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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1908

2,282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 115

Fire in Kent-street. Tarpaulin Factory Ablaze

Evening News · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 2

A fire was discovered about half-past 8 o'clock last night in a four-storey building, at 406 Kent-street, city, occupied by Goodearls, Limited, tent, tarpaulin, and bedding manufacturers…

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Fire in Kent - Street. Good Work by the Brigades

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 10

At about 8.20 last, night fire was seen to be issuing from the story of a building in Kent - street occupied by Messrs. Goodearl 's Ltd Who carried on business as tent, tarpaulin,…

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Fire in a Factory. Call to Kent-street. Heavy Damage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 8

The beginnings of an unpromising blaze were mastered by the brigades in Kent-street last evening. A large stock of inflammable stuff was alight, and a four-storled factory was…

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Fire at a Boarding - House. Two Men Committed for Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-At the City Police Court today .Tom Ball, the licensee of a seaman's boarding - house was charged, before Mr. G Scott, S. M., with having on March 20 last, in company with a seaman namedJoseph…

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The Fire on the Mongolia. the Hold Flooded. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 11

The Are which occurred on the voyage of the Australian mail steamer Mongolia broke out in No. 5 hold the day after leaving Gibraltar. Every precaution was taken to…

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Boarding-house Fire. Sensational Evidence. Keeper Committed for Trial. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1908 · page 8

At the Newcastle Police Court to-day before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M., Thomas Bail, 38, boarding-house-keeper and proprietor of the sallors' barding-house, in Nos, 19, 21 and…

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Extinguishing Fires

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 4

There are some who look upon the recognised method of putting out tires by throwing water upon them as being both effete and altogether out of touch with the…

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Fires in the Country

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 11

GOULBURN, Friday. -- Shortly after midnight an unoecupiel weatherboard cottage of four rooms in Addison-street was totally destroyed by fire. It was the property of Mr. B. M'Aloon…

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Blaze in Kent-street Tarpaulin Works Damaged

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 14

No estimate of the damage could be given yesterday by Mr. G. H. Goodearl, one of the proprietors of Messrs. Goodearl's, Ltd., tent, tarpaulin and mattress makers, whose…

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The Country. Fires in the Country

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 11

ROCKLEY, Friday. -- A fire occurred at Mount David on Tuesday night, where a house, occupied by H. Warby and owned by M'Guire Brothers, was totally destroyed…

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False Alarm of Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 13

Last night, about 9[?] o'clock, an alarm of fire on the North Coast wharf was given from a box. Detachments from headquarters, the Quay, and Cumberland-street turned out,…

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Fire Telephone for Liverpool

Evening News · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 7

During tine recent fire on the Goulburn express train at Liverpool Railway Station the want of telephonic communication with the Liverpool Frie. Brigade Station was severely…

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Fire on a Steamer

Evening News · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 8

Owing to the vapor of some spirit coming into contact with a flame, an outbreak of fire took place at an early hour this morning on board the steamship Komura, lying at the…

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Fire on a Steamer S.s. Komura Damaged

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 13

At 1.15 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the lamp-room on the upper deck of the s.s. Komura, berthed at the A.U.S.N. Co. A wharf.. The flames were assuming large…

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Fire Brigades Hoaxed. Call to the North Coast Wharf

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 9

Sussex-street by day was calm and peaceful, and in the early part of the night the same sir of tranquility prevailed in that thorough farce Shortly after 9 o'clock last night, however, the…

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Fire at Goulburn Cottage Burnt to the Ground. Goulburn

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 14

At an early hour this morning a weatherboard cottage in Addlson-street, the property of Mr. B. Mallon, was burnt to the ground. Some stables near by also caught ablaze…

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Post Office Under Fire. New Federal Estimates. Departments Require £570,000. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 13

The additional estimates for the expiring financial year, 1907-8, amounting to £571,028, were circulated in the House of Representatives to-day, and will be before the committee…

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An Impassioned Appeal. Strike Committee to Unions. "Merits of Dispute Now Immaterial" Urgent Need of Much Money Declared. Strike May Run Like Fire Through Commonwealth

Evening News · Saturday 4 April 1908 · page 8

An appeal has been made by the unionists' Joint strike committee to the unions of New South Wales. The full text is as follows:—"Joint executive of Transport Workers'…

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Fire Dangers

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 April 1908 · page 6

If the authorities act promptly and Intelligently upon the evidence adduced before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry upon the question…

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Second Edition Barque on Fire [?] Mosman Bay Dunloe Considerably Damaged Watchman's Narrow Escape

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 5 April 1908 · page 1

A brilliant outbreak of fire, attached to which was an exceedingly narrow escape of a watchman from death, occurred in Mosman, Bay at'2 o'clock this morning on board…

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