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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires
216 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 11
It is reported from Sutherland that Pessley, the man alleged to have shot Constable M'Lean at Cabramatta, was discovered 150 yards on the Sydney side…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early last Friday morning Mr. Thomas Baker, sen., who has been a resident of the district for over 30 years, had his dwelling house with its contents destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Let thy gold be cast in the furnace, Thy red gold, precious and bright; Do not fear the hungry fire. With its caverns of burning light…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Many fires, accompanied by serious destraction of property, are reported from all parts of the Continent. The town of Concarnean, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Word has been received to-day that the woolshed at Weilmore Station, one of the finest of the Western Division, has been totally destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out in a restaurant in George-street, owned by George Boatwright. The contents of four rooms were quite destroyed, and other rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The woolscouring works belonging ta the Sydney Woolscouring Co., at Botany Road, Waterloo, were consumed by fire early this morning, when 160 bales of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A house belonging to Mr. P. J, Clare, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. The origin of the fire is not known. Both house and furniture were insured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ever since the passing of the Fire Brigades Act, twelve years or so ago, the relations between the fire brigade on one side and the Council, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A menagerie has been burnt at Liverpool, eighty of the animals being destroyed, comprising five leopards, five lions, three tigers, pumas, hyenas, bears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great fire has taken place at Smyrna, in which the Custom-house was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colston Hall, Bristol, where the International Trades Congress met, has been destroyed by fire. The valuable organ was rained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News was received in Sydney this morning that the barque Hollinwood, which left Sydney for London on May 22, has been abandoned, on fire, at sea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Westminister, formerly capital of British Colombia, has been partially destroyed by fire. The damage it estimated at half a million sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A wire from Oberon states that an old dwelling-house, used as a storeroom, in which was kept a quantity of butter, tools, horse fodder, potatoes, and sundries, was burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alderman Hamey is interesting himself in the formation of the fire brigade. There is a very good fire engine, but the old brigade disbanded some years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out on Mr. Henry Powley's farm, Long Swamp, on Saturday, by which two sheds, two drays, 28 bags of wheat, and 78 bags of potatoes were destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lord Hampden witnessed a display by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade this afternoon and highly eulogised the men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Government have allotted 30 feet frontage in Macquarie-street, adjoining the Town Hall, to the Dubbo Fire Brigade for the purpose of a fire station. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At about 6.45 last evening a fire was observed by Mr. Turnbull to be blazing in an upstairs room of Mrs. W. Sawyer's residence, in Keppel-street. Mr. Turnbull immediately…
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