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LONDON, Wednesday.--M'Connell's large bonded warehouses in Belfast, containing 500,000 gallons of whiskey, have been destroyed by fire. Several adjacent buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The postal authorities estimate that the stores which they have lost by this morning's fire in George-street North represent about £14,000 or £15,000. This information was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A policeman ran to the door of the Circular Quay fire station, at the corner of George-street North and Barton-street, this morning, during the particularly dark couple of hours…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A scene in George-street North at 10 a.m. yesterday, when the firemen were extinguishing the dying embers of the post-office fire. The mark on the high wall is a crack caused by the intense heat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The statement made by Aid. Meagher that the present water supply is inadequate to deal with big outbreaks of fire in certain parts of the city assumes a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Peregrine, from Queensland ports, arrived at Sydney this morning, and berthed at the KING st[?] captain Firth reports the following incident:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The building in which the fire took place in George-street North on Thursday presented a scene of Wreckage this morning, and a fair idea of the extent of the conflagration could be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Speaking yesterday, Mr. Young, the Deputy-Postmaster-General, stated:--"Only portion of our stores are kept in the building in George-street North which was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The disastrous fire that destroyed many thousand pounds' worth of postal stores at the G.P.O., Melbourne, 16 months ago, had almost a parallel yesterday in a fire that cleaned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the six-storeyed building at 212 George-street, occupied by the Postal Department, and before the flames were got under control the three…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Newtown branch of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a couple of calls on Friday night. The first was to the iron foundry of Mr. Peter Hill, Newman-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about 20 to 1 a.m. on Wednesday the Rookwood fire brigade received from Constable Denman information of a fire in Water-street. It appears that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 2.55 o'clock on Saturday morning the Hurstville Fire Brigade received a call to Gloucester-road, Hurstville, where an unoccupied four-roomed weatherboard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →St. Elmo's fire made its appearance on the Howard Smith steamer Peregrine after leaving Brisbane en route to Sydney, aud for a time the masts and rigging were brilliantly illuminated…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Since the major blaze in George-street the services of the central and suburban fire brigades have been requisitioned at frequent intervals, and if the occasions have not…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Sir, -- One of the lessons to be learnt from the recent disastrous fire in the post-office bulk stores in Lower George-street is the necessity for autmoatic fire alarms connected by direct wire with the fire station. From…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →It is quite old news that Sydney is not properly equipped against all possible danger from fire. The various phases of the question have frequently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A wooden building in San Francisco, used as a boarding-house, and built to withstand a shock of earthquake, caught fire, and was burnt. It accommodated 300 labourers. Two hundred of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Irene Muza, a young actress well known on the stage of several Paris thetres, was burnt to death last night while her hair was being dressed…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fire was discovered shortly after 9 o'clock on Sunday night in a yard off Sussex-street, close to the establishment of Mr. A. H. Pierce, an oil merchant, situated at 220A…
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