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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
50 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 3
Shortly after midnight this morning the sound of three guns fired from the Signal Hill, notified publicly the outbreak of a fire. The conflagration proved to have broken out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Newcastle Herald of Tuesday gives the following particulars with reference to the fire in that city:- The scene of the disastrous fire at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →By far the most destructive fire that has ever taken place in Wagga broke out at about 10 o'clock last night, in Fitzmaurice-street. The origin of the fire is as yet a mystery, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One of the greatest fires over known in Sydney broke out about ten minutes after 12 o'clock on Tuesday morning, at the Railway Station, Sydney. The damage has beens…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 3 o'clock this morning a fire broke out at Messrs. Jewell, Davis, and Co.'s fancy warehouse, York-street. The alarm was immediately conveyed to the Insurance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another extensive fire occurred near the Cottage Bridge, Wickham Road, early on Wednesday morning. Between 2 and 3 a.m., Mr. J. Woodcock, fruiterer and licensed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The occurrence of the great fire recently, in the large railway station works, Redfern, Sydney, by far the largest of all the railway stations in the colony, renders it desirable to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Some years ago the inhabitants of this town subscribed for [?] fire-bell, which was erected in Port Stephens-street, near the late Mr. Doherty's store, and placed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IF you should come upstairs some day and see a little smouldering fire just starting in one of your floors, stealing stealthily into the carpet, yon would not be very likely to sit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Between two and three o'clock on Tuesday morning a fire broke out in the bake-house at the premises of Mr. Thomas Bird, confectioner and cordial manufacturer, Robin-street, Morpeth, which resulted…
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