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Shortly before noon yesterday the attention of some passers-by in Begent-street, Redfern, was attracted to flames issuing from the roof of the Railway Audit Office. An alarm was immediately succeeded in extinguishing the flames, which by this time had obtained a good hold of the roof. The damage done, however, was only trifling beyond the shingle roof being partially burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cablegram received last week stated that the palace of the Alhambra at Granada, in Spain, was on fire. Fortunately the principal courts were uninjured by the fire, which is said to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →MR. J. C. WOORE, the City Coroner, commenced an inquiry this morning at the Athenaeum Hall, Waverley, concerning the origin of a fire which occurred on September…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE inquiry into the origin of the fire which occurred in an unoccupied house, the property of Dennis Teefy, in Fitzgerald-street, Waverley, last Friday morning, was resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An inquest was commenced in Stratton's Athenseum Hall, Ebley-street. Waverley, yesterday touching the origin of a fire that on the morning of the 26th instant, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner commenced an inquest at the Athe[?] Hall, Waverley, yesterday, [?] the cause of the fire that occurred on the 26th of S[?]ber, in an unoccupied house off Fitzgerald-street, [?]loy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquiry into the circumstances connected with the outbreak of fire which occurred on September 20 in an unoccupied house in Fitzgerald-street, Waverley, was commenced…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →which was one of the most disastrous fires that has ever had to be recorded in Sydney, or perhaps in Australia, occurred in the principal business portion of the city. Start…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY has just experienced the most calamitous fire in its history, an entire block of buildings, mostly new and fine, in one of its busiest quarters having been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The residents of Keona, 31, Elizabeth-street, rendered great assistance, early this morning, in connection with the fire. Owing to the strong wind large quantities…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following extract from the report of the Fire Brigade Board presented to Parliament in March last furnishes some interesting reading at the present time:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The origin of the fire is a mystery. The fire started in Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.'s printing warehouse, where it was stated there was a quantity of fireworks stored…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At 12.30 p.m. there ware some signs of confidence on the part of the firemen that they had full control of the smouldering ruins, for some of the steam engines were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The an [?] inquiry into the circumstances connected with the outbreak of fire in an unoccupied house in Fitzgerald-street, Waverley, on the 26th ult., was continued yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GRETA, Wednesday.--This morning Mr. Cater, manager of the Greta Colliery, found one of the runnels on fire, and from appearances be believes it to be a case of incendiarism…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning the alarm of fire was given, and the scene of what proved to be one of the greatest conflagrations that has happened in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few minutes past 2 this morning, the large premise occupied by Gibbs, Shaliard and Co., printers and publishers, which face into Pitt-street were discovered to be on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At half-past 2 this morning a fire broke out at Gibbs, Shallard, and Co.'s printing and lithographic establis[?]ment, between Pitt and Castlereagh streets. The first intimation was observed from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The wind was light as the first flumes were noticed shooting with lurid glare from the roof of Gibbs, Shallard and Co.'s great buildings. The alarm was given to the…
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