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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
33 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
A fire occurred on Wednesday morning between eight and nine o'clock in a house, No 63, in Shepherd-street, Darlington, near Shepherd's Paddocks, which would certainly have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A little after seven o'olock on Thursday morning information was given at Newcastle, by Mr. Cheater, shipping manager of the Co-operative Colliery, that a fire had broken out in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →People were startled this morning by a report that an hotel near the now Theatre Royal had been burned down, and the report was soon found to be substantially correct. About…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →One of the most destructive fires which has ever occurred in Glasgow broke out on the afternoon of the 12th November in a mill at Bridgeton, one of the eastern districts of the city. About two p.m. a portion of the machinery in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the evening of New Year's Day an extensive fire occurred at Braefield, on the premises of Hug[?] Hughes, a farmer of that district. The origin of the fire is not positively…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In our issue of Saturday last we stated that several large bash fires were burning around Wallsend. Since then we have been furnished with some particulars respecting the damage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →From our correspondent at Black Creek, and other sources, we have learned the following particulars of a melancholy conflagration, in which an unfortunate child aged eight years has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Sunday last, about midnight, the Dunmore mill, commonly known as Mr. John Mitchell's mill, standing on the bank of the [?] River, was destroyed by fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning the coroner, Mr. T. W Pearse, held an inquest at the Butchers Arms, Largs, before a jury of five, concering the destruction by fire of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Superintendent of the Volunteer Fire Brigade, Mr. C Cridland, has received the following letters, which we willingly publish at his request:…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →About 1.20 on Monday morning the city was alarmed by the ringing of the fire-bell at the engine house in Newcomen-street. At the first sound of the bell a reporter from this office went…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a little before twelve o'olook on Thursday night the whole of the town was thrown into a state of exeitement by the erics of " fire,' and the now well-known tones of the fire ball. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Monday night, at about a quarter to nine o'clock, a kerosene lamp exploded in the drapery compartment of the establishment of Mr. Hill, storekeeper, Wodenga. In a few minutes the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The town last night, at a quarter to 12 o'clock, was unusually quiet, and the hotels were about being closed, when a man calling out "Fire!" rushed bare-headed down Hunter-street, from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Considerable consternation was caused in Murrurundi on Saturday afternoon last by the occurrence of a fire which threatened the destruction of the court house and other buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A great fire occurred this morning in Flinders-street. The conflagration broke out in the top story of Messrs. Robert Harper and Co.'s Rice Mills, and afterwards spread to Flinders-street bonded stores,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →About a quarter to five o'clock on Friday morning a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. P. Falk and Co., wholesale jewellers and fancy goods importers, of Little Collins-street west. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sanders Lazarus's warehouse, in Elizabeth-street, [?]ook fire at one o'clock this afternoon, and broke out in an immense blaze. The conflagration commenced in the ground floor, and first, second and third stories…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Yesterday will be rendered memorable in the annals of the city of Melbourne by the fact that three very serious and destructive fires occurred, whereby property to the value of many thousands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Parkes moved the adoption of the report from the Committee of the Whole on the Fire Brigades Bill. Attention was called to the state of the…
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