Fire in the City
At about 8.30 last night a fire broke out in an unoccupied building situated in Hayst, city, owned by T. M. Goodall and Co. The cause was supposed to have been a light…
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Fire in Hay-street
At about 8.30 last night the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to 129 Hay-street, an unoccupied building, the property of P. N. Goodall and Co. Deputy-Superintendent Sparkes…
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About 11 o'clock last night a fire broke out in the premises known as the old Nepean Hotel, situated in High-street, and, in a little over an hour the whole place was…
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The Sydney office of the Sun Insurance Company received a telegram this morning, stating that a destructive fire took place at White Cliffs last night. Two shops, occupied by…
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PENRITH, Friday.--A weatherboard building, which for many years was styled the Nepean Hotel, but was recently closed, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. The building…
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London's first petrol fire-engine has been delivered by Messrs. Merryweather at the head-quarters of the brigade. It can pump 300 gallons of water a minute, and travel at the rate…
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About 20 past 5 yesterday morning the M.F.B. was called up for a fire in Shepherd-street, city, at private premises occupied by Mrs. Ellen Slattery. The place was a weatherboard cottage, and it was badly damaged…
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A fire was discovered about 3 o'clock this morning on the first floor of premises situated at 414 Elizabeth-street, near Devonshire-street, city, occupied by Messrs Rate Brothers…
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Owing to some bed curtains coming into contact with a lighted candle, a fire broke out on Friday night in the dwelling of Mrs. Hoare, Garden-street, Kogarah. Hiss Hoare gave…
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WHITECLIFFS, Friday.--Last night a fire destroyed a whole block of buildings running from Johnstone-street to Opal-street. Constable Hannan was on duty in Kerara-street, when he…
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Just before 11 o'clock on Wednesday night a fire was noticed breaking out at the old Nepean Hotel, in High street; but it was not until a quarter-past that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at While Cliffs. Block of Buildings Destroyed. Estimated Damage, £5000. White Cliffs
A disastrous fire occurred at midnight, when a while block of buildings, including those occupied by D. Norton (fruiterer), G. Nejaim (draper), D. Gardner (billiard saloon), Francis…
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Owing to bed curtains coming into contact with a lighted candle, a fire broke out shortly after 1 o'clock this morning in the dwelling of Mr. Edgar Chapman, 59 Nelson-street…
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The brigade received a call to a fire in Campbell and McKechnie's iceworks, Little Comber-street, Paddington, yesterday morning. The outbreak was extinguished by the…
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A fire was discovered at about 11 o'clock yesterday morning at Messrs. Campbell and M'Kechnie's iceworks in Little Comber-street, Paddington. The M.F.B. headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires at Beecroft. Two Outbreaks at a College a Youthful Incendiary
At Ravenshurst College, Beecroft, an inquest was held by the district coroner into the circumstances attending two fires which had unaccountably broken out in the college on…
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For some years a mushroom cnop of fire insurance companies came up in the United Kingdom. But few of these, if any, extended their operations to Australia, though, a large…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Carlingford
Late on Saturday night a seven-roomed cottage residence, owned and occupied by Mr. George Maher and family, and situated about a mile from Carlingford, on the Pennant Hills…
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A fire, caused by the accidental upsetting of a kerosene lamp, broke out at the residence of Mr. George Maher, orchardist on the Pennant-hills-road midway between Carlingford and Pennant-hills, late on Saturday…
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