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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
17 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
A private letter from a station on the Upper Darling gives the following graphic account of a fire in that neighbourhood. The writer is a young man well known to many Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have to chronicle to-day the occurrence of one of the most extensive and destructive fires that ever took place in Sydney. It appears that at about half-past three o'clock this morning, some of the residents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the accounts of the fire already published, wo have to add the melancholy intelligence that Henry Vaughan died yesterday from the injuries which he received through the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In these days of fire-alarms, when electricity sends by wires, from one end of the city and country to another, if need be, the tidings that fire has begun its work of destruction, we begin…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The disastrous fire on Sunday morning, 10th December, was succeeded by one on the night of the 12tb, much larger in extent, and bringing in its train very serions losses to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In continuation of my account in, your issue of 23rd December, I forward you all the further information I can get, with regard to the great bush fires, which went through this back country. I have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A disastrous fire occurred between one and two yesterday morning, at Weat Kempsey. The store and private residence of Mr. L. B. Redgate were wholly destroyed. Of the goods in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 9 o'clock yesterday forenoon the City Coroner commenced at the Gladstone Hotel, Miller's Point, an inquest respecting the origin of a fire at No. 12, O'Neill's-buildings, Kent and Clyde streets, Miller's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early yesterday morning, Messrs. Barker and Co.'s Tweed Manufactory, near the corner of Bathurst and Sussex streets, was destroyed by fire, together with the greater part of its contents,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A six-story granite building in Dock-street, near Third, built by Dr. Jayne, and occupied by Leisenring's large printing establishment, a number of book binderies, etc., was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the 22nd May, the American squadron, consisting of the Wabash, Congress, Brooklyn, Plymouth, Shenandoah, Juniate, and Wachusett, under the command of Admiral Alder, were at the time lying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday, the Coroner, Mr. T. W. Pearse, held an inquiry at the Royal Hotel, Muswellbrook, into the circumstances attending the destruction by fire on Monday morning of premises belonging to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious fire took place in Canterbury Cathedral on Sept. 3. It appears that at about half-past ten a plumber was at work in the roof of the east end, when from some cause his coke fire got upset, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a few minutes before midnight a fire broke out in the city, that for magnitude and destructiveness, has been unparalleled in Auckland. At twelve o'clock dense volumes of smoke rolled up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At a few minutes after one o'clock this morning, a most disastrous fire broke out in Hunter-street, by which the large Hall of the School of Arts, the reading-room adjoining, and the shops occupied by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The report in our last issue of this fire, given at some length—although at a time when we otherwise should have been at press—precluded us from giving all the particulars, and from enquiries which we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday, Mr. T. W. Pearse, coroner, at the request of Messrs. Creer, Gardner, and Others, held an inquest on the late fire at Mr. Hollinshead's, Hunter-street, Newcastle, before a jury of twelve…
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