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Think of the immense advantage you would again if you had at your call, any instant, authoritative answer to every question that came up on the course of your business, your study, you reading, or your…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another fire occurred at Forest Lodge early this morning. Shortly before 4 o'clock, from some cause at present unknown, a large stable at the rear of Nos. 83 and 85 Old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In reply to a question asked in the Legislative Assembly last night by Mr. Broughton, the Colonial Treasurer said:--Of the vote of £15,000 under Loan Act No. 62 of 1901, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 3.45 a.m. yesterday a fire was discovered in some stables at 85 Old Parramatta road, Forest Lodge. The place was built of wood and iron and is owned by Mr. Nosworthy, of St. John's-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday morning a fire occurred in stables at the rear of premise occupied by Mr. William P. Condon and Mr. Thomas Jepson, at 83 and 85 Old…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TUMUT, Saturday.—The inquest with regard to the origin of the fire, which destroyed Casperson's Terrace, in the main street, on Tuesday, was concluded at the Courthouse yesterday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquiry into the destructive fire on Tuesday morning was held before the Coroner, Mr. W. J. Shelley, and a jury of 12, at the courthouse, and concluded yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The police at Brisbane received advice from Cooktown that a girl named Gertrude Chalmers, over fourteen years of age, had deliberately set fire to her niece, a little…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Recently the Rockdale Council approached the Fire Brigades' Board with a request that provision be made for the early erection of a fire station at Arncliffe. At the last meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mrs. Murray's boarding-house on Oxley's Hill, about a mile and a half from town, was completely destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. The building was constructed of weatherboard with an iron roof,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →For the second time in three days the Metropolitan Fire Brigade was called out on Tuesday evening to the bakery of Mr. J. Dibble, 34½ Pitt-street, Redfern. A quantity of firewood had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The domestic fire escape which we illustrate consists of a plate upon which there is formed a sinuous rope path or guide, which slides along the fixed rope, meeting with…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Shortly before 5 o'clock this morning a fire broke out at Quinn's Hotel, Kanowna, and before the brigade could get to work the Hames had obtained a complete hold of the building. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The problem of providing a trustworthy mechanical contrivance which will at once indicate the presence of fire in a building has for years puzzled inventors in all parts…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The 25th annual meeting of the Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Company was held yesterday at the company's head office, Pitt-street, Mr. S. Allen Mansfield (chairman of directors) presiding. The report and balance-sheet for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning an outbreak of fire occurred in Waratah colliery, one of the properties of the Caledonian Coal Company. The discovery was made by one of the workmen owing to smoke, and the fire proved to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The fire which broke out yesterday in the Waratah Colliery, about a mile and a half in the pit, in one of the old bords, is proving more extensive than…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another fire disturbed the mining operations at Waratah Colliery yesterday. It is only a few months since there was a similar outbreak, attributed to spontaneous combustion, which laid the mine idle for a day. On this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two telephone fire alarm instruments were stolen from the corner of Bishopsgate land Wellington' streets, Newtown, recently, and similar thefts have occurred from other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the annual meeting of the joint committee of the northern suburbs, a sub-committee, representing the whole of the progress associations interested, was appointed to inquire into…
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