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While children were playing with fireworks in a street in Summerhill, Dublin, on Sunday night, a lighted squib fell in a shop basement, where there was an oil tank, which exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →While children were playing with fireworks in a street in Summerhill, Dublin, on Sunday night, a lighted squib fell in a shop basement, where…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A child's prank of throwing a squib through a ground-floor window of a Dublin tenement house, resulted in a tank of oil catching alight, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire at Stanthorpe this morning destroyed the Seamen's Buildings, occupied by G. Brown's cafe, Webster's cafe, Iwer's, agent; Buzacott and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The arrest took place in exciting circumstances last night of a man whom the police found outside a back window at the premises of the Australian Blo[?] and Robe Store in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A disastrous fire occurred at Cairns in the early hours of this morning in buildings situated in Spence Street, as a remit of which damage estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A disastrous fire occurred in Manning Street lust night, when half a dozen shops and a couple of dwelling houses were destroyed. The origin of the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The fire alarm at the corner of Brook and Ahearn streets, Randwick, has been tampered with and the gear stolon, on several…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The worst are experienced here for l8 years broke out at 10.30 last night, just as the picture theatre was emptying. There was a number of wooden shops in Manning-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →disatrous five broke out this morning in a block of buildings in Spence-street, resulting in damage to the extent of £17,000.. The buildings desttoyed were occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bu[?]res and the numerous out-breaks in the City and Suburbs should remind those uninsured to insure at once with the Mercantile Mutual…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five shops were destroyed by a fire which broke out at 2 a.m. today. The places destroyed were Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Advice has been received from the postmaster at Stanthorpe that a serious outbreak of fire occurred there this morning, in which Sleaman's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sparks from the copper fire in the laundry started a blaze which almost destroyed the house of Richard Vanderfield, in New Canterbury-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This is what remained of Muldoon's and Rose's buildings at Taree after the big fire on Monday night. Five shops and a dwelling were destroyed. The town has a fire engine, but no water supply. The firemen connected the engine with the river, but had to wait an hour for the tide to rise before they could work the pumps…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—Detailed news shows that the disaster which once more overtook the poor Mission of the New Hebrides is even worse than was expected. Nothing remains…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Richard V[?]nderfield, of New Canterbury-road, Hurlstons Park, was awakened from sleep at 12.30 a.m. today, to find flames b[?]ing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Samuel Dimdore's drapery shop, George-street West, was damaged by fire last night. A passer-by noticed smoke issuing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The fusing of electric wires caused an outbreak of fire behind the scone at [?]y'n Vandeville Theatre, Newtown, at about 8.[?] last night. The Newtown Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Linens, cottons, muslins, and so on, become incombustible when dipped in alum. If alum is added to the rinsing water, therefore, the desired result is…
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