Fire at Strathfield
Shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday morning the Burwood Volunteer Fire Brigade turned out to a fire at the residence of Edward Chambers, Coventry-road. Strathfield. The outbreak was…
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The Wallaroo Mine Fire
Mr. James Harvey, chairman of the directors of the Wallaroo and Moonta mines, estimates the damage caused by the fire at Taylor's shaft, and the delay involved by the cessation of…
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A fire occurred on Saturday morning in the basement of the premises occupied by Anderson and Hall, jewellers, King William-street. The fire extended to the ground floor of the shop,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Prevent Theatre Fires. Fireproof Scenery and Stage Paraphernalia
LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--Highly successful experiments have been made at the Albambra Theatre of Varieties, in London, of Moul's process for rendering scenery and stage…
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Early on Saturday morning a fire occurred on the premises of Messrs. Anderson and Hall, Jewellers, Waterhouse-chambers, King William-street, near the corner of…
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News was received to-day from Deepwater station, the property of the Scottish Australian Investment Company, that a bush fire started yesterday morning on the river…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Country News. Fires. Collarendabri
Oreel woolshed was burnt to the ground on Saturday night. The damage is estimated at £4000, and was partly covered by insurance. The coroner will hold an inoulry to-morrow…
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For some considerable time the residents at Randwick have been urging upon the authorities the necessity of having a fire station erected at Randwick. The council has also interested itself very considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Singleton. The Fire Bell Was Heard About 11 o'clock. [By Telegraph.] SINGLETON
About 11 o'clock this morning quite a stir was created by the ringing of the fire bell. When it became known that a weatherboard house occupied by Mr. Alfred York had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suspected Arson. a Colliery on Fire. Singleton
During last night or this morning the do[?] of Oakvnle colliery, at Rix's Crock, worked by John Sattler, was broken off, and when the workmen reached the spot to-day two flres…
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A destructive fire is reported from Mr. G. P. Walls farm, near Bodangora, in the Wellington district, resulting in the loss of 300 bags of wheat…
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A large bush fire has been raging on Deepwater station since Sunday. A quantity of grass has been destroyed. An outbreak occurred on Hawthorn's, but was stopped…
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At South Corowa on Friday evening last, a stack of wheaten hay, in all about 40 tons, the property of Mr. Geo. Plunkett, was destroyed by fire, caused, it is thought, by…
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A recent invention provides a means for extinguishing fires, which smothers the fire not only by shutting off the supply of oxygen to the flame as in apparatus heretofore used, but…
Continued on Trove, page 280 →Fires in a Mine. Supposed to Have Been Wilfully Set. [By Telegraph.] SINGLETON
Mr. John Sattler, lessee of a mine at Mindah, on going to work this morning, was surprised to find that the door leading to the main entrance of the pit had been taken off…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in a Hat Factory. Stock Almost Wholly Destroyed
A fire broke out this evening in a three-storied building near Russell-street and Flinders-lane, occupied by Max Borcbardt, hat and cap manufacturer. The flames spread…
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HILLGROVE.—Large bush fires are raging in the vicinity of the town…
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Through the local exchange the Fire Brigade to-day received a call to premises in Redmyre-road, Strathfield, occupied by Mr. J. P. Barbour, where a fire, supposed to have been caused by a…
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What at one time looked like a disastrous gress fire broke out on the grounds of Mr. J. J. Taylor, Broadview, Pennant Hills-road, on Tuesday, at noon, and rapidly extended to the grounds of Mr. J…
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While Mrs. C. May, a resident of Box Hill, was preparing some food for her baby early this morning, some flannelette became ignited. The Dames spread rapidly, but…
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