When Heart Fires Die
Calm evening skies; gray, edgeless clouds that f[?]ont Moveless and undefined, and give no hint Of far dawn's splendour, or the noon's gold…
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Fires & bushfires, 1886
77 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
The Fire-Extinguisher
Mr. Warner, a respectable and law-abiding citizen, rode home in an express waggon the other day, having a hand file extinguisher and the driver for company…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Destructive Fire at Randwick. (From the Herald.)
A disastrous fire occuried at Randwick last night on the premises of Messrs. James Service and Co., produce merchants. The flames were first noticed at 7.40 p.m. by the sexton of St. Jude's Church,…
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THE Grand Theatre at Derby was totally destroyed by fire an the night of May 8 just before the time at which a performance was to be given by Mr. Edward…
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The evidence given at the inquest on the victims of the recent fire in the West End of London disclosed a very lamentable state of things. Frederick Rees, the fireman who was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Another Fire in Newcastle. (Herald of yesterday.)
At twenty minutes to 9 o'clock on Sunday night the fire alarm bell rung out, and the usual three guns from Fortification Hill told that fire was again in our midst. The scene of the conflagration, this…
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ON Monday evening last a meeting of gentlemen was held at the Caledonia Hotel for the purpose of taking some decisive action towards establishing a Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boys' Column. Experiments Chemistry, Fireworks, &C. (As there is Some danger in Performing triks of this kind, they should be managed with extreme caution, and on no decount be attempted by very young and incperienced persons.) I.—to Obtain Fire From Water
Throw a small quantity of potassium on the surface of a little water in a basin. Immediately a rose-coloured flame will be produced. Any chemist will supply the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I, "Be just and fear not." The Singleton Argus. Saturday, July 24Th, 1886. The Singleton Volunteer Fire Brigade
AT the Council meeting on Wednesday evening last, a long discussion [?]ued with respect to a letter received from the hon. secretary to a body called "The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire Brigade. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
Sir,—I have to ask as a favour that you will kindly award me space in your next issue to reply on behalf of the Singleton Volunteer Fire Brigade to a letter appearing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suspected Incendiary Fire in New Zealand
The Auckland Correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports that shortly before 12 o'clock on the night of August 11, a fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Clark, watchmaker, Eden-terrace, a suburban…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fire at Mort's Dry Dock. (Echo of Thursday.)
The residents of Balmain were thrown into a state of excitement at an early hour this morning by the breaking out of a large fire at Mort's Dock and Engineering Company's Works. At half-past…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire in Sydney. (From Tuesday's Echo.)
Shortly before 8 o'clock yesterday evening an alarm of a fire which had broken out in Macquarie-place reached the Metropolitan Fire Station. The steam fire engine was immediately despatched, and…
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AN Emmaville contemporary reports the following remarkable occurrence: Last Saturday night week at Deepwater a fettler, named Pinto, and his family…
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The Warragal correspondent of the Melbourne Telegraph relates that the mystery surrounding a very serious case of incendiarism at Axe Creek, near Sandhurst, on the 21st January last, whereby two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Fire in Newcastle. (Newcastle Herald of yesterday.)
At twenty-five minutes before midnight the firebells rang out a chorus of alarm, and a minutelater the sound of guns from Allen's Hill announced that yet another conflagration was being added…
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A fire, which was not extinguished till late the following morning, broke out at a quarter-past eleven o'clock on the night of August 4, on the premises of the National Press Agency, Whitefriars…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Fire in Melbourne. (Argus, Sept. 14.)
A fire of serious extent was discovered at 122 Collins-street west shortly after 10 o'clock last night. Constable Grant and a private watchman named Cosgrave, discovered smoke issuing from the…
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A number of Colonial representatives visited the works of Messrs. Shand, Mason, & Co., the eminent fire-engine makers, the other day, the object being to witness a trial of two new patent steam fire…
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As long ago as we can remember, says the Haverhill Gazette, an imposing individual used to travel about New York State and Connecticut— mostly in the rural districts—violating sacred…
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