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Ultimo was garish with fire and alive with people at an early hour this morning. when the big are lights usually look down upon empty streets. The big bedstead and bedding factory…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Messrs. S. Forster and Sons' bedstead and bedding factory, a two-story brick building at the corner of Mary Ann-street and Bulwarra-road, Ultimo, was gutted by fire at an…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A report has been submitted to the Marine Board by Mr. Lewis, chief inspector of explosives, concerning his inquiry into a fire which occurred on the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The official statistics of London fires during [?] show that during the 12 months there were [?] fires an increase of 1250 compared with [?] previous year, and the largest number…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →An outbreak of fire at Wee Waa (N.S.W.) destroyed the better part of the business section of the town, the total loss being estimated at £40,000. A similar outbreak at Brewarrina accounted for £250 damage…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Addressing the members of the Institution of Post Office Electrical Engineers (London) on "Precautions against Fire," Mr. A. Stubbs (senior assistant engineer-in-chief to the Post…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →On Wednesday morning a house occupied by Ah Mann, Chinese gardener, situated at Crankie's Plains, two miles from Bombala, was found to be a heap of smouldering ruins. On a search being made portions of a human…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The steamer Ethel Wolfe, bound from Geelong to the United Kingdom with a shipment of wheat, put into Fremantle on fire late on Saturday night, February 10. She called in at Bunbury to take in 900 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The fire which broke out early yesterday morning at Messrs. S. Forster and Son's iron bedstead and wire mattress factory, Ultimo, completely gutted the building and caused a loss…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With Two Dare-Devil Leaders, a young Army Officer withstood the Acid Test of courage in a Battle in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →From Brougham-placeânow Rowe-streetâto King-street, has, since the mid-fifties, been a busy spot. No Mr. Joseph Wyatt, once the occupant of a house in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The prevalence of bush fires in the country to the immediate west and south of Sydney has caused a good deal of anxiety to those whose property has been menaced. Last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Just on midnight on Friday a fire broke out in the bedstead factory of Messrs. Foster and Sons, Mary Ann-street, Ultimo, which resulted in the complete destruction of the building…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →COBAR, Saturday.--A big fire broke out at 9.15 last night in premises occupied by A. Kimbel, photograph and fancy goods shop, in Barton-street. The origin of the outbreak is a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday a three-storied building in Thomas-street, city, occupied by Quong Tlh War as a Chinese store, was damaged by fire. The ground floor with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Considerable damage and personal injury were caused as the result of a fierce blaze, which practically destroyed a three-story brick building at Errol-street, North…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At about midnight on Saturday night a fire occurred in the vicinity of the Victoria-hall, Manly. The premises are situated in the Corso, the main thoroughfare of the suburb. The basement of the hall was recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out at 6 o'clock on Sunday morning in a two-storey wooden store, attached to the premises of the Sydney Milk and Ice Company. Ivy-street. Redfern. The came of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out at Cobar in the photograph and fancy foods shop occupied by A. Kimbel, in Barton-street. The place, in which there was no one at the time, was entirely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Through some unknown cause, a fire broke out in the grocery store of Messrs Kong Tip War and Company, 211 Thomas-street, city, early on Sunday morning, and destroyed £2000…
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