The Fire Fiend. Record Number of Calls
While December enabled the fire brigades to establish a record with regard to attendance at fires--no fewer than 246 in the city and suburbs were dealt with--the present…
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Fire at King's School. Store Shed Destroyed
At 5 a.m. yesterday a two-storey weatherboard shod belonging to the King's School, Parramatta and situated in an isolated position, about 300 yards from the main building,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Osaka Fire. a Fresh Outbreak. Tokio
No sooner was the calamitous fire in Osaka extinguished when it was followed by another disastrous outbreak. As a result of this second conflagration…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Osaka Fire. Ten Hours' Fight. Tokio, Jan. 16
The disastrous fire in Osaka originated in a house of ill-fame, and the whole quarter was consumed. Many women perished. The fire quickly spread to the crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →City Fire. Wireless Station Destroyed Work of a Lifetime Ruined
The wireless station on the roof of the Wentworth Hotel, in Lang-street, Church Bill, over the building, and the installing of which Mr. Charles Maclurcan, the son of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Upper Hand. Ten Hours Fire-fighting. Women Lose Their Lives
TOKIO, Tuesday Evening.--The Osaka fire originated in a house of questionable re pute and spread over the whole quarter, which was completely burned out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Late Cable News. Received To-day. The Osaka Fire. Breaks Out Afresh. Damage Estimated at £3,000,000
TOKIO, Wednesday Evening.—The [?]re at Oasks broke out street in the evening, after the fireman who had fought it for 10 hours, thought they had control of it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires. Yass
Grass-fires have broken out in the Yass district. One on Mr. P. J. Magennis's Bloomfield property, on the Murrumbidgee, destroyed large quantities of grass and…
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An extensive bush fire has swept the Tweed River district, and the Cudgen sugar plantation suffered serious damage, over 3000 tons of cane being destroyed. Kanakas' huts…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday.--A bush fire broke out at Round Mountain, seven miles from Cudgen, on Tuesday. High winds springing up carried the flames to Cudgen plantation, where…
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The fire brigade received a call about 8.37 yesterday morning to Denmore-st., Bexley, where the grass on some vacant land was on fire. About a quarter of an acre of the grass and a…
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A fire occurred in G. H. Astridge's grocer's shop, Oxford-street, Waverley, last evening, and a quantity of empty packing cases and four panels of a dividing fence in the yard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Chicago Blaze. Chicago, Jan 18
A fire broke ond last night in the packing plant of Messrs. Schetartschild and Sulberger. The firemen confined the outbreak to the one building, which was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Brigade Mishap
While proceeding to a fire near Woid's Avenue last Saturday afternoon the Hurstville fire 'engine' met with disaster, which necessitated it being sent to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Equitable Fire. Valuable Securities Safe
NEW YORK, Thursday Evening—Securities to the value of £1,000,000, lodged at the office of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which was recently destroyed by fire have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Alleged Through Traction Engines
While traction engines are very useful and economic, where work in shires can be found for them, still extra precautions must be taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Fire Under." a Wireless Message
Just as our first edition was going to press. Mr. Richards, shipping, Daigety and Company, received an urgent telegram from their Melbourne agents, stating that the Suevie…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fires. Warehouse Burned Out. New York, Jan. 17
A fire occurred to-day which swept through a seven-story warehouse of the Terminal Warehouse Company near North River. The loss is estimated at £200,000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Osaka Fire. Tokio, Jan. 17
There was a recrudescence of the fire at Osaka in the evening, and it was not extinguished until midnight. The damage caused by the fire is estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wireless Station Burnt. Fire at Wentworth Hotel
Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a call was received by the Fire Brigade to the Wentworth Hotel. The whole force turned out, but on arrival at the hotel it was ascertained…
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