West Maitland Volunteer Fire Brigade
On New Year's Eve (Wednesday evening), the members of the West Maitland Volunteer Fire Brigade celebrated their anniversary by a dinner, which was served in the engine-shed by…
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Fires & bushfires, 1874
34 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Disastrous Fire at Boolong. (From the Shoalhaven News, Jan 10.)
A fire occurred at Boolong on Monday night last, by which the premises of Mr. Alexander Stewart were not only totally destroyed, but some of the inmates have received such severe injuries as to…
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A fire was discovered in the No. 3 pit, Four-mile Creek, the property of Messrs. T. W. Pearse and Co., on Sunday morning, 18th January. As the circumstances under which the fire was supposed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at the Pantechnicon. London, February 16
The Pantechnicon in Belgravia has been destroyed by fire. An immense quantity of valuable furniture has been consumed, and the pictures which have been burnt were alone estimated to be worth a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supreme Court.—thursday, Feb. 19. (From the S. M. Herald. Sittings for Trial of Causes. Banco Court. (Before Mr. Justice Cheeke and a jury of four.) SWEET V. the Imperial Fire Insurance Company
The trial of this case was now resumed and concluded. It was an action upon a policy of fire insurance upon certain printing plant, contained in premises at Plattsburg, which were destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Large Fire in Collins-street. (From the Melbourne Argus, April 22.)
A fire which has done a very large amount of damage occurred on the premises of Mr. W. Detmold, wholesale stationer and book-binder, 44 Collins-street, early yesterday morning. At five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Calamitous Fire in New York. (From the New York Herald, Jan. 14.)
The popular ear, listening to catch the last munmur of the tale of holiday festivities, is to be shocked by a story of horror and death—a story for which the history of the dead year affords no…
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On Thursday morning, Mr. Henry Hough who is the lessee of the Railway Mill, Elgin-street, West Maitland discovered, on coming to work after breakfast that the silk-dresser on the middle floor had been on fire during the night close to the head,…
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On Mandat evening the inquest upon the fire (of Wednesday night, July 1) in the Railway Mill, Elgin-street, West Maitland, was resumed at Mr. Brewer's Railway Inn, by Mr. T. W. Pearse, the…
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A tremendous conflagration has occurred at Chicago (United States). Owing to the strong wind which prevailed, the flames were for a time uncontrollable, and it was not until twenty-five blocks of…
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At Liverpool, a landing stage, half-a-mile long, as been entirely destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Belfast, Victoria. (From the Belfast Gazette, July 31.)
On Wednesday morning last, about one o'clock, the inhabitants of Belfast were alarmed by the cry of "fire," winch proved to be in the vicinity of Southcombe's timber-yard, originating in the back…
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A fire occurred at St. James's Church (Church of England), Morpeth on Tuesday, about noon, which might have been the means of the whole edifice being destroyed; but, owing to favourable…
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Mr. T. W. Pearse, coroner, held an inquiry yesterday at Morpeth, into the circumstances connected with the destruction by fire, on Tuesday lost, of a portion of the roof of St. James's Church, Morpeth, particulars concerning which were given in…
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A destructive fire broke out on the morning of Thursday in Bolton-street, Newcastle, in a large stone building occupied as a wine and spirit store by Messrs. Wood Brothers, by Mr. Frank Gardner…
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The Chicago Tribune of July 15 devotes nearly four pages to an account of the great fire on the night before. We give the following particulars and incidents in addition to what was telegraphed:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Fire at Newcastle. Coroner's Inquiry. (From the Newcastle Pilot, Sept. 8.)
An inquiry into the cause and origin of the late fire at Messrs. Wood Brothers and Co.'s, and Mr. Frank Gardner's stores, Bolton-street, took place yesterday, at the Ship Inn, before F. J. Shaw, Esq.,…
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There has been another great fire at Chicago, which has destroyed sixty acres of buildings, and rendered several hunddrede of families homeless. Four…
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We take from the Newcastle Pilot of Tuesday the following portion of the proceedings it a meeting of the Newcastle Borough Council, held on Monday evening, having reference to the application of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Suez Mail Extracts. (from the Home News, August 7.) Destruction of the Liverpool Landing Stage by Fire
The most disastrous fire that has occurred in connection with the port of Liverpool throughout all the period of its history broke out on July 28, and resulted in the total destruction of the landing stage,…
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