Big Fire in Tamworth. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon
A fire broke out to-day at Coben and Levy's paint and kerosene store. Tamworth, in the New England district. The fire raged furiously for five…
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Fires & bushfires, 1897
332 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 17
Big Fire in Tamworth. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday Afternoon
A fire broke out to-day at Cohen and Levy's paint and kerosene store, Tamworth, in the New England district. The fire raged furiously for five…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Fire in Wellington. AUCKLAND, Friday Night
A Chinese b[?]arding-house in Hainingstreet has been burned down. One Chinese perished in the flames, and another was badly injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Festivities and Fire. LONDON
At the Baroness Burdett Courts garden party the colonial Premiers and bishops now in England, the Jadgee, and the officers of the colonial troops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →3rd Edition Miner Office, 6 p.m. Big Fire at Hay. Flames Fifty Feet High. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon
Meakes and Wheeler's general store at Hay was destroyed by fire last night. A large quantity of spirits was on the premises, and fed the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following appeared tn our late ditions yesterday:— Big Fire at Hay. Flames Fifty Feet High. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Tuesday Afternoon
Meakes and Wheeler's general store at Hay was destroyed by fire last night. A large quantity of spirits was on the premises, and fed the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in a Bendigo Mine. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
A week ago a fire was discovered in an old shaft on the Carlisle lease, Bendigo. It is believed that it was caused by some boys throwing down…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fatal Fire. One Man Barned to Death. Narrow Escape of Another. MELBOURNE
News is to hand that a party of surveyors in the Dunolly district had camped in a house which took fire. One man was burnt to death, and another had a narrow escape,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Sea. The Ship Backhurst Burned. A Long Fight with the Flames. The Ship Abandoned. One Boat Still Missing. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The R.M.S. Mariposa, which has arrived from San Francisco via Auckland, brings particulars of the burning of the ship Backhurst on the voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fire at Mount Gambier. An Intoxicated Man Burned to Death. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Wednesday Afternoon
At Mount Gambier yesterday, Peter Ryan, a stranger, aged 42 years, who had just left hospital, engaged a room at Mrs. Wade's boarding-house…
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YESTERDAY was the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Block 11 (Proprietary mine) fire. No surface indications of the fire show except on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fire at Mount Gambier. An Intoxicated Man Burned to Death. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Wednesday Afternoon
At Mount Gambier yesterday, Peter Ryan, a stranger, aged 42 years, who had just left the hospital engaged a room at Mrs. Wade's boarding-house…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disasters at Sea. Wreck of the Port Douglas. The Gulf of Martaban on Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The Sydney Underwriters' Association has received a cable message stating that the ship Port Douglas struck a reef at Cape Recliffe and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flour Mills Destroyed by Fire. Sydney
Clifford Love's flour mills at Lane Cove were destroyed by fire yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire at Croydon. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
A telegram from Croydon eays that a big fire has occurred there. It broke out in Mrs. Connors' drapery store, Sircom-street, and within an hour and…
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AT a meeting of the Fire Frigade Board last night, with Mr. Mills in the chair, a deputation from the Record Reign Celebration Committee…
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A FOUR ROOMED house at the corner of Blende and Chloride streets, occupied and owned by Frederick Hocker, blacksmith, was partially destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recent Fire in Dixson-street. Sydney
At the inquest on the recent fire in Dixson-street, a verdict of incendiarism was returned against some persons unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The Star" Burnt Out. Office Completely Gutted. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The office of The Australian Star newspaper, in Castlereagh-street, was completely gutted by fire at 5 o'clock this morning The office was immediately opposite Ma[?]tin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Star" Fire. Farther Details. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday Afternoon
Only the four bare walls and front office of the Australian Star were left standing after the fire. At a long distance the flames resembled the roaring blast of a furnace…
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