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To give an idea of the element of danger caused by so big a blaze, especially with a pretty high wind blowing, several pieces of charred timber were found in Oxford-street, between Mark Foy's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Superintendent Webb, when spoken to shortly after the progress of the fire had been checked, said that the first call was received at headquarters at 8.28 a.m. through the exchange. The whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The business of the imperial Manufacturing Company is a fairly large one, about 50 hands being employed. These are chiefly engaged in putting articles of daily consumption, such as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--Statements having been made that the Bank of New Zealand would probably pay a dividend to the shareholders, the Premier, speaking in the House…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When seen by our reporter on Wednesday morning Mr. Webb, the superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades, was busily engaged in directing the operations of his men, and could…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The outbraek appears to have been first seen by a young man named John Longford, who resides at No. 11 Margaret-street, or in his own words, "it would be more correct to say I smelt…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the small lane and the parcel and dispatch room opposite the main buildings in Gipps-street about 10.30 a.m. hundreds of the firm's employees were congregated and discussing in excited tones…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is feared that the disastrous fire which swept the Palace Emporium from end to end yesterday was attendant with more serious loss of life than was at first supposed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This morning, all that is left of the three handsome buildings which formed a greater portion of Anthony Hordern and Sons' Haymarket Emporium is a mass of charred and unrecognisable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The old saying that it never rains but it pours is applicable to the calls now being made on the city firemen, who, after their arduous duties at the Haymarket, were summoned about midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →While the fire was at its height great alarm was caused by the proximity of three huge gasholders (gasometers, they rare generally but inaccurately termed). At one time a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A second outbreak of fire occurred in the city at about midnight on Wednesday, and when we went to press the confisgration, though insignificant in comparison with that at Messrs. Anthony Hordern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Insufficient, but not inefficient. This syllable transposition conveys in concentrated-solution form the unpalatable truth about our metropolitan fire-extinguishing appliances. The one…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The firm, being a real live one, is not going to lose any time in resuming business. In consequence of the expectation of the Federal tariff, all the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The wildest excitement prevailed in the city early yesterday morning, when fire engines were seen careering along from all directions, and there was a great rush of the resident and incoming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning one of the biggest fires that Sydney has ever known consumed almost the whole of Anthony Hordern's immense buildings at the Haymarket. It lasted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Webb, the superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, was seen by a representative of this paper for a few moments at the head station during the afternoon before he left for the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The City of Sydney would seem to have been struck by a fire-wave, for the wearied and exhausted firemen had scarcely returned on Wednesday evening from the scene of their laborious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DEAR SIR,-- After the recent experience we have bad in Sydney, it is time that something substantial be done to prevent a recurrence of similar and possibly more disastrous calamities…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the biggest and most disastrous fires ever known in Sydney consumed nearly the whole of Messrs. Anthony Hordern and Sons' great…
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