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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
77 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 4
Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning the fire-bells peal[?]d forth an alarm, showing that another destructive fire had commenced its ravages in our city. The fire was found to have broken out o[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN alarm of fire was given this morning at 2 o'clock. The fire was discovered on the premises of Mr T. P. Lynch, grocer, Hunter- street, Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The statistical returns of the metropolitan fire brigades are ready remarkably early this year. From them we take the following abstract of the work done by the fire brigades of Sydney during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram to the Auckland Evening Star reports that on the morning of December 29 the most disastrous fire which has occurred at Wellington since the Opera House fire, broke out. The alarm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Buninyong, Tuesday.—At half-past four o'clock this afternoon, bush fires, principally from the south-west, caused the township to look quite Black Thursday like, the atmosphere being thick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Melbourne Age of Saturday has received the following further telegraphic particulars of the disastrous bush fires in the Otway forest, which resulted in the devastation of hundicds of miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The correspondent of the Pastoral Times, writing from Tocumwal on Friday, January 8, says:—The largest bush lire known to local residents broke out at Tongaboo on Monday. It is reported that a hut…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About 6 o'clock last evening an outbreak of fire was discovered at the Randwick tram sheds. A telegram was forwarded to the General Post Office and the alarm was sent from that place to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another fire, involving serious loss of, and damage to property, occurred in Hunter-street, Newcastle, early on Suuday morning. It originated in the upper floor of Messrs. Ingall and Co.'s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shortly before 10 o'clock on Saturday morning the inhabitants of the southern end of the metropolis were thrown into a state of great excitement on it becoming known that a large fire had broken out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At about 12.35 a.m. on Tuesday a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. Owen Denmeade, confectioner, Nos. 60 and 62, Harbour-street. An alarm was at once given to the Central Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A destructive fire broke out at half-past 2 this morning, (says Saturday's Echo) at 201, Pitt-street, known as Harris and Ackman's building. The fire appears to have originated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquiry into the fire which occurred on December 31st in a cottage on Tolford-road, Waterloo, owned by a cabman named John Manning, was resumed on Friday at the local…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At four o'clock on Saturday morning the night watchman (Mr. Thomas Scriffin) saw smoke issuing from the well-known store belonging to Mr. P. Murray, situated at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About 11 o'clock last night a fire broke out in the tailoring establishment of Messrs. Gould and Lewis 346, Oxford-street, Paddington, and in a short time the building and its contents were all ablaze. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At a few minutes before midnight of Wednesday last, at a time when nearly everyone in Uralla had retired to rest, the most destructive fire that has ever occurred in this section took place, the building…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Sunday, night, Dee. 13, a fire broke out in Looe-street, Plymouth, and before the flames could be extinguished thirteen of the inmates, all of whom were in bed at the time, wore either suffocated or…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →AN intense feeling of gloom was experienced by the residents of Wallsend and Plattsburg on Sunday by the occurrence of a fire at the residence of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An extensive and disastrous fire occurred at Redfern on Saturday evening, resulting in the total destruction of a block of shed buildings belonging to Mr. H. J. Lyons, furniture dealer and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A FIRE which resulted in the loss of 13 lives, broke out soon after 1 o'clock on December 14, in Laos-street, Plymouth. Looo street is a very old and narrow…
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