Fires
A fire, which caused a good deal of damage, broke out on the premises of Duncan and M'Ind[?]e, printers, Bathurst-street, on Saturday night. The machinery on the first floor suffered slightly, the…
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Fires in the City
Shortly before 9 p.m. on Saturday the M.F.B. received a call to an outbreak of fire in the printing premises of Messrs. Duncan and M'Indoe, 88½ Bathurst-street. The building is a brick one with…
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The annual reunion of the Woollahra Metropolitan Fire Brigade, which was held on Friday evening at the Moncur-street station, was thoroughly enjoyable and successful. The large…
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A serious fire occurred on Saturday night, the stores of J. White and Co., skin and produce merchants, William-street, city, being completely destroyed. The fire was also attended with loss…
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A little before 2-o'clock this morning the fire brigade got their, first job this year. A call was received to a house in Barker-street, off Bathurst-street, and when the firemen arrived…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--William-street and that portion of the city immediately surrounding it was brilliantly illuminated late last night, when the warehouse of J. White and Co. was…
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A little before 2 a.m. yesterday, the fire brigade got their first job this year. A call was received to a house in Barker-street, off Bathurst-street, and when the firemen arrived…
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DUBBO, Monday.--By a fire at Hive's cordial factory, Brisbane-street North, about 2 a.m. on Sunday, the stables and baric premises, with two vehicles and a quantity of fodder, etc., were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tasmania. Disastrous Bush Fires. Hobart
The intense beat prevailing has [?]d a spread of the bush fires, and many reports of disasters are coming in. The principal districts affected are Dromedary, Kempton, Bagdad, Tiers,…
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The report of the work of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades during last year has just been completed. No fewer than 693 calls were received during the twelve months, an increase…
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A fire which broke out yesterday afternoon in a small cottage near the corner of Goodlett and Riley streets, Surry Hills, was extinguished by the brigade, but not before some…
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GUNDAGAI, Tuesday.—A wooden building owned and occupied by Alfred Sheather, a bee farmer, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The building was insured for £100. The origin of…
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PAMBULA, Wednesday.—Thomas Brothers' general store, situate at South Pambula, was totally destroyed by fire at about 3 o'clock yesterday. The fire originated in the…
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History repeated itself on Saturday (says the Melbourne ''Age"). It was a rough and ready revival of a scene from the 16th century, in which Sir Walter Raleigh, first of England's smokers, is…
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MUDGEE, Tuesday Afternoon.—The Mudgee Convent narrowly escaped destruction by fire to-day. The pines in a room in which the Sisters were holding a Christmas Crib were ignited by a…
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An inquest was opened this morning, before Coroner Barnett on the late fire at Bungowannah, whereby three hayricks, the property of Mr. Thomas Hunter Griffith,M.L.A.,…
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A "Government Gazette" of yesterday's date announces the offer of a reward of £25 by the Government (in addition to a similar reward by the proprietress) for information leading to the…
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The city coroner opened an inquest yesterday into the cause and origin of a fire which was discovered on Saturday night at premises situated at 285 Pitt-street, city, and occupied, by Mr. W…
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