These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
2,282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 115
LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon,-- The Anglo-American Oil Company's steamer Housatonic, laden with petroleum, struck on one of the Malden Rocks off the north-east…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly before 5 o'clock this evening a fire broke out among some bales of straw on the Grarton (Huddart parker ) Whart, at Darling Harbor, Superintendent Webb turned out the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wyalong is attracting quite an [?] count of notice by lurid lights. Only [?] week of [?] a big blaze in its [?] hotel reminded its that such a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Admiral Sir Arthur K. Wilson, V.C., commanding the Channel Fleet, aboard the battleship Vengeance, is experimenting off Torbay, on the Nova Scotian coast, with a new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WOLLONGONG, Saturday.—A fire occurred at j E. Sweeney's residence, Corrimal. Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney and their family of ten children just managed to get out of the building in time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GREAT damage was caused by fire about the end of November in London. The outbreak occurred on the premises of Messrs. A. W. Gamage (Limited). Holborn,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fourteen men fatally suffocated and two believed to be dying-- this was the sequal to a stubborn fire that started with spontaneous combustion in the Pennsylvania tunnel…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →WYALONG, Saturday.—Another and third fire since New Year's Eve occurred at West Wyalong at 3 o'clock this morning, when Tucker's butcher's Shop was totally destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Metropolitan Fire Brigade shortly before 10 o'clock last night received a call to the dwelling of J. A. Hesselberg, Bennett-street, Surry Hills. A spark from a pipe had caused…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Admiral of the Fleet Sir A. K. Wilson is experimenting on board H.M.S. Vengeance at Torbay, with a new aim-corrector from a place on deck behind…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →At an early hour last night a rather disastrous fire broke out in the general store of Mr. Alexander Kirkwood, in Forest road, Arncliffe, and before it was extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortly before 7 o'clock on Saturday night a fire broke out in a case store attached to a general store in Forest-road, Arncliffe, occupied by Alexander Kirkwood. In a few…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Marine Underwriters at Sydney been advised that the steamer Hornby Grange ' has arrived at Vladivostock from Sydney and i Queensland ports with the cargo on fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A. fire broke out on Saturday night in the pr[?]ses of Alexander Kirkwood, a general storekeeper is. Forest-road, Arncliffe. The outbreak started in the grocery department,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A serious fire occurred on Saturday night in the general store of Mr. Alexander Kirkwood, at Arncliffe. The outbreak, which started in the grocery…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE. Monday.—At 4 o'clock this morning an outbreak of fire occured at the AH Nations Hotel, "William-street, Bendlgo. W. Kipling, who with other occupants of the house,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Hornby Grange, 2473 tons, from Sydney, November 7, for Manila and Vladivostock, has arrived at the last named port. She reports a fire, which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Yorkers witnessed a great spectacle last night--the magnificent, but disastrous, spectacle of a 13-storied skyscraper in flames. The premises involved were those known…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drought is causing considerable uneasiness in various parts of the dominion, especially in Canterbury and Otago. Big bush fires are raging at Wairarapa…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BOGGABRI, Monday.--About midnight last night the homstead of Mr. James Nelson, at Trafalgar, was completely destroyed by fire. All the furniture and effects also were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →