bowden, Parramatta coroner, yesterday, on the body of a child named Ada Stevens, aged four mouths, whose death from injuries received by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--At 20 minutes past 12 o'clock this morning a fire broke out at Messrs. Bibby and Cooke's timber yard, near the A.A. Company's bridge. The flames…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This morning shortly after 2 o'clock a large fire broke out at Pyke's furniture warehouse in Pitt-street near Liverpool-street. The building, which is four stories in height, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after midnight a policeman on duty in Hunter-street observed dense volumes of smoke issuing from the timber yard owned by Bibby and Cooke, near the Government coal staiths. The alarm was promptly given, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. A. B. Pyke, furniture dealer, No. 365,Pitt-street. In answer to an alarm, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade promptly turned out, besides the Standard Brewery,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire Which occurred at Mr. A. B. Pyke's furniture warehouse in Pitt-street early yesterday (morning resulted in serious damage to the building and its contents. The call was given…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—In addition to all the urgent improvements suggested by Mr. Tennent Donaldson's sensible letter, I would further remind our legislators that it is also imperative that the financial position of mutual and proprietary colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister for Mines has received a communication with reference to the prevention of bush fires, from Mr. P. R. Brett, Inspector of Stock at Urana. Mr. Brett reports that the following plans for the prevention of bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 836 →A destructive fire broke out about 1 a.m. of the 12th, on the premises occupied by James Friend, tobacconist and fruiterer, in Iceley-street. The fire woe well under way by the time the residents of the immediate neighbourhood were…
Continued on Trove, page 872 →Extensive bush fires are reported to have been raging during the past week out westward, about the neighbour hood of Big Plian 30 miles from here. In some instances whole paddocks have been completely burned. It is not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GUNNEDAH, This Day.—A large fire occurred here on Saturday night. Eight buildings were destroyed. The town bad a narrow escape…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →QUEANDEYAN, This Day.--A serious fire occurred at Michelage on Saturday night, at Mr. Geo. Tompsitt's form, destroying several hay-ricks containing about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ARMIDALE, Monday.--A disastrous fire took place yesterday at Eversleigh about 12 miles from Armidale, a selector named William Armstrong having his residence and the whole of…
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