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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
9 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
Edington Cottage, situated on the banks of the South Creek, the property of Mr. Richard Edwards, and occupied by Mrs. Betts, was this morning burned to the ground. An inquiry into the cause was held to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly after six o'clock yesterday morning dense volumes of smoke were observed issuing from the upper portion of a building in Bank Court, off [?]ing-street, Sydney, occupied as a drug store by Messrs. John and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A further inspection of the scene of the fire on Sunday morning last, enables us to give more complete particulars respecting the extent of damage sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following swiftly upon the calamity recently recorded in our columns, we have now to chronicle the occurrence of another destructive fire, which broke out last dening, shortly after nine o'clock, in George stnet, iu tho Immediate vicinity of the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FIRE! Have some of our readers ever thought seriously over the full fearfulness of that dreaded word, if it should be suddenly shouted out, some day or night, by a passing person, seeing their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is by no means unlikely that we may, one of these days, have to record the fact that half the town has been destroyed by fire whilst tbo inhabitants of the other half were quietly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We regret to have to record the total destruction, by fire, at an early hour on Saturday morning of the flour mill in Green-street, Campbells Hill, known formerly as "Greens Mill," and "Pearce's Mill." The building was the property of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest on the recent fire at Pearce's Mill was held on Tuesday last, at the "Thistle Inn," West Maitland, before the coroner (James Thomson, Esq.,) and a jury of twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a motion for a new trial in an action which had in various shapes been repeatedly before the Court. The action was one upon a policy of assurance to recover compensation for certain stock said…
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