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Had the Metropolitan Fire Brigade of Sydney possessed a pneumatic telescopic ariel truck like the one illustrated, the loss of life at the great fire at Hordern's might have been less appalling…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →A fire occurred on Tuesday in London recalling in its magnitude the Jewin-etreet outbreak. The conflagration gutted three…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MOSS VALE, Monday.—An alarm of fire was given on Saturday night, when it was found that a cottage belonging to Mr. H. Taylor was well alight. The fire brigade, however, extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. John R. Collins, commission agent, 255 Sussex-street, shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Some cases and partitions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The remains of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, the victims of the recent fire, were buried to-day at 3 o'clock. The procession extended over three-quarters of a mile. The local Oddfellows' lodge conducted the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire took place at 4.30 this morning in a building at the rear of the residence of Mr. Isaac Toole in Lambert-street. A phaeton, harness, and a quality of tools were destroyed, the damage amounting to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Fire Brigades Board seems to be in continual trouble. This Board is one of those conglomerate affairs with which Sydney is but too familiar. There are all sorts of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Owing to the extended area to be served by the Marrickville branch of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, it has been found absolutely necessary to considerably enlarge the promises and make…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The proposal of the Board of Health to enforce stringent regulations to ensure safeguards being provided against fire in hotels and boarding-houses drew a protest from nearly 200…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The want of sufficient accommodation at the Castlereagh-street headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade was again brought under the notice of the State Premier yesterday toy a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'A small fire occurred at 235 Sussex-street on Sunday afternoon, the premises affected being those occupied by Mr. John R. Collins, commission agent. The outbreak, the cause of which is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation from the Fire Brigades' Board and the Underwriters' Association waited on the Premier yesterday afternoon to ask that a sum of money should be provided for extending the headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The inquest on the remains of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, who were burnt in last week's fire, was resumed this morning. Dr. Vallee gave evidence that the bones were those of an adult male and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a largely attended meeting of property owners and hotel and boarding-house keepers held this evening at Scott's Hotel a resolution was carried that the new regulations framed by the Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board interviewed the Premier yesterday with reference to the inadequate accommodation afforded the fire brigade at its headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The adjourned-inquest touching the death of Charles Wilson and his wife, who lost their lives in the great fire in Otho-street on Tuesday morning last, was resumed to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, representing the Fire Brigades Board, yesterday waited on the State Premier, and asked him to resume some properties in Castlereagh and Bathurst streets, in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CAMPBELLTOWN, Wednesday.—An inquest was held at the courthouse yesterday on the fire which destroyed a cottage owned by Mrs. Emma Stanley, on the Camden-road, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest into the cause of the late [?]ve was held to-day, before the coroner and a jury of 12. The evidence was practivally the game as that given at the inquest on the bodies of the victims yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This morning as a man employed by Mr. A. D. Middleton, of the Yass Plains Estate, was dropping baits from a poison-cart, the grass suddenly became ignited owing to the phosphorus being…
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