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A small fire occurred yesterday afternoon at a produce store in Henderson-road, Alexandria, occupied by Patrick Moriarty. Fortunately the local branch of the M.F.B. was soon on the scene, and the flumes were extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Experiments were carried out off the Isle of Wight yesterday in pounding the old battleship Belle Isle with shells. The experiments showed that if a single…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A quantity of tar on a railway siding at George-street South, near where the line passes under the city's main thoroughfare, caught fire yesterday. A heavy bank of smoke quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The racing stables owned by H. J. Saunders, and rented by George Rex, racehorse trainer, situated at Guildford, were completely destroyed by fire tills morning. Three thoroughbred horses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ARMIDALE, Thursday.— A cottage, occupied BY C. Brown, at East Armidale, was burnt to the ground between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning. The family had a very trying experience, barely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CANDELO, Thursday.— Residents were considerably surprised on Tuesday morning to find that the atmosphere was heavily laden with, smoke, and with the smell of burning bushes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At an early hour this morning a fire was discovered in a stack of straw containing about 600 bales at the Union Company's wharf, D[?]itt-street. The watchman s[?]ut the alarm to the Metropolitan Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred yesterday afternoon among a quantity of tar on a railway siding off George-street South, near the railway bridge. Immense clouds of smoke soon rose from the burning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early this morning, the night-watchman at the Union Company's Druitt-street Wharf discovered that a large stack of straw on the wharf, supposed to contain some five or six hundred bales,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 11 o'clock last night a fire was discovered in M. Bates's tobacconist shop and dwelling, situuted in the centre of Orr-street. The contents and furniture were destroyed. Two children,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the last meeting of the municipal council of Kogarah a letter was read asking for cooperation in protesting against the power of the Fire Brigades' Board to enforce increased, contributions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is always an ominous ring about an alarm of fire on a wharf, mainly for the reason that the city people know that the jurisdiction of the M.F.B. ends at the high-water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The North Sydney Council has referred to a sub-committee to consider and report upon the advisability of co- operating in a movement Initiated by the Leichhardt Council, with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Superintendent Webb, of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades, visited Newcastle to-day for the purpose of reporting on the best precautions to be taken for the safety of the buildings at the quarantine station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The early hours of Boxing Day witnessed a fire of a most exciting description. It occurred at White Horse-street, Stepney, London, in a five-roomed house occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire occurred on the premises of Mr. C. Lemnon's cordial factory, Sandwych-street, at 11 p.m. yesterday. Th eorigin was due to kerosene lamp being overturned. The fire brigade quickly extinguished the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WYALONG, Friday.—A fire occurred in Conway-street, last night, when a three-roomed weatherboard house, occupied by a family named Beames, and owned by Mrs. O'Keefe, of Barmedman, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire occurred last evening at the residence of Mr T. S. Morgan, Morganville, Randwick. Detachments from Paddington and Woollahra branches of the M.F.B., and the Waverley…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The engine, dynamo, and engine-house at "Rupertswood," Sunbury, Victoria, the residence of Sir Rupert Clarke, were destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. Alongside the wall was a 400-gal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The large reflecting oteoscope or coelostat in the Yerkes Observatory was recently destroyed by fire, together with many valuable instruments. The less is estimated at 25,000dol, on which there is…
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