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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1895

1,997 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 100

A Canterbury Fire Brigade

Evening News · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 6

A public meeting was held last night at the Canterbury Town Hall with the two-fold object of condemning the action of the Fire Brigades' Board in regard to…

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A Ship on Fire. Good Salvage Work

Evening News · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 4

While on his way to Rio Janeiro, from which port he arrived at Sydney on Sunday, the captain of the ship Annie Maud fell in with a…

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Sons of Fire. All Rights Reserved. Chapter XXVI.--(Continued)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 April 1895 · page 2

He spoke in his lightest tone; but he was looking worn and ill, and there were all the signs of sleeplessness in his haggard face…

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Fire on a Mail Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 5

A fire took place on board the French mail steamer Australien on her voyage from Marseilles to Australia. The vessel arrived at Adelaide yesterday, and a…

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Fire on the French Mail Steamer

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 6

The Messageries Maritimes steamship Australian arrived at Adelaide this morning from Marseilles, and reports that a fire occurred in the after hold when…

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Sons of Fire. All Rights Reserved. Chapter Xxvii. -- (Continued.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 April 1895 · page 3

Roumariza looked upon Cecil Patrington's party with the eye of favor, and upon their leader as an old friend -- nay, almost a subject of his own, so familiar was…

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A Fire Engine

Evening News · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 3

At the last meeting of the Newtown Council a letter was read from the Erskineville Council asking the council to act with them in a deputation to the…

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Fire on an Australian Trader

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 5

A startling incident occurred on the voyage of the steamer Warrnambool, of Lund's line, from London to Australia. According to a report received yesterday from…

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Sons of Fire. All Rights Reserved. Chapter XXVIII.--(Continued.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 2

From the first hour that he played by the camp fire, on the third night after they left Bagamoyo, Geoffrey's music had given him a hold over the more…

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Victoria. Mercantile Bank of Australia. Lighting a Fire with a Company's Books

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 April 1895 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--An examination was held in insolvency to day in the estate of the Mercantile Bank of Australia, under an order of the Supreme…

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Fire in the City

The Australian Star · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 5

At about a quarter--past 8 last night a small fire occurred at promises 46 and 48 Margaret-street, city, a boarding house occupied by F. Hollingworth…

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Sons of Fire. All Rights Reserved. Chapter XXVIII.--(Continued.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 April 1895 · page 2

Panther, crocodile, tempest, fever, or sunstroke, poisoned arrows from murderous foes, were only so many varieties in the story of adventure. Through every…

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Bush Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 5

MUDGEE. Friday. --Disastrous bush fires are raging in various parts of the district Eight hundred areas of pasture at the Cooyal paddocks and a large quantity of…

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Sherwood. Fire

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 6

A disastrous fire occurred last week in the Smithfield district, when the premises, formerly occupied by Messrs. Hepworth and Douglass, were totally destroyed by fire. The occupants,…

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A Ship on Fire

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 20

While on his way to Rio Janeiro, from which port he arrived at Sydney on Sunday, the captain of the ship Annie Maud fell in with a…

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Fire at a Hotel

The Australian Star · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 5

At twenty minutes past 7 last night a slight fire broke out in a room of the Gros. venor Hotel, Church Hill. The outbreak, which was caused by the leakage of a gas…

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Fire on S.S. Australien

Evening News · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 4

A fire aboard this steamer caused the total destruction of 680,000 Frossard's Cavour Cigars.—4…

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Sons of Fire. All Rights Reserved Chapter Xxix -- KIGAMBO (Kigambo: Unexpected calamity, slavery or death.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 12

The rainy season was over. The moving wall of water wan down. The travellers were no longer kept awake at night by the ceaseless roar of the rain. The lake lay…

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American News. By the Mariposa. The Vanderbilt Divorce. Great Fire at Toronto--Desperate Bank Robbery--The Fort of Spain In Flames-Battle at Cucula--The Streets Strewn with Dead

The Australian Star · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 8

Mrs. Alva E. Vanderbilt was on March 5 granted a divorce by the New York Supreme Court from William K. Vanderbilt. The whole proceedings were kept secret,…

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Fire at Wagga

Evening News · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 6

The Standard Insurance Company's Sydney office to-day received word that rate house and furniture of Mr. M'Grath at Wagga were last night destroyed by…

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