An Incident ef the Fire. Rawson Again
Evening News · Saturday 11 October 1890 · page 6
At the Quarter Sessions yesterday Henry Albert Rawson, alias Dawson and Lawson, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with having stolen the sum of £8 from the person of John…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 October 1890 · page 16
IN our last issue we gave all the particulars it was possible to collect on the morning of going to press of one of the largest fires that ever occurred in Sydney. The fire broke out as stated at Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Attempt to Set Fire to an Hotel. Melbourne, Oct. 2
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1890 · page 821
Four attempts were made to set fire to the Palace Hotel, Bourke-street, last night About 11 o'clock the fire-extinguishing hose was set on to one fire and soon extinguished it. Between 2 and 3…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1890 · page 811
Last week we published a somewhat lengthy account of the calamitous fire in Sydney, the most destructive conflagration that any Australian city ban witnessed. The loss by the destruction of the Garden Palace, eight…
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Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 11 October 1890 · page 16
On October 2, at about 2 a.m., a fire broke out on the premises occupied by the firm of Gibbs, Shallard, and Co., printers, &C., Pitt-street, Sydney. In a little over two hours the flames…
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Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 11 October 1890 · page 18
On October 2, at about 2 a.m., a fire broke out on the premises occupied by the firm of Gibbs, Shallard, and Co., printers, &c., Pitt-street, Sydney. In a little over two hours the flames…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 October 1890 · page 26
On October 2, at about 2 a.m., a fire broke out on the premises occupied by the firm of Gibbs, Shallard, and Co., printers, &c, Pitt-street, Sydney. In a little over two hours the flames…
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Evening News · Monday 13 October 1890 · page 4
At 2.46 a.m. on Sunday, an outbreak of fire occurred at the Town Hall Coffee Palace, 521, George-street; occupant, Hi. Hardy. The seat of the blase was the kitchen, where a quantity of…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 October 1890 · page 4
NEWSCASTLE, Sunday.-- Shortly after 1 o'clock last night a fire occurred in a small shop in Scott-street cast, occupied by Mis Grace Follande. She and her cousin, Thomas Smith…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 October 1890 · page 6
" A Short Treatise on Fire Insurance Surveying," by Mr. A. J. E. Murray, was read by him last Wednesday evening before the Victorian Insurance Institute. In order to…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 October 1890 · page 4
SILVERTON, Saturday.-- The woolshed at Packsaddle station was completely gutted by fire on Tuesday last 40 bales of scoured wool being consumed. Messrs. E. Donnelly and Co…
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The Australian Star · Monday 13 October 1890 · page 2
Sir,-- We desire through the medium of your columns to convoy our sincere thanks to the firemen generally, and to the members of the Standard Brewery Fire Brigade…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 October 1890 · page 6
Sir,-- Immunity from previous disaster seems to have lulled to sleep, or, at any rate, appears to have reduced to a condition of apathy and indifference those who, from motives of…
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Evening News · Wednesday 15 October 1890 · page 5
LONDON, October 13.-Latest particulars to hand regarding ike fatal fire in Alders-gate-street, London, by which six persons were burned to death, show that 30 persons…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 October 1890 · page 5
THE city coroner this morning commenced an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the recent great fire between Pitt and Castlereagh streets…
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Evening News · Wednesday 15 October 1890 · page 5
LONDON, October 13.-A disastrous fire occurred at a hat factory at Smithfield, which, resulted in the death of five girls and one man, many others being injured…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 October 1890 · page 5
GRETA, Tuesday.--The fire at the Leconfield colliery has not extended. The town is fairly quiet…
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Evening News · Wednesday 15 October 1890 · page 4
The inquest into the circumstances touching origin of the great fire, Which broke out in the premises Of Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard, and Co., Hoskings-place, On the morning of the 2nd instant,…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 October 1890 · page 6
THE evidence in the inquest on the great fire, the report of which was commenced in our first edition, page 5, was continued this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in a Hat Factory. Five Girls Killed. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Oct. 13
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 October 1890 · page 7
By a fire in a hat factory at Smithfield, near London, five girls employed in the place and one man were killed, besides which many were injured…
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