Correspondence for Fire Only. To the Editor of the National Advocate
National Advocate · Thursday 13 May 1897 · page 2
SIR,—Now that we have had three fires, it is just as well to be prepared for a fourth, and my reason for sending yon these lines is to call our railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Paris Fire. Sympathy of the Czar. London
National Advocate · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 2
The Czar, writing to President Faure, has addressed him as "my very dear and great friend," and has expressed his condolence with the relatives of the…
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The Bathurst Post · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 5
2.55 p.m. on the 12th instant the [?] bell rang out. The cry went round down, "Fire on the Show Ground!" [?] stampede took place, and sure…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Sea. Several Persons Suffocated. Stokers Compelled to Work. London, May 10
The Bathurst Post · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 3
A fire occurred on board the Mallory Line steamer Leona on the voyage from New York to Galveston, Texas. Several persons were suffocated, Eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire In IV. Zealand. SYDNEY
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 3
By a fire at Gisbourne (N.Z.) yesterday morning several business establishments and the Bank of New South Wales were completely destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Penrith. SYDNEY
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 3
Several business premises at Penrith were destroyed by fire this morning. The inmates herely escaped with their lives, while a block of buildings narrowly escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Orange. a Hotel Destroyed. Orange
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 2
The [?] Art Hotel, kept by John Martin, was completely [?] by fire about 3 o'clock this morning. Constables Leonard and Summerfield, who were on duty gave the…
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Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 24 May 1897 · page 2
Yesterday morning between 4 and 5 o'clock a fire broke out in Milltown, and the whole of the premises were destroyed. The house was built of slabs r[?]fed with iron, and…
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National Advocate · Monday 24 May 1897 · page 2
An epidemic of fires is evidently afflicting Bathurst, for early yesterday morning an unoccupied house in Almastreet, South Bathurst, belonging to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on a Coal Ship. London
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 3
News has been received of the burning of the ship Buckhurst, which left Newcastle, New South Wales, on February 2 last, with cargo of coal for Panama. The crow…
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National Advocate · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 2
The frequency of outbreaks of fire in Bathurst lately has impressed the fact that some inquiry into one or more of them is necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Milltown Fire. INQUEST
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 2
An inquest was held thin morning at the court House to enquire into the came of the at fire at Milltown, by which the home of George Pecks was destroyed by fire…
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National Advocate · Monday 31 May 1897 · page 2
On Saturday morning an inquiry was held, before Mr. C. E. Smith, P.M., as to the origin of the fire which occurred at Sooth Bathurst on Sunday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cobar Fire
National Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2
By the fire which destroyed Mr. Neil Morrison's old hotel at Cobar that gentleman is a very heavy loser, as also is Mr Thomas, the licensee. The hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Fire. SYDNEY
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 7 June 1897 · page 3
The premises of Messrs. P. Hayman and Co., general merchants, of Dunedin (N.Z.) were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Paris Bazaar Fire. a Great Burning Horror. Pair Ladies Roasted in Flames
National Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1897 · page 2
Sydney "D T", with characteristic enterprise, has had wired from Albany (W.A,) the fall account, reaching there by mail on Friday last, of the Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire. SYDNEY
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 10 June 1897 · page 3
A fire, threatening serious results, broke out in Devonshire-street early this morning, but though the energy of the fire brigades the fire was confined to the partial destruction…
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National Advocate · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 2
The following constitute the team from the Bathurst Fire Brigade to take part in the Fire Brigades' Demonstration and competitions in Newcastle on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Train on Fire
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 23 June 1897 · page 2
Last night during the passage of the special train from Sydney to Bathurst great excitement was caused by the discovery that a portion of one of the carriages…
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National Advocate · Thursday 24 June 1897 · page 2
Some consternation was caused among many of the passengers by the 10.80 special train from Sydney to Bathurst on Tuesday night by an accidental…
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