Fire in Oxford-street
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call about 5.30 last evening to the premises of Mr. A. C. Wigzell, hairdresser, Oxford-street, city. With the assistance of detachments from…
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Pyrmont Fire. the Supply of Water
Having noticed something in the newspapers about the defective supply of water at the recent fire at Pyrmont, the president of the Water and Sewerage Board called for a report. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Successes in the Western Transvall. Engagement with Kemp. the Boers Charge. Received with a Hot Fire. London, April 16
Further particulars have been received of the operations of Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Hamilton against Commandant Delarey's force under Commandant Kemp, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires. Finley
An inquiry into the recent fire at the "Free Press" Office was held to-day before Mr. F. W. Garstang, district coroner. The jury returned a [?]rdict that the fire was accidentally caused through…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Broken Hill Fires. Broken Hill
Re adjourned inquest into the Chapple-lane fires [?] continued to-day. Alice Annie Simpson gave [?]ence in which she denied all previous statements [?]ich the police alleged had been made to them by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Water and Sewerage Board. the Pyrmont Fire
The weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage was held yesterday, the president (Mr. J. Garrard) being in the chair. It was reported that the revenue collected from July 1 to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Water and Sewerage Board. The Pyrmont Fire. Crusade Against Rats
At the weekly meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board yesterday the englneer-in-chief submitted returns showing that in the week ended 12th instant 580 yards of sewers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →From Prosperity to Poverty. a Sad Result of a Bush Fire
Perhaps the saddest circumstance resulting from a hush fire is one which Occurred in Winnepeg, Canada, in June last year. Benjamin Spencer, ploughed in the fields when he was a…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Fires. Molong
A fire occurred at Cardington station last nignt. About 150[?]tons of [?], valued at £700, together with a large shed containing a chaffcutter, were totally destroyed. The fire was first discovered in a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fires on a Station
MOLONG, Friday.—Two fires broke out last night Cardington Station, the property of Mrs. Carr (formerly Miss Louisa M'Nevin), who is now on her honeymoon trip in England, and who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires and Explosions Caused by Electricity
A recent report of the Electrical Bureau of the National Board of Fire Underwriters (says an American paper) contains a number of curious and interesting instances of Ares resulting from…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Fire at Kingswood
Mr W Anderton, for some time employed by Mr R Foat, of this town, but recently employed in tbe Railway Department, owns a comfortable cottage at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burwood Colliery Fire
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The cause of the fire in the Burwood Colliery of last week has not yet teen ascertained. The investigations made so far tend to the belief that it was due to spontaneous…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Fire Fiend's Revel
Ha, ha, ha! If they keep the Fire Brigade in its present state there's a real good time ahead for me!…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire at Pyrmont
A little before 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon Charles Anderson, the watchman employed at Wallis and Sons' Cedar Mills, Pyrmont, found flames issuing from the engine-room at the mills…
Continued on Trove, page 990 →Rockdale Fire Brigade Band
THE performance to have been given by the Rockdale Fire Brigade Band in “Shady Nook,” Lady Robinsons Beach, on Sunday afternoon, 6th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire Test for Ores
In the process of ascertaining the value of a piece of mineral-hearing rock, the ore is first pulverised in a crusher or mortar. It is then quartered or split, until a sample is obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Fire at Pyrmont. [?] illustrations on page 22.)
At about half-past 5 p.m. on Saturday a disastrous fire broke out at Pyrmont, and in less than half an hour five or six large buildings, covering almost an entire block, had been, swept…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire Generations. (See portraits on this page.)
Five generations in eighty-four years is by way of being a record, and the credit of four of them is claimed by the Carcoar district. Can any other district in Australia show a similar record?…
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