Fires. Cycle Depot Outbreak
GOULBURN, Monday.--Last evening a fire was discovered in Jobson's Cycle and Sports Depot. The brigade was promptly on the scene, and extinguished tho flames. A…
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Fire Brigade Quarters
Although the single men's quartern at the Fire Brigade Headquarters Station, Castlereagh-street, City, have been given a cost of whitewash, and generally made as clean as…
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A wood and iron building at the rear of the residence of Mr. T.H. Kelly, Glenyarrah, New South Head-road, was destroyed by fire this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Fire on the Allinga
After Captain Irvine's report of the fire on board the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Allinga was read at the last meeting of the Marine…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Board of Fire Commissioners. Concessions to Volunteer Firemen
Last month, in preparing the estimates of expenditure for the current year, the Board of Fire Commissioners provided for certain increases in pay to members of the permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush Fires on South Coast
Serious bush fires have occurred during the past week, on the South Coast, and the Illawarra Ranges have been brilliantly, illuminated. Fires raged in the neighborhood of…
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A spark from a bush fire was the cause of a fire which broke out yesterday afternoon in a wooden building, 30ft x 20ft, situated at the rear of Mr. T. H. Kelly's residence…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Darlinghurst's New Fire Station
The fine new fire station erected by the Fire Brigade's Board order, at Darlinghurst, which was described and illustrated in the "Evening News" on December 21 last, has been handed…
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Maclure Brothers' general store, at The Rock, near Wagga, was burned down last week, with the bulk store and an adjacent cottage. The total damage is estimated at between £7000…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Considerable [?]citement was caused this afternoon when if was discovered that the carge of the Union Company's steamer [?]pouri which is being…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Platinum and Fire-damp
An instrument of such accuracy as to have been pronounced on of precision is the claim made for the fro-damp detector of Mr. Ralph of Newcastle-on-Tyne (Eng.). It is based on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Fire-fighters. Petrol Motor Engines Arrive
The two new petrol motor-pumping engines ordered by the Fire Brigades Board have arrived in Sydney, and were yesterday unshipped from the steamer Commonwealth,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Carried to a Farce. Fire in a Convent
PARIS, Tuesday.--A fire broke out yesterday in the Convent of St. Claire at Lapuy. In order to keep the rule forbidding men to enter, the nuns barricaded the burning building…
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Hundreds of acres of grass were destroyed last week by bush area in the Bombala district. New South Wales. A large quantity of wheat and straw was destroyed in a bush fire a few…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires Increasing. Returns for January
The fire returns for the month of January show the work of the brigade throughout the city, suburbs, and country, to be a record, The number of calls received were…
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The Metropolitan Fire Brigade received by the steamer Commonwealth two petrol motor engines. These have been set up, and an official trial of their capabilities will be made to-day…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Considerable excitement was caused this afternoon when it was discovered that the cargo of the Union Company's steamer Manapouri which is lying…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A fire broke out on the Union- S.S. Company's steamer Mamapouri, berthed in the river, tills afternoon, but fortunately the outbreak was promptly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer on Fire. Outbreak on Manapouri. Melbourne
Late yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in the fan-room on the Union Company's steamer Manapouri, at No. 12 wharf. The fames soon spread, and in a few…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Paddington's Water Reserve. in Case of Fire or Drought
Bricks and mortar and all the necessary accessories associated with building are to seen adjacent to the Paddington reservoir but these dwelling in the vicinity need have no cause for…
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