Fire at Southgate
WE have received further particulars respecting the destruction of Mr. J. Wingfield's residence. It appears that shortly before midnight on Thursday, Mrs. Wingfield had occasion to attend a sick child…
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Fires & bushfires, 1892
6 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
Preventing Fires in the Bush
A GENTLENMAN, who is the resident partner on a large pastoral property in North Queensland, sends a southern contemporary the following description of the way they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Fire at Cape Town. The Loss Sustained by Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew
SELDOM has Cape Town been visited by a more melancholy calamity than the burning of the Exhibition Theatre, the Native Affairs Office, and the Goad Hope Temple, all in one fatal afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Round the Camp Fire
VARIOUS are the means adopted to break drunkards off their inordinate love for drink/ Apropros of this, I remember once hearing a rather amusing case in point, in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Around the Camp Fire. (In the Australasian[?] Pastoralists' Review.)
GADBY, during his residence in the bush, had earned for himself a reputation for pedantry, based on a predilection he had for using long and imposing words, and for interlarding his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire at Meat-Preserving Works. The Stock Markers Affected
SYDNEY, MONDAY.—A fire occurred last evening at the works of the Sydney Meat-Preservirig company at Rockwood. The works are of an extensive character, and…
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