Fire at the Railway Station
A fire broke out about half-past 8 o'clock last night in a storeroom off the produce shed at the Central Railway Station. A number of employees got a hydrant to work and the…
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A fire broke out about half-past 8 o'clock last night in a storeroom off the produce shed at the Central Railway Station. A number of employees got a hydrant to work and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire in a two-storeyed building at the corner of Margaret-street and Wynyard-lane, was discovered at about 3.30 yesterday morning. When the detachment from Circular Quay station,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A fire which at one time threatened to assume serious dimensions was discovered in a large two-story building at the corner of Wynyard-lane and Margaret-street shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In October last Alderman Lindsay Thompson (representative of the City Council on the Fife Brigades-Board) reported that the Chief Secretary had approved of the removal of the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The report of the commission on fires on wool ships was laid on the table of Parliament House, New Zealand, last week. The report is an extension of and supplementary to the interim…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Daring the recent visit of Prof. Henry [?] Crampton, of Clumbia University, to the South Sea Islands for the purpose of biological…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Royal Commission appointed to Investigate the cause of fires on wool ships, recommends that It be compulsory upon the ships to have the nature or class of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fijian fire walkers, who gave some exhibitions at Christchurch last year, have engaged the attention of Mr. Andrew Lang, who chaffs the men of science on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A sad fire fatality happened at Port Chalmers (N.Z.). The outbreak occurred in a two-storey wooden building occupied by William Haberfield, his wife, four-year-old child, and Haberfield's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A 10-year-old girl named May Williams, residing with her parents at B[?]lgravia, near Woo Waa, was fearfully burnt about the body on Wednesday. It appears she was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A demonstration of a fire drencher installation took, place at Messrs. Edwards, Dunlop's new premises day, before a number of gentlemen. The drencher system is a series of open sprinklers over the entire roof and all…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A practical test of a scheme for the protection of adjacent buildings from fire was carried out yesterday at Messrs. Edwards, Dunlop, and Co.'s new premises in Claren[?]-stree. The two main buildings are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A sensational fire occurred in a small factory in View-street, Annandale, in which Messrs. Schofield and Co., manufacturing chemists, carried on business, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A bush fire is spreading over the hills to the west of the town. It is an unusual sight for this time of the year…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire broke out on Friday night near the stables at the rear of Mr. Clifford's residence, Liverpool, and the alarm being promptly given the local fire brigade were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRAIDWOOD, Monday.—Hogan's Hotel at Mongarlowe and the store and post-office were completely destroyed by fire this morning. The loss is estimated at £1700, and is covered by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SCONE, Tuesday.--A daughter of Mr. W. Willis of Kangaroo Flat, had three fingers amputated at the hospital as the result of a peculiar accident. She was sitting near the fire at her home, 52…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →While Messrs. E. Scholfield and Howood chemists' manufacturers, of View-street, An[?]ale, were experimenting in the manufacture of linoleum cream, about 10.30 this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE New Zealanders reached Sydney in the s.s. Warrimoo on Thursday about 7 a.m., after a rough trip frum Wellington. They were expected on Wednesday, but…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A demonstration of a fire drencher installation Cook place at Messrs. Edwards, Dunlop,'s, new premises, Clarence and Kent streets, Sydney on Tuesday, before the following gentlemen:…
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