Fires in Victoria. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
A fire which has occurred at Morsehead's, at Ballarat, has done considerable damage. Two other smaller fires in the same city are reported, the last…
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Fires & bushfires, 1893
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Fire Brigade Board
THE fortnightly meeting of the Fire Brigade Board was held at the Town Hall last evening. The business was chiefly formal, consisting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Big Fire. Five Shops in Argent-street Consumed. Two Others Damaged. Most of the Losers Uninsured
ANOTHER destructive fire in wood-andiron shops in Argent-street has to be recorded. The scene of the fire was just below Weir's Criterion Hotel, and…
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MR. BARNETT, Coroner, has at present so much other business to attend to that he will be unable to fix a date for the holding of an inquest on the fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire in Melbourne. £30,000 Damage. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
A very big fire has occurred in Elizabeth-street, the premises attacked being the Excelsior Chambers. They are the property of a daughter of the…
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A FIVE-ROOMED dwelling-house, constructed of galvanised iron and lined with hessian, situated in Oxide-street, opposite the Messrs. Kimber's produce…
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A destructive fire is reported from Manila, in the Phillipine Islands, by which 400 houses were destroyed and many people rendered homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Oxide-street Fire. to the Editor of the Barrier Miner
SIR,—In the BARRIER MINER of 1st instant it was said that it was supposed that Mr. White's boarding house caught fire through Johnston's…
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MR. A. N. BARNETT, Coroner, con ducted an inquest this afternoon on the fire which took place in Berylstreet north on March 15, whereby a…
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MR. A. N. BARNETT, Coroner, con ducted an inquest this afternoon on the fire which took place in Beryl-street north on March 15, whereby a…
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MR. A. N. Barnett, Coroner, conducted an inquest at the courthouse this afternoon upon the fire which occurred at the corner of Brown and Iodide streets…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Sea. a New South Wales Collier Burned. [By Cable.] London
News bas been received that the barque King James, of Newcastle, N. S. W., bound to San Francisco laden with coal, has been burned at…
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IN addressing the jury at the inquest which was held yesterday afternoon upon the fire which occurred at the corner of Brown and Iodide streets on…
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AT 8 o'clock last night a four-roomed house at the corner of Newton and Gypsum streets, West Broken Hill, was destroyed by fire. The Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Argent-street Fire. Coroner's Inquest
MR. A. N. BARNETT, coroner, opened an inquest at the Courthouse this morning upon the fire which occurred in Argent-street on the morning of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Minimg Accident. a Supposed "Miss-fire." [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Robert Corbett and L. Eisbang, two miners, had a wonderfully narrow escape from instant death while they were working in the Midas mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Disasters. a Tidal Wave and Blizzard. A Colossal Prairie Fire. Great Damage Done. [By Cable.] London
Intelligence from New York shows that Chicago and the country to the westward of it has been the subject of a remarkable succession of natural…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliiery Explosion. Two Hundred Miners Entombed. The Enginehouse on Fire. [By Cable.] London, Tuesday Evening
News has just been received of a terrible colliery disaster in Wales. From the details to hand, it appears that an explosion of firedamp occurred…
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THE meeting of the Fire Brigade board last night lapsed for want of a quorum. The members of the board will meet on Saturday afternoon to make…
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IN connection with the fire which recently occurred in Argent-street South, at Christmas' and other premises, the inquest on which has been…
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