Another Fire on a Tramcar
A slight delay to the tram traffic in George-street occurred on Thursday evening, at about 5 o'clock. A tram which had left Circular Quay, and was passing Hunter-street, suddenly…
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The Aucklakd Fires. Girl's Sensational Story
The inquest concerning the fire at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, was continued during the week. Jessie Minns, the pantry-maid, on being cross-examined, repeated…
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An alarm of fire yesterday afternoon brought several detachments from the branches of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade to a boarding establishment, 84 and 86…
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During our preparation for the Bendigo. Fire Brigade Demonstration we received some very severe strains, and almost broke down, but by the liberal use of…
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A fire broke out in a bedroom at the Post-office Restaurant, Erskine-street, on Saturday. Detachments from the headquarters and Circular Quay Stations of the M.F.B. attended and…
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Some excitement was caused in Erskine-street shortly after 3 o'clock on Saturday by an outbreak of fire having been discovered at the Post Office Coffee Palace, near Wynyard Square. In…
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THIS morning, just as the earliest people were going to their business, the great establishment of Messrs. Anthony Hordern and Sons was in full blaze. The fire showed signs of being even…
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Considerable improvements have been in progress lately at the North Sydney Fire Station, Walkerstreet, and are now nearing completion. Some time ago an additional area was secured at the rear of the…
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WELLINGTON, Tuesday.--The Premier introduced the State Fire Insurance Bill into the House of Representatives. He indicated that it would probably include marine risks…
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The fire which broke out this morning, at the premises of Messrs. Anthony Hordern and Sons is one of the most regrettable incidents of the kind which has ever occurred in this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Effect of the Fire. on the Quay Traffic
A correspondent writes: The scene on the Quay this morning was really funny. As the passengers came ashore from the ferries they rushed as usual over to the tram line, stood there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great City Fire. an Anthony Hordern & Sons. a Mammoth Conflagration. a Sea of Flame in the Haymarket. a Terrible Leap to Death. Business Blocked--traffic Paralysed
The mammoth emporium of Anthony Hordern and Sons, Haymarket, was to-day the scene of one of the greatest fires in the records of Australia. Huge buildings forming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stupendous Fire. at Anthony Hordern's. Nearly the Whole Block Destroyed with Loss of Life. Over a Million Pounds' Destruction. Sydney's Biggest Conflagration. Firemen Work Gallantly. But the Flames Beat Them. a Man's Awful Leap for Life. From an Eight-storeys Building. Fears of an Explosion. From the Great Gasometer. the Fire Still Raging. a Gorgeous Spectacle
"There's over a million gone!" In these words, so little in sound, so great in portent, one of the best-known insurance agents in Sydney mournfully described a fire which this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another City Fire. Midnight Blaze in Kent- street. Thousands of Pounds Damage
The blackened ruins of a six- storied building in Kent- street stood this morning as further evidence of devastation by fire in Sydney. The premises, which are situated at…
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The great fire which has reduced the fine Haymarket establishment of Messrs. A. Hordern and Sons to a heap of smoking rains has few parallels in Australia. The biggest conflagration in Sydney was…
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During the course of the last twenty-four hours there have been two considerable fires—Hordern's, and the one in Kent-street. Luckily they did not occur at the same time, or the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Previous Fires at Horderns
On Wednesday, November 9, 1898, at 1.57 a.m., a fire occuned in the crockery bulk store and packing room in Parker-street, and the roof and top floor were burnt off, the contents underneath being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some Great Fires in London
Some of the great fires of London have been appalling. So far back as 1212 one at London Bridge, which began on the Southwark side, was communicated to the otherside, and hemming in a…
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It would be scarcely au exaggeration to characterise the lire which devastated the immense establishment of Anthony Hordern and. Sons yesterday as a public calamity…
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Scarcely had the firemen at headquarters rid themselves of their clothing, drenched and almost ruined at Hordern's great fire, than a call was received to a "big blaze" in Regent-street,…
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