The Fire on the Bielefeld
At about 5 o'clock to-day the fire which broke out on the steamer Bielefeld on Friday was extinguished. The outbreak occurred among 600 bags of copra stored in the No. 5…
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Fire at Arncliffe. Cottage Severely Damaged
A fire broke out this afternoon in a fourroom weatherboard cottage, occupied by Thomas G. Matthews, Innesdale-street, Arncliffe. The flames spread rapidly, and the…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.--The fire in the hold of the Bielefeld was extinguished this evening, after burning for about 50 hours. About 5 o'clock the services of a diver were obtained…
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The French mail steamer Yarra, which arrived at Sydney yesterday, brought news of a fire which occurred at Thio on April 13. It broke out in the quarters occupied by the…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—A fire broke out in the forehold of the Union Company's steamer Mokoia at Dunedin to-day among 1200 bales of tow and flax. It was not extinguished till 400…
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Shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday a fire broke out in a four-roomed weather board cottage occupied by Mr, T. G. Matthows and situated at Innisdle-street, Arncliffe. Before the…
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A fire broke out at Sale early this morning at the rear of a fruit shop occupied by Mr. J. Cameron, and before it was checked it had completely destroyed the promises and those…
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The coroner held an inquiry to-day into the circumstances of a fire which destroyed premises occupied by Paul Bethic, Jeweller, Nelson-street, Plattsburg, on May 2. Mr. W. A…
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A fire, originating in a quantity of tow shipped at Wellington, broke out on board the Union Company's steamer Mokoia at Dunedin, and it took four hours to suppress. The lower portion…
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An invention called asbestine, for rendering material fireproof, was exhibited to the members of the Melbourne Board of Health on Friday. Hessian and cheese cloth placed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Zealand. Fire on the Mokoia. Wellington
A fire occurred on board the steamer Mokola at Dunedin among the tow and flax shipped at Wellington. Three hundred tons of water was poured into the held affected, and not…
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Last night a cottage in Kembla-street North, occupied by Mr. G. Thompson, was, with its contents, destroyed by fire. The occupants were out at the time, and it is…
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A railway truck at the Petersham goods sheds, containing four tons of lime, the property of W. Burns, Balmain, caught on fire last evening. Brigades from Nos. 7 and 22…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Gaol Escapee. Cant Recaptured. Fires Two Shots at Police. a Desperate Fight
FORBES. Wednesday.—The prisoner. Thomas Cant, alias vaughan, who escaped from Berrima Gaol a few weeks ago, was recaptured here in a sensational manner last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Limited
The twenty-ninth annual general meeting of the City Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Limited, was held at the office of the company, 95 Pitt-street, Sydney, on Friday last…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Escaped Prisoners. a Sensational Arrest. Escapee Fires Upon the Police. Forbes
A sensational arrest was made yesterday between 6 and 7 o'clock of Tommy Cant, allas Vaughan, the noted gaol-breaker, who escaped from Berrima about a mouth ago…
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The twenty-ninth annual general meeting of the City Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., was held at the office of the company, 95 Pitt-street, Sydney, on Friday last, the Right Hon…
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Thomas Cant, alias Vaughan, who escaped from Berrima Gaol three weeks ago, was re -arrested here last night. He was located in a house in Parkes -road, about a mile from…
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