A Fire Brigade on Strike
BRISBANE, Friday.--A fire occurred at Albion early tills morning, and being outside the boundary, the brigade, under instructions, refused to attend. Afterwards it was learnt that a small…
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A Suspicious Fire. Two Persons Committed
WOLLONGONG, Saturday.—A fire occurred in a grocery store at Dapto on May 17 last under such suspicious circumstances that the inquest was deferred till yesterday, when evidence of a very damaging…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Near Brisbane. a Church Destroyed. BRISBANE
A fire occurred at Albion early this morning, but being outside the boundary the brigade, under instructions recently issued, did not attend. It was afterwards…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PROSPECT. Fire at Mr. G. A. Smith's Hotel
On Sunday night at about 10 p.m., Mr. G. A. Smith hiring occasion to visit the stables in rear of his house, found a threatening conflagration rapidly gaining ground in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Quadricycle Fire Engine. (See illustrations on this page.)
The illustrations show a quadricycle fire engine that attracted considerable attention at the recent bicycle exhibition at Paris, and which presents unquestionable advantages…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Fire at Newtown
A fire broke out last night at 31 Cavendish-street, Newtown, in the occupancy of Mr. P. Murphy. A kerosene lamp that was left burning on a table in one of the rooms is thought to have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Enmore
The residence of Mr. P. Murphy, 31 Cavendish-street, Enmore, was the scene of a conflagration about 9 o'clock last night. The alarm was given, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Outbreaks of Fire
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call on Saturday night to 168 Palmer-street, Woolloomooloo, occupied by George Crewan, a carter. The flames were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Dapto. Two Persons Committed for Trial. WOLLONGONG
An inquest was held at Dapto yesterday afternoon concerning a fire which occurred in a grocery store on the Main South Coast-road, Dapto, occupied by Mrs. Mary Ella…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—The municipal conference to-day rejected a motion in favor of municipal fire insurance, the opinion of the conference being that if legislation were adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Near Nundle
NUNDLE, Monday.—Late on Saturday night, at Bowling Alley Point, six miles off, the residence of Mr. Letcher, was burnt down; £3 was lost in the fire. The owner of the property is Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire At Waterloo
A fire was discovered shortly before midnight last night in a bedroom at 67 Morehead street, Waterloo, in the occupancy of Mrs. Stock. The bed and bedding were severely damaged. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on a Ship
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—A fire broke out on Monday night in the lazarette of the ship Commonwealth, which is lying at the Dyke. The fire was promptly extinguished by the crew. Two coils of rope…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destruction of a Wheat Ship by Fire
Messrs. J. I. Folk and Co., of this city, yesterday received particulars by the R.M.S. Monowai of the burning at sea of the British barque Centaur, laden with wheat, and bound from San Francisco to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Newcastle. Newcastle
Early this morning a compositor named Milton when going home saw smoke issuing from the roof of a two-storeyed brick house on Hamilton-road. He went to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on a Coal-laden Vessel
A report was received yesterday from the East that the British steamer Tennyson, on a voyage from Vladivostock and Nagasaki with a cargo mostly of coal for Hamburg, put into Manila on the morning of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Big Fire
Shortly before 6 o'clock on June 17 two warehouses, Nos. 226 and 228 Clarence-street, Sydney, were discovered to be on fire, and, despite the utmost efforts of a large staff of firemen, the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire at Kogarah
Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in a weatherboard house at Ramsgate-road. Kogarah. The premises, which were owned by Mr. Max Ludolph, of Doll's Point, were unoccupied. "When…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire at Canley Vale
A fire by which the premises of Wharton, Carter, and Co., at Canley [?] were totally destroyed, took place between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday morning. The…
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