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Four new steam fire engines are to be provided by the Metropolitan Board for use in the suburbs. The new fire tower will be the highest building in Melbourne (150ft.) and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two collisions occurred on Saturday afternoon between ferry boats which, although happily unattended by any loss of life, were vet of a sufficiently dangerous character to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday at 3 o'clock a.m. the M.F.B. received a call to attend a fire at Hatfield-street, off King-street, North Botany. The premises were occupied and owned by a Chinese cabinetmaker named…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An extensive fire broke out in the premises of Fred Suery, a Chinese cabinetmaker, in Hatfield-street, off King-street, North Botany, at an early hour yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, June 14.—A great fire lias taken place at Chicora, Pennsylvania. Hundreds of houses were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four persons have been arrested on a charge of having caused the recent fire in the Przebram silver mine, which entailed a great loss of life. This step has been taken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A great fire has taken place at Chicora, in Pennsylvania. Hundreds of homes were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During a thunderstorm a British petroleum steamer lying in the harbor at Blaye, France, was struck by lightning. Twenty persons who were on board the steamer were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the charge division of the Central Police Court to-day Henry George Gleeson, a man of middle age, was charged with having conspired to accuse Alexander Ogden with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British petroleum steamer which took fire lying in the harbor at Blaye, Prance, as the Petrolia. The fire was caused by drunken sailors dropping matches, and not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This morning, at 4.25, the M.F.B. headquarters station received a call from the watchman at the Theatre Royal, notifying that that building was afire. The brigade at once turned out with three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Looking up the record of these occurrences we find that Sydney has been remarkably free from this kind of trouble. The first fire is reported to have occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This theatre was burnt down on October 3,1860, when the lives of three civilians were lost. It was rebuilt, and on the morning of January 6,1872, was again the scene of a conflagration. This time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A little diversion from the ordinary quietude of municipal politics occurred at the meeting of the Rookwood Council on Wednesday evening on the presentation of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE locality in this city bounded by Pitt, Castlereagh, King, and Hunter streets would appear to have more than its share of trouble from fire. To a rather…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 4.30 this morning an alarm was received at the M.F.B. Station from Leichhardt notifying that a fire had broken out in the tobacco factory of J. H. Mayer, Short-street. The Leichhardt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE of the most extraordinary matters connected with the fire was the remarkable quietude which prevailed at the Hotel Australia. From the position of that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At about 4.25 this morning the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received an alarm for a fire at the Theatre Royal, King-street. The Brigade, ably assisted by a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT has gone at last, the Theatre Royal, the historic playhouse of the city, and it went by fire between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning. From what cause the outbreak occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "pixies," who some say carry the sparks of fire about, seem to have had a strange liking for this particular site in Castlereagh-street. Four theatre fires have…
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