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Although very extensive damage was done by the fire which broke out last night at Messrs. Bleasby and Co.'s ironmongery and hardware establishment in King-street, the firm will be able…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Property to the value of fully £200,000 was destroyed by a disastrous Are in East Eleventh-street, New York, a month or so ago. The fire started at 6 o'clock in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →About mid-day on Monday the peaceful inhabitants of Gladesville were startled by an alarm of fire, and very soon the scene of the outbreak was located, dense volumes of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Late last night the head fire station received a call to a fire in King-street, where the premises of Bleasby and Co., ironmongers, were found to be alight. The building is of brick, and consists of five…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →At 4 o'clock on the morning of the 8th instant the large, two-storied, brick building, 65ft. by 140ft., in which Messrs. Wallace and Co. carried on an extensive business as boot and clothing manufacturers, was rapidly consumed by a tire the origin of which is unknown. The value of the premises and contents was about £20,000. The insurances amount to £14,000. More than 400 workers were employed at the factory…
Continued on Trove, page 164 →Late last night No. 2 Station received a call to a fire at the Eveleigh workshops. The Railway Fire Brigade end a detachment from the M.F.B. were quickly on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A bush fire swept across the Kilmore district yesterday, resulting in considerable loss. At one place thousands of tons of red gum timber. cut up for sawmills, were destroyed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Light rains were reported on Saturday last as having fallen over the coastal districts. Inland temperatures were up to over 100· in the shade at many of the stations, Bourke and one or two others…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another bush fire broke out on Thursday near Memagong. During the afternoon a large volume of smoke was seen from the town, but towards the night the fire appeared much smaller. Early on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bicycle shop of Messrs. Greville and Turner, 89 Market-street, was the scene of a fire on Saturday night. A portion of the building, and a number of bicycles and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call at 10.27 p.m. on Saturday to a fire in Wilson-street, Redfern, near the Eveleigh railway station. The outbreak occurred in a large brick building, with an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The clatter of half-a-dozen fire engines through the streets of the city shortly after 6 p.m. on Saturday caused a great crowd to collect in front of 89 Market-street, near Elizabeth-street, to which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A four-roomed weatherboard and iron dwelling, owned and occupied by Mr. William Olman, a miner of Thackaringa, with the contents, including £18 in bank notes, was totally destroyed by fire on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush fires have been burning since Tuesday afternoon on Muttama, Brawlin, and Yammatree. A large fire started late this afternoon west of this town on Mr. M'Clintock's property. It is now raging…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Harbour Trust has cabled to London for one of Merryweather's newest and finest fire engines, with six ordinary fire brigade hoses, which will discharge between 2000 and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after 6 o'clock on Saturday evening the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to a fire at 89 Market-street, in a building occupied by Messrs. Greville Turner as a bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—Again you draw public attention, in one of your editions of last week, to the inadequacy of the material for fire-fighting, and I enclose a report of yours, at the time of the late dreadful…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRAIDWOOD, Monday.--A bush fire started yesterday in the Bedervale paddocks, about two miles from town. A number of townspeople hastened to render assistance, and the day being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Destructive fires are raging in the Kilmore district. Thousands of acres have been destroyed,[?] bringing ruin to many persons. Such fires are quite unprecedented in the district…
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