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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
64 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
Shortly before 11 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out at Mrs. Chapman's Hunter River Inn, Morpeth, and was attended with much destruction. The house is situated in Swan-street, next Mr. D…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wotonga (s.) returned to Sydney yesterday evening, and on arriving at the A. S. N. Co's. wharf [?]as inspected by a large number of persons, anxious see the result of the fire which took place on board…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An inquiry was held at the courthouse, Morpeth, on Saturday morning, before Mr. T. W. Pearse, coroner, and a jury of twelve, as to the origin of the fire which occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fire which broke out on board the ship Amyone at the Sandridge railway pier, shortly before one o'clock yesterday morning, continued to smoulder all yesterday forenoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About 4.45 a.m. on Saturday morning a Miss Wilson, residing at Scowen's Post Office Cafe, in George-street, was awakened by the smell of fire. She at once got up, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About 7 p.m. yesterday (Wednesday evening) the fire bell rang, and almost immediately Hunter-street was brilliantly illuminated by what turned out to be a fire that had broken…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →We do not know if the invention is really as good as it appears, but Australian fire brigades will find in the Scientific American of July 12, a notice of a contrivance that is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At about a quarter to 12 o'clock last night the look-out man at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade station in Little Collins-street, observed sigas of a fire in the direction of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire more terrible than any that has ever previously occurred in Dunedin, and possibly in New Zealand, broke out early on the morning of September 8 in a block of buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →About half-past twelve o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke our on the premises occupied by Mr. Alexander Munro, 477, George-street, and used b[?] him as a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →William Waters, the proprietor of the Octagon Cafe Chantant, at Dunedin, was arrested by the police on the 11th instant, charged with wilfully setting fire to a building in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at West Maitland on Monday morning, about 8 o'clock, in High-street, nearly opposite the telegraph office, and by which four…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Tuesday forenoon an inquiry was held at the West Maitland Court-house, before the Coroner and a jury of twelve, into the origin of the fire which occurred in High-street, early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grafton, Monday.—A fire of some magnitude broke out yesterday morning about 2 o'clock, on the premises of S. Watson, storekeeper. At present the affair is shrouded in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pittsburg, Penn., Aug. 16.—To understand the extent of the fire at Parker, Penn., which for two days has been consuming thousands of dollars worth of oil, and has threatened the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trial, of Waters for the murder of Robert Wilson at the Octagon took place on October 14. The witnesses examined gave substantially the same evidence as they gave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AFTER balancing herself on the windowsill of a fourth-storey window and betting it is on the Fifth Avenue or the Bowery, or somewhere, 'so now,' she suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An extensive conflagration, which has destroyed about £10,000 worth of goods and property, and for a loug time threatened to consume the adjoining properties, broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out on the afternoon of Friday, August 8, in the Latin quarter of Serajevo, Bosnia. The fire was caused by an explosion. At the time of its breaking out…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →One of the most beautiful exhibits within the walls of the Garden Palace is a seniptured fire-place in the German Court. It is by Sohleicher, and of grey marble. The…
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