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CHICAGO (U.S.A.), December 4.--Fourteen men mot death by suffocation tills morning in a fire which occurred in the Lincoln Hotel, 167 Madison-street. Thirteen of those who lost their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--As the seconder of the resolution moved by the Mayor of Leichhardt (Alderman Tread-gold), at the recent conference of municipal representatives, permit me, through the medium…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At last night's meeting of the City Council Alderman E. Lindsay Thompson, the representative of the council on the Metropolitan Fire Brigades' Board, submitted a report, in which he stated that at its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The question of the increased subsidy to the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board was referred to in a report furnished by Mr. E. Lindsay Thompson, representative of the council on the beard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Australian" writes:—Reading in your valuable paper an account of the fire at the Hotel Australia naturally sets one thinking what the consequences would have been had the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The matter of contribution by the City Council for the first quarter of the current year to the Fire Brigades Board was referred on Tuesday night by the City Council to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early yesterday evening an outbreak of fire occurred at M'Cowan and Co.'s tailors' shop, Argent and Chloride streets. The brigade it as promptly on the scene and extinguished the flames, only £10…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ARMIDALE, Thursday.—A fire broke out early this morning in a lean-to attached to Allingham's old [?] mill, Beardy-street. The fire was extinguished before much damage was done. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The site of the fire in Grenfell-st. on Tuesday night is a scene of ruin. The walls of Messrs. Hold en and Frost's premises, blackened and scorched by smoke and flames, rise up grimly from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the last meeting of the Randwick Borough Council a notice was received from the Fire Brigades Board giving the council seven days' notice to pay the contribution due…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →JERILDERIE, Wednesday.—A most unusual fire occurred on Saturday on the mail coach leaving here for the Argoon and Wilson districts. The coach had got only about a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The action of the Randwick Council in withholding payment of the increased demand roads upon it by the Fire Brigades' Bowl for the current year has resulted in the for her body receiving a peremptory…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a meeting of the Rockdale Council last evening a circular letter was read from the Kogarah Council drawing attention to the increased contributions of municipalities to the Fire Brigades Board. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest on the fire which occurred on the premises of Messrs. Holden and Frost, saddlers and ironmongers, was held to-day. A verdict was returned that the fire was the result of accident…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Hume writes:—Kindly publish the following for the information of the public, and "Australian" in particular. In reply to "Australian," re fire escape, in your issue of the 12th instant, I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CITY and suburban municipal councils continue to be much exercised on the subject of contributing to the cost of the Metropolitan Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, February 13.—At the inquest on the bodies of the victims of the fire at Colney Hatch [?]ic asylum the jury returned a verdict to the effect, that there was no…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Friday.--The verdict of the coroner's jury relating to the fatal fire at the Colney Hatch Asylum for the Insane, was to the effect that there was no evidence to show how the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,--I think the following statement will interest a great many of your readers, and, therefore, if you can find space to give my experience, I shall be glad…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The verdict of the coroner's jury at the inquest on the bodies of the victims of the fire at Colney Hatch lunatic asylum was to the effect that there was no evidence to show…
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