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The annual meeting of the Western Suburbs Fire Brigades' Competition Association was held at the Burwood fire station on Tuesday evening. Representatives from Richmond, Liverpool, Sydney Meat Works, Burwood,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A disastrous fire occurred last night in a shop adjoining the Albion Hotel, and occupied by Mr. F. M. Mitchell, chemist and dentist. The whole of the contents were totally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush fires have been raging the last week in several parts of the highlands around Sydney and other places. At Hurstville and Penshurst the flames spread so rapidly in Mr. John O'Brien's property…
Continued on Trove, page 586 →On Thursday evening last week, the promises, together with their contents, of Mr. A. Cooney, were totally destroyed by fire. Mr. Cooney, while taking an evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 3.15 o'clock this morning a stranger gave an alarm of fire to No. 9 Fire Station, Woollahra, and with all possible despatch, the brigade proceeded to the scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When a quantity of small coal, almost dust, accumulates at the bottom of the cellar, it is sometimes difficult to know what to do with it, and each bag of coal placed on the top only adds…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →We mast be lenient with Kipling. It is a difficult thing to keep a nation fighting mad for more than two years at a stretch. He has labored hard at the task, and no other…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →At 6.42 this morning the fire station at headquarters, Castlereagh- street, received an alarm of fire. Brigades from headquarters, and also No. 2 (George -street West), and No…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An outbreak of fire, which wrought damage estimated at over £1000 before it was overcome, occurred at an early hour this morning in Queen-street. Woollahra. The alarm was given at one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire was discovered about 4 a.m. yesterday in the ironmongery, oil and color shop of Mr. H. M'Donald, of Queen-street, Woollahra. The Woollahra, Paddington,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday a fire was discovered in the premises occupied by Mr. W. H. M'Donald in Queen-street, Woollah[?]a. Mr. M'Donald carries on the business of a general ironmonger and oil…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A small fire occurred on Saturday in a first floor front room at the Central Exchange Coffee Palace, in Market-street, but it was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. R. Dacey, M.L.A., has been informed by the Principal Under-Secretary that the sum of £1460 has been granted for a new fire station at Botany…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday afternoon the various fire brigades associated with the Western Suburbs Fire Brigades' Association held a competition at Rookwood, when eight brigades took part. In the eight-men engine…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire, which threatened to develop into serious proportions, broke out early on Saturday morning at Queen-street, Woollahra. The alarm was given to the local fire station and the brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The discharge of the cargo of the barque Jessie Osborne has commenced. The extent of the damage has not yet been ascertained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Considerable excitement was caused in the vicinity of Bathurst and Elizabeth streets, early on Saturday morning by a brutal assault upon an elderly man and the subsequent shooting by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The work of discharging the cargo of the Jessie Osborne, upon which a fire recently occurred, will be commenced on Monday. Until this is done the damage is unascertainable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A train bound west on the Galveston to San Antonio railway became derailed and the carriages took fire. Seventeen people were killed…
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