Fire at Westbrook. (From a Correspondent.)
IT has fallen to the lot of your correspondent to record the particulars of a serious [?] through fire, that has befallen one of the residents of this locality-Mr. J. Grahame…
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Fires & bushfires, 1878
31 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Destructive Fire ia Sydney
Shortly after one o'clock on Friday morning, the fireman on duty at, the chief station in Bathurst street, noticed the reflection of a fire in the direction of Paddington, and at once…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire at Camperdown. £2000 Worth of Property Destroyed. (Evening News of Thursday.)
About five minutes after 3 o'clock this morning the Newtown and Camperdown fire-bells rang out an alarm of fire. On proceeding to the direction of the conflagation, it was perceived that Mr. Joseph Ross's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Important Cablegrams. Italian Ministry Resigned Count Andrassy's Repudiations. Reported Joint Action of England and France Re Egypt. Grecian Representation at Congress. War Inevitable If All Peace Conditions Not Submitted. Hungarian Subsidy of 60,000,000 Florins. Russians Advancing Towards Constantinople. Disastrous Fire—loss of Life. Sir Stafford Northcote and Russian Movements. Russians 12 Miles From Gallipoli. London. Wednesday, March 13
The Italian Ministry has resigned. Count Andrassy has repudiated the reported occupation scheme with reference to Bosnia and Herzegovina…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Proposed Fire Brigade. Public Meeting
A PUBLIC meeting convened by the Mayor was held on Friday night in the large hall of the Mechanics' Institute for the purpose of inaugurating a Fire Brigade in Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Manly Beach. Verdict of Arson (From Saturday's Echo.)
THE inquiry into the circumstances connected with the fire which broke out between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning of the 3rd instant, at the Clarendon Hotel, Manly,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Singleton Argus. "Sworn to No Master, of No Sect Am I." "Be Just, and Fear Not. Let All the Ends Thou Aim's at Be Thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's.' Saturday, April 20, 1878. The Proposed Fire Brigade
AN appeal is about to be made to the people of Singleton for subscriptions towards the raising of a fund which has for its object the establishment of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Board Ship
About ten minutes to 12 o'clock on Saturday (says the Newcastle Herald of yesterday), an alarm was raised that a vessel was on fire at the Government shoots. Several members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destructive Fire in Newcastle. Several Shops Burned Down. (Pilot of Friday.)
A destructive fire broke out about three o'clock yesterday morning, in a block of buildings at the intersection of Brown and Hunter streets. Nothing seems to be known of its origin, further than that it…
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About 2 o'olook yesterday morning a fire was discovered in a small two story frame house on on Stockton street, near Montgomery avenue. The Department was soon on the ground and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Household Siftings From the Kitchen Fire
"WE women grow old before our time," said a neighbour lately whose husband thinks a large dairy and no help a necessity in farm life. I thought of the cold and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Auatralian Mutual Fire Insurance Society
Sixth annual report, presented to the share holders at the annual general, meeting held in the old Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, Sydney, on Thursday, 13th June…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Lake Bathurst
About eleven o'clock on Saturday night (says the Goulburn Herald of Wednesday) as Mrs. Taylor wag about retiring to bed at the residence of her brother, Mr. John Cropper, at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Great Fire at Ipswich, Queensland
On Thursday morning last a destructive fire occurred in Brisbane-street, Ipswich. The Times of Saturday reports that the fire seems to have originated in the back portion of the shop…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Constantin[?]ple Fire
The Sublime Porte in ashes. Oaly the wings at either extremity remain. Of those wings, one lodged the Grand Vizierate, the other the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at East Maitland
Shortly before one o'clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out at the residence of the Rev. James Bonthorne, East Maitland. The flames were seen issuing from the back premises by Mr. O. C. Williams,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destruction of the Braidwood Convent by Fire
At about two o'clock on Friday afternoon, says the Braidwood Dispatch of Aug. 24, an alarm was given that the Convent of the Sacred Heart was on fire. This turned out to be too true, and from the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Alarming Outbreak of Fire
A RIER which threatened at one time the demolition of the Commercial Stores Murrurundi, and to and is a general con[?]tion broke out on Thursday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Danger of Fire Arising from Tarpaulins
Mr. T. Fogarty, of Lidney, sends us a letter for publication calling attention to the danger of fire being caused by tarpaulins used to cover farm produce. The letter is as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extensive Fire at Narandera.—Loss £15, 000.—Terrific Explosions
The Evening News' Narandera correspondent writes:—A most disastrous fire occurred here on the morning of the 20th instant, by which the whole of the main portien of the newly-erected…
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