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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
10 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
WE have on previous occasions drawn attention to the risk of disastrous confiagrations to which the property and the lives of a great proportion of the inhabitants of West Maitland are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is with no little regret that we have to announce, for the first time since Newcastle has been a port of any note, the destrnction by fire of a large vessel within its barbour. On Monday evening, shortly before eight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Just prior to the departure of the City of Hobart from the Bluff, intelligence was received of a most destructive fire having taken place at Invercargill, by which between fifteen and twenty thousand pounds' worth of property…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At an early hour last Monday morning Brisbane was aroused by the fire alarm bell. From the middle of the city dense volumes of smoke rose and obscured the sky, while a lurid glow overspread all beneath, making the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some months ago we were informed on good authority that a movement was likely to be set on foot for the establishment of a fire brigade in Maitland, the insurance offices being disposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN referring, on Thursday last, to the want of proper arrangements and appliances for the protection of Maitland against fire, we remarked that a project for supplying that want had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday afternoon we were gratified by the perusal of the following important telegram, sent by Mr. Wolfe yesterday from Sydney to Mr. Strachan:— "I have obtained from the Insurance Companies, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The third half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday—Mr. J. L. Montefi[?]re in the chair. The Manager read the following report and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday Mr. J. E. Wolfe and Mr. John Lee canvassed a portion of the town for subscriptions towards the support of the Fire Brigade about to be organised, and in a short space of time they collected about £38…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brisbane, Friday.—A fire broke out out this morning at [?] past seven, at the corner of Albert and Queen streets. The whole square was burnt up to George-street, and amongst other buildings destroyed were the Union Bank, and Bank of…
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