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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
49 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 3
We published, in Thursday's Mercury, so much of the evidence taken at the adjourned inquest at Newcastle as could be forwarded per train, adding, by telegram, the verdict of the jury. The following is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamship Albion brings New Zealand intelligence to the 9th instant. From telegrams published in the Grey River Argus we obtain the following particulars of an extensive fire in Auckland:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Fire!" a fearful thing to hear in the dead of sight, in a crowded city where human beings are huddled by thousands in close rooms and inflammable houses that will burn like touchwood at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A special despatch to the Chicago Evening Journal from Des Moines gives the following account of an attack on the train of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad:—"The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About half-past four o'olook yesterday after noon a fire broke out in a large hay shed, connected with the extensive premises off Harrisstreet, Ultimo, occupied by the Sydney 'Bus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pittsburgh (Pa.), August 20.—An explosion occurred this morning in a still of the Commercial Oil Refinery, scattering oil in all directions and over a heavy brick wall into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the morning of the 15th October, about twenty minutes past midnight, a fire broke out at the lower end of Queen-street, Auckland. Behind the buildings facing the principal streets, are a series of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early on Sunday morning a fire occurred in Regent-street, Campbell's Hill, West Maitland, which resulted in the destruction of a small four-roomed building, the property of Mrs. P. M…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At about half-past six yesterday morning, a large fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Lawrence and Adam, wholesale grocers and wine and spirit merchants, at No. 61 William-street, opposite…
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