Fire Brigades Board. Annual Report
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 July 1897 · page 14
The annual report of the Fire Brigades Board, which by the way was adopted at a board meeting on April 15th, has been presented to Parliament. It appears that the year closed with an overdraft. For the probable…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 July 1897 · page 9
LONDON, Friday.--The Eiffel tower erected in the pleasure gardens at Blackpool, a favorite Lancashire seaside resort, was yesterday destroyed by fire. Blazing masses of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Lane Cove. the Chicago Flour Mills Burnt Out. the Damage Estimated at £10,000
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 July 1897 · page 5
Early yesterday morning a disastrous fire broke out in Messrs. Clifford Love and Co.'s Chicago Flourmills, Mowbray-street, West Willoughby. The outbreak was first noticed by a watchman…
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The Australian Star · Monday 26 July 1897 · page 5
As reported in Saturday's "Star," the steamship Gulf of Martaban put in to King George's Sound with a fire in one of her holds. It appears that the fire…
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Evening News · Monday 26 July 1897 · page 6
A fire, attended with disastrous consequences, broke out about 2.40 yesterday morning at West Willoughby, and resulted in the total destruction of Messrs. Clifford Love and Company's flour and starch…
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The Australian Star · Monday 26 July 1897 · page 5
'A' disastrous fire occurred early yesterday morning at Messrs. Clifford Love and Co.'s Chicago Flour Mills, West Willoughby, A watchman saw…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 July 1897 · page 7
The Chicago Flourmills, on the Lane Cove River, at the foot of Mowbray-road, Willoughby, were completely destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The mills are in the occupation of Messrs. Clifford…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 July 1897 · page 6
ALBANY, Sunday.--The steamer Gulf of Martaban, bound from Liverpool to Sydney via Adelaide, put in here in distress early this morning. No. 2 hold being on fire. Efforts to extinguish…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 July 1897 · page 6
It has not yet been decided whether an inquest is necessary in connection with the fire by which Messrs. Clifford, Love, and Co.'s Chicago Cornflour and Starch Mills, at Lane Cove were…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 July 1897 · page 3
Further particulars concerning the fire at the flour mills of Messrs. Clifford, Love, and Co.. Lane Cove River, show that the factory and adjacent buildings were insured in the Royal Insurance Company for…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 July 1897 · page 5
Yesterday a new officer for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Mr. Nicholas Spark, arrived in Sydney from London. He will take up local duty in the course of a few days, having reported…
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Evening News · Wednesday 28 July 1897 · page 5
GUNNING, Wednesday.-The Frankfield Hotel, near the Gunning Railway Station, owned and occupied by Mr. Daniel Curtin, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. The…
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Evening News · Wednesday 28 July 1897 · page 5
MITTAGONG, Wednesday.-A destructive fire occurred here this morning at 2 o'clock, when a group of four weatherboard shops, facing the main street, were burned to the ground. The…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 July 1897 · page 5
Curtin's Hotel, at Gunning, was burnt to the ground last night…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 July 1897 · page 3
ALBANY, Tuesday.--The fire on the steamer Gulf of Martaban was 'extinguished this afternoon, but to effect this the foretold had to be Hooded. Owing to the bulkheads leaking badly, the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 July 1897 · page 6
MITTAGONG, Wednesday.--A fire occurred this morning between 2 and 3 o'clock, when four shops, three occupied and one empty, were totally destroyed. The fire was discovered…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 July 1897 · page 6
GUNNING, Wednesday.--The Frankfield Hotel was totally destroped by fire last night. it was a large two-storey building built of wood and brick, and was owned by Daniel Curtin, who was also…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 29 July 1897 · page 4
A fire occurred shortly after half past 10 o'clock last night at a flock and furniture factory, occupied, by Mr. E. W. Beard, in Buckland-street, off…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 July 1897 · page 5
A disastrous fire occurred here about 2 o'clock this morning, when four shops and dwellings in Mainstreet were totally destroyed. The premises consisted of a weatherboard shop and dwelling,…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 29 July 1897 · page 4
By a fire which broke out early yesterday morning four shops were totally destroyed. One of these was unoccupied. The Bowral Fire Brigade came as Soon…
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