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2,403 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 121
"I quite agree with what Superintendent Webb has stated in regard to the want of proper provision for escape from hotels and other buildings in Sydney in case or fire, and with the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →That the Government are in earnest in the matter of erecting new headquarters for the M. F. B. would appear to be beyond question for the planning of the contemplated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The homestead belonging to Mr. Denis Foley was burned last night. Everything was destroyed, including all his papers. There was no insurance. The loss is estimated at over £500…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A small outbreak of fire occurred at 3 o'clock this morning in an office occupied by Mr. Edward Bond, and situated in Rowe-street, city. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade was quickly on the scene, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Letting off fireworks was the cause of a fire last night at 76 Glebe-road, Glebe, where a box of kapok at the rear of the premises became ignited. The Glebe Volunteers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Cross-street, Double Bay, at a cottage in course of erection, six bags of lime were damaged by fire last night. The slaking of the lime was supposed to have been the cause of the outbreak. The Woollahra brigade of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The accidental upsetting of a kerosene lamp was the cause of a fire in an office occupied by Mr. Charles Bond, tailor, situated in the Australian-chambers, Rowe-street; city, about 3 o'clock this morning. The office, a front…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A weatherboard cottage at Wilberforce, the properly of Mrs. Sydney Burdekin, was burnt to the ground last night. The tonement had been unoccu[?]d for some time. The origin of the fire is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Within a space of eighteen hours, the services of the fire brigades were called upon for the extinction of two separate fires at wooden bridges in the metropolitan area. The bridge over the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A bridge, formed of wooden trestles, which support a gas main running across a gully near the Parramatta-road at Rookwood, took fire yesterday afternoon, and soon broke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Botany, near the Waterworks, a bridge about 20ft. Wide, on the Botany-road, was found to be on fire about 6 o'clock this morning. It appeared that the bridge had been recently tarred, and from a gas main…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hudson and Company's new biscuit factory at Dunedin has been destroyed by fire. Everything on the premises was lost. The machinery was mostly new, and was valued at £10,000. The value of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday morning a wooden bridge near the waterworks on Botany-road was discovered to be on fire. The Waterloo branch of the M.F.B. immediately proceeded to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At Shellharbour a somewhat curious occurrence took place over a week ago in the shape of a paddock catching fire underneath the surface. From particulars it transpires that while a stump was being burnt the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The headquarters of the M.F. Brigade, under the supervision of Mr. Webb, tried an experiment yesterday afternoon in Macquarie-street, by using salt water in the place of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The president of the Water and Sewerage Board appeared to take a somewhat mournful interest in an experiment which was made yesterday in the city to ascertain how far it would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It was recently announced that the Metropolitan Fire Brigade had adopted a plan for the use of water pumped from the harbour for extinguishing outbreaks of fire during a possibly diminished supply…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shortly before 6 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a Chinaman's cabinetmaking place near Rose's, the chemist, in Georges-street South, opposite Union-lane. Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The fire brigades were called out at about 8 o'clock on Friday evening to an outbreak at the residence of Mr. Joshua Mace, 74 Newtown-road. A candle, coming in contact with a curtain in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MATTERS in connection with the grand entertainment to be given in the Rockdale Town Hall on July 9th in aid of the funds of the Rockdale…
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