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A great fire has occurred in San Sebastian. It started in a theatre, but fortunately the audience had just left the building. The fire destroyed the Municipal Library,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Later details of the fire by which the Hotel Dewey, in Omaha, Nebraska, was destroyed, show that the loss of life was not so great as at first reported…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The explosion and fire at Edmunds Brothers, chemists. of 91 Oxford-street. City, no February 19, formed the subject of an inquiry before the City Coroner this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire, which in a very short space of time practically [?] two cottages, broke out in Mary-street, Waterise, shortly before noon to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At whatever minute the men decide to return to work the Mortlake gas works are ready to receive them, and operations may be commenced in all departments without a moment's|…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Turramurra Volunteer Fire Brigade, which dealt so valiantly with the outbreak of fire, on Coonabarra-road, Wahroonga, on Saturday night, desires to thank Constable Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Suburban are [?] were called our to a number of grass eyes this afternoon. The most important were at Oxford-street, [?] field, where an were of grass and several…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With the aid of garden hose, the fire brigade quenched a fire at 36 Edward-street, Summer hill, occupied, by Mr. W. A. Parkinson. The premises and contents were damaged by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Advices received from Capetown state that in connection with the fire which broke out on the steamer Whakarua it has been ascertained that…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A number of fires, involving the destruction of three homes, and causing other damage, occurred in the suburbs yesterday. The first was in Arncliffe, where the cottage…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The fire in the coal at Mortlake is a very small matter, as it affects only 20 or 80 tons, and there is no danger of it spreading. Inquiry at the works this morning showed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Things are still very quiet at Mortlake so far as the men are concerned. They held a mass meeting at 8 o'clock yesterday morning in a local hall, and immediately afterwards the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--A fire, attended by circumstances which culminated in an arrest, was reported to the Footscray fire station at 1.51. a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Omaha (Nebraska) an hold has been burned and a score of people lie dead in the ruins. Two of the guests at the hotel became insane with fright…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was some excitement in a restaurant Rowe-street yesterday when a primus stove, which, on account of the gas strike, was being used for cooking purposes by some means…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British, French, and Italian merchant steamers have been bombarded by Bulgarian artillery stationed at Chankeui, on the coast of the Sea of Marmora, and have been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A breach of international law has been committed through the Bulgarians firing upon the British steamer Mooris. The Bulgarians also fired upon some French…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bush fires occurred yesterday at Macquarie-street, Chatswood, Strathfield, Waverley, and Neutral Bay, but the extent of the damage was not large in any instance…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Board of Fire Commissioners notified Randwick Council that a fire station will be erected at Kensington this year. In reply to a letter from the council . asking the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The transfer of the old fire bell is upon the point of being made from the recently-elected fire board to the Municipality of Parramatta. The council a few weeks ago wrote expressing…
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