A Fire Engine for Maitland
MANY of our Maitland readers will we think peruse with sincere pleasure the following letter. It is a generous gift on the part of the Insurance Company,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1856
11 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
The Fire Engine Movement
On Monday evening, a meeting was held at the FitzRoy Hotel, of the gentlemen some time since named as a committee to make preliminary enquiries in reference to the procuring of a fire engine for Maitland, Mr, P…
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A pabilo meeting was beld at the Sir William'?-Denison Inn, West Maitland, pennant to advertissment, on Monday evening, to coosidsr the permanent plaoementof the engine preseuted to…
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OUR readers will learn with pleasure that the fire engine presented by some of the Insurance Companies in Sydney will arrive to-day, and will be lodged…
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The engine presented to this town by the Sydney Insurance companies duly arrived on Tuesday, by steamer, and had not long been landed before two of Mr. Turner's hor[?], harnessed to it, were drawing it at as…
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Those who were present at the Theatre on Tuesday evening could little anticipate that the successful performances of that night would be the last they would have the pleasure of witnessing (for the present at…
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A meeting of volunteers took place on Monday evening, at Mr. Cobcroft's, East Maitland, when several names were added to the roll, and additions to the funds at disposal were received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Q[?]er Sessions. [?] Tuesday; August 12. (Before the Chairman, assisted by Major crummer and Mr. Rus[?].) Unlawfully Presenting Fire-arms
James [?] was indi[?]ted for uni[?]fully having, [?] E[?]e[?] Fogar[?]y, with [?] to alarm her, a [?]to[?], at Bolwarra, on the 16th of July. A second count charged him with having un[?]fully presented the same…
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Boston (U.S.) has been the scene of a fire destructive to life and property. A Boston paper describes the catastrophe as follows:- "The fire commenced in the grocery and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British [?]acts. Destructive Fire at Messrs. Broadwood's Pianoforte Manufactory
A most destructive fire broke out in the evening of the 12th Augustin the extensive premises of the Messrs. Broadwood, the celebrated piano manufacturers, situated in the Horseferry-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Liverpool.—six Persons Burnt "To Death. (Leeds Mercury, Aug. 23.)
We have to record a calamitous fire in Liverpool, in which no less than six persona were burnt to death. The dreadful disaster occurred early on…
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