Rockdale Fire Brigade
ON New Year's night a banquet in connection with the Rockdale Fire Brigade was held in the hall adjoining the Rockdale fire station. The hall was tastefully decorated…
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Fire in Bond-street
ABOUT 6.30 yesterday evening a fire was discovered at Foy's-chambers, Bond-street, on the second floor, occupied by Messrs. R. C. Morris and Co., costumiers and…
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EXACTLY at 12 o’clock on Wednesday night the bell at No. 1 station rang the old year out and the new one in, and notified to the members of both brigades that their services were…
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ON Boxing Day a fire broke out on the grounds of the Carmelite Convent at Marrickville. On the Cooks' River portion of the convent property there is an old tannery, originally built by the…
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GYMPIE (Q.), Saturday.—At 12.30 a.m. a large fire broke out a few floors below the Mining Exchange Hotel, and is now raging with great fury. The premises of Ferguson Broths (storekeepers),…
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A fire occurred last night about 9.45 in a house in Noorinan-street, belonging to Mr. G. L. Fuller, which was totally destroyed. Fortunately the late tenant whose name is…
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An extensive fire broke out at Gympie about 1 o'olock this morning, and at latest advices was raging with great fury. The premises of Ferguson Brothers,…
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Waters' old rookery situated on vacant land belonging to the South Estate, Kempsey, was burnt down' yesterday afternoon. Our junior member of Parliament, with the assistance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News by Cable. Terrible Calamity. Fearful Scene at a Bazaar. Fourteen Children on Fire
LONDON, January 2.—Fourteen children were engaged taking part in a Christmas play at a bazaar in Leeds, Yorkshire, for the benefit of a church, when the dress of…
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YOUNG, Monday.—Bush fires are reported from Berthong and Lake Cowal. The thermometer yesterday registered 102deg in the shade. There was a dust storm during the day…
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On Saturday night, at 11.30, a fire occurred in a shop in Bent-street, occupied by a grocer named Charles Spencer. The doors were forced open by some private individuals, and the blaze was put…
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WAGGA WAGGA, Monday. -- An inquest was held on Saturday touching the origin of the fire which destroyed a stable on Boxing night. Margaret Anne Davis was before…
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LONDON, January 3.—A great fixe occurred in New York at midnight on Friday, during which the Fifth. Avenue Theatre and Hermann's Theatre were completely gutted…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday. -- About 1 o'clock yesterday morning the watchman at Mr. Jas. Russell's foundry discovered that the pattern-room was on fire. He immediately…
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GYMPIE, Monday.—The fire which broke out in Mary-street, made a clean sweep of every business place from the Times Office to the Mining Exchange Hotel. The places destroyed are:…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.--A disastrous fire broke out in Gympie shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday morning in the contra of the business portion of the town…
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The thermometer registered 112deg. in the shade here yesterday. Hot winds were very strong, and the town was filled with smoke. To-day bush fires are…
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Nothing is known of the origin of the fire at Gympie. A police inquiry is to be held. It has transpired that £103 in notes were kept in a wooden box at the rear of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at a Bazaar. Six Girls Burnt to Death
LONDON, Saturday.--A terrible catastrophe occurred at a bazaar which was being held near Leeds yesterday. Fourteen girls, dressed in garments of cotton wool to…
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