Large Fire in New Zealand
A telegram from New Plymouth to the Auckland Evening Star stateB that on May 19th the largest fire which has taken place here for years occurred shortly after 1 o'clock…
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Fires & bushfires, 1885
43 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
Fatal Fire in London.—heroic Conduct of a Girl
The inhabitants of Union-street, Borough, were startled shortly after two o'clock on the morning of April 24 by a violent explosion. It was immediately afterwards discovered that…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Original Correspondence the Late Fire in Bulwer-street. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Allow me to point out to the authorities one or two defects in timea of fire. Being an eye-witness to the late fire, it struck me rery forcibly the immediate attention to thom…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Novel Mode of Extinguishing a Fire. (Iowa Cor. of Scientific American.)
We had what seeme to us rather a novel mode of extinguishing a fir. On Sunday morning, Feb. 10, the sexton of the Congregational church built a fire in the furnace,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Disastrous Fire at Brisbane. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Brisbane
One of the most disastrous fires which have occurred here for some years broke out this morning in the large warehouse known as Struan's Bonded Stores, Mary-street. The…
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A DISASTROUS fire broke out this morning in Messrs. Morehead's bond, known as the Struan Bond-building. It was a large warehouse, substantially built ot…
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A fire which, by reason of the comparative inaccessibility of the places it was imperative should be reached by the firemen, the fearful experience of a woman who narrowly escaped…
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An engine driver on an American railroad, in relating some adventures of his life, gave an account of the conflagration of an oil train which occured several years ago on the Buffalo, Corry, and Erie Railroad…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire in Haydo[?] (Murrurundi and Quirindi Times.)
At about a quarter to 8 o'clock on Saturday night we were disturbed by the cry of "Fire!" A building occupied by Mrs. Sampson, near the railway goods shed, was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Trial of Fire Extinguishers. From Friday's Herald
Yesterday afternoon a trial of the "Climax" fire extinguisher was made at No. 6, Bligh-street at the offices of Messrs. R. C. Guest and Co., the agents. The "extinguisher" is a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Board a Steam Tug in Sydney Harbour. (From the Herald.)
About half-past 9 o'clock on Saturday night, the steamtug Leveret, the property of Messrs. Moon Brothers, of Clontarf, was discovered to be on fire while lying alongside the floating jetty at the foot of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Murrurundi. [By Telegraph.] Murrurundi
Mr James Seilv's slaughtering and builing down works near Temple Court, Murrurundi, were envirely destroyed by fine this morning. The buildings are said to be insured for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Prosperous Fire Insurance Company. (From the Melbourne Argus.)
Perhaps there is no company in fire or other insurance, doing business in New South Wales that exhibits such steady and great development as the Australian Mutual Fire Society. It was founded on a basis which met with very little sympathy…
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A telegram in our last issue, recorded the destruction by fire, of Mr. James Seivl's extensive slaughtering establishment at Temple Court, Murrurundi. The local paper gives the following…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fire in George-street, Sydney. (From the S. M. Herald.)
A destructive fire broke out upon the premises occupied by Mr. John Joseph Ryan, draper and clothier, Nos. 760 and 762, George-street South, on Saturday evening. Shortly after 6 o'clock a rumour…
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Owing to the drought which has not long prevailed in Switzerland and Savoy, writes a correspondent, fires, some of them of an unusual character, have taken place in various parts of the country…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Fire on Board the Wairarapa
The Gisborne correspondent of the New Zealand Times gives the following full particulars of the fire on board the steamer Wairarapa on the 1st of November:-…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Railway Fire Extinguisher
The fire extinguisher which has recently been placed on the trains of some of the more important railway routes is a simple and efficient apparatus. A tank holding two barrels of water is placed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A Bush Fire. (Pastoral Times.)
A bush fire of exceptional fierceness has been raging on Barooga run since Saturday, extending from the west to the east boundary of the run, and destroying many thousands of acres of grass, besides…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Werris Creek. (From the murrurundi Times.)
A terrible and disastrous fire occurred here on Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock, when Mr. John Gurd's residence and butcher's shop was burnt to the ground. The most lamentable circumstance in…
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