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The regulations framed by the Fire Brigades Board, under the Height of Buildings Act, passed by the last Parliament, are of a drastic nature. But there appears to be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Extensive areas of Brass land have been burned and many miles of fencing destroyed in the Albury district by bush fires, the origin of which is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 1 a.m. a are broke out in the hairdressing saloon kept by Peter Andrews. Milltary-road, Neutral Bay. It was extinguished by the brigade with buckets of water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While Fireman S. Spring was travelling to the city by tram car No. 891, he noticed the car had caught fire at the fuse-box. The car was pulled up, and with the aid of a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In spite of the exciting experience which Miss [?] fire diver at the White City, [?] early in the week, when her clothes caught on fire too soon, she re-appeared last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fow minutes before 10 o'clock last night a fire occurred on the schooner Alma Doopel, lying at Langdon's Wharf. Johnstone's Bay, and resulted in the captain's cabin and a rope…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →With the flames leaping about 10 fest into the air, and dancing half-way across the road thee aremen thought, when they were on their way early this morning to the fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The four-story building at 156 and 153 Sussex-street, occupied by Messrs. Lewis and Whitty, manufacturers, and Fountain A. Winter, machinery Importer, was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A big fire occurred about 4 o'clock yesterday morning in premises occupied by Messrs. Lewis and witty and Mr. Fountain A. Winer, in Sussex-street, between Market and King streets…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Early yesterday a watchman, attracted by the suspicious movements of two men on a place of vacant land in the vicinity of Darling Harbor, went to investigate. The men made…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Next door to Broomfield's ship-chandlery warehouse in Sussex-street, a fire started on the first door of Lewis and Whitty's four-storied building early on Friday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire broke out this afternoon in the furniture warehouse o Messrs. R. M. Simblish and Company, Beauchamp-lane, off Reservoir-street, Surry Hills. The building consists of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ah up-to-date fire -fighting system has been instituted at the Clyde Engineering Works, Granville, and it is stated that the improvements made will render it possible to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Clyde Engineering Works are taking every possible precaution against the destruction of their large works by fire, and the company has recently had installed a patent valve…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Messrs Broomfield's premises have not been demolished, as stated by one of the papers, the only damage was to a bulk store, but as they have another…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The District Coroner (Mr. C. J. Helm) opened an Inquiry this morning into the cause of a fire on January 13, by which six stack of hay on Frederick Cheney's farm…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There are no less than 50 fire stations in the city and suburbs. Of the total number, 26 are maintained by the State. The remaining 24 are administered with the assistance of local…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The present summer is undoubtedly the most memorable on record in respect of the number of bush fifes. This is due primarily to the extraordinary stretch of dry weather, taken…
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →At 1.33 a.m. yesterday a fire broke out at 275 Sussex-street, occupied by a firm of electro-platers, when two floors of the building were damaged by fire and water. The premises of R…
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