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The main store of Campbell and Co. was completely gutted early this morning. The fire was confined to the one buildings which contained, roughly, £20,000 worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A quantity of smoke issuing from the rear of a building in George-street, near Hunter-street, city, at 11.45 last night, caused Constable Ma[?]er to ring up the fire brigade. Anticipating a big job, the latter turned out…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Glebe Council, at its meeting on Monday night, spent some time discussing the merits of the local Fire Brigade. Alderman Earl moved,—"That a letter be written to the Fire Brigades Board drawing…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A fire was discovered shortly after 9 o'clock this morning in stables at the rear of the premises of Mr. Charles Hancott, grocer. 475 Darline-street, Balmain The local branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—A serious fire occurred yesterday at Cockle Creak, Lake Macquarie, burning six boatsheds and their contents. The loss was only partially covered by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The District Coroner, Mr. E. Mackinnon held an inquiry on Monday concerning the fire in River-street on Saturday morning last. Mr. C. Bell, of Sydney, was present in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE NEW SWITCHBOARD ERECTED AT THE METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIG ADE STATION…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →PERTH, Wednesday.--Great interest. was shown in the Inquest on Mrs. Muriel Selwood, of East Fremantle, who was thrown out of a sulky, and after considerable delay taken to a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire! Fire! Fire! The cry,is taken up in the street, and a man dashes to the alarm-box at the corner of George-street and Barrack-street, breaks the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TENTERFIELD, Saturday Afternoon.—The stables belonging to Mr. D. O'Leary, 'bus proprietor, were destroyed by fire early this morning. Two cabs, three 'buses, a buggy, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three fires broke out simultaneously on the evening of January 7 in the "down town" business quarter of New York, and damage to the extent of £250,000 was done,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Notwithstanding the fact that the punishment for the crime of arson, or the malicious burning of a house or other building with intent to injure or defraud any person, is penal…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The premises of Hutchinson and Co., general storekeepers at Warracknabeal, were destroyed by fire to-day. Two adjoining shops were badly damaged. The loss is estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →How many people know that the practice of laying the poker against the [?]p bar of the [?]regrate to induce a draught is sound scientifically? Mr. A. H. Gibson has been, explaining…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →At the Stroud police court, before Mr. W. Brown, P.M., Frederick William C[?] Ince, a young man, was charged by the police with igniting certain inflammable material, to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--A destructive fire this morning at Warracknabeal destroyed £5000 worth of property. Hutchenson and Co.'s, general store and W. C. Schaefer's jeweller's shop…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--A house and stables belonging to Louis Leys, farmer, at Campbell's Creek, near Bendigo, were destroyed by fire early this morning. Subsequently an inspection…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In America everything. is "the largest ever." Any citizen of the great Republic will show you round his particular, town, and whether he be a New Yorker or a pioneer of one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Although it most of necessity be a long way off, there is little doubt that the time will come when steam pumping engines will no longer be seen at fires in large cities. In…
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