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ADELAIDE, Friday.âThe inquiry into the death of Mr. P. W. Taplin, superintendent of the Point M'Leay native mission station, who was killed at the Hindley-street Coffee Palace on March 22, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—In your issue of yesterday I noticed a letter signed "Civilian" in reply to one signed " A Reserve Rifleman," which appeared in your issue of the 15th instant. If I did not give the writer credit for honesty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The inquiry into the death of Mr. F. W. Taplin, superintendent of the Point M'Leay native mission station, who was killed at the Hindley-street Coffee Palace…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The City Coroner resumed the inquiry to-day into the late fire at the Coffee Palace. Evidence was given by eeveral employees as well as by a fireman. Dr. Whittell, in summing up, condemned the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the invitation of Messrs. Russell and Wormald, a number of gentlemen interested in fire extinguishing assembled at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station on Thursday to witness a trial of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, This Day.--Two incendiary fires are reported from Creswick. Considerable property has been destroyed in each instance. The British Hotel had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A portable fire escape, constructed with three systems of lazy tongs connected together, and arranged to be elevated and lowered by a screw mounted in the platform of a truck, is illustrated…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—A destructive fire brote out early this Morning in Footscray. The fire originated in the premises of Messrs. Dowall, Patterson, and Co., coopers, spreading to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADEL IDE, March 22.— The Coffee Palace in Hinoley street was burned early this morning, and a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Early on Wednesday morning an alarm of a fire at Sixson's Tobacco Factory, at the corner of Elizabeth and Park streets, was raised. Two steamers, two ladders, and a salvage waggon from the Metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 664 →On the morning of the 22nd instant the occupants of the Coffee Palace in Hindley-street, Adelaide, were alarmed by the cry of fire. It proved to be such a sudden outbreak that the inmates had hardly time…
Continued on Trove, page 651 →ADELAIDE, This Day.--The coroner's jury found that the late Mr. Taplin died from suffocation, and that there was no evidence to show how the fire at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the weekly meeting of the Shamrock Club, held at the rooms, 15, Church Hill, on Monday, 25th instant, the following letter was read from a brother of one of the victims of the Wentworth…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →During past twelve months 188 M[?]Iner's Safes preserved their contents against fire and burglars. Agents John Keep and Son, King-street.—[ADVT.]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A man named Bartholomew O'Keefe was brought into the Melbourne hospital to-day suffering from burns. The bed-curtains in his house at Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN eminently satisfactory trial of "The Grinnell Sensitive Automatic Fire Extinguisher and Continuous Fire Alarm" has taken place at the Metropolitan Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HILLSTON, Monday.--The Roto Hotel, situated about 20 miles from Hillston, with almost all the furniture, was burned to the ground yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A disastrous fire occurred here at 2 o'clock this morning. Moss's Telegraph Hotel being burnt to the ground. Very little, if anything, was saved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A fire broke out at the Federal Coffee Palace on Monday night. It appears some bagging at the bottom of the lift caught fire and burnt up the lift shaft to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At twenty-five minutes to 10 o'clock last night a fire was discovered at the corner of Illawarra-road and Woodland-street in premises occupied as coffee roasting works by Messrs. H.A. Martin…
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