The Military Fire on the Rioters
The Rotterdam strikers tore up the pavement, and stoned the police. The Civil guard fired and charged the rioters, wounding several, A meeting of strikers was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1889
81 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 5
A Salvationist M.P. a Soldier Who Can Stand Fire
CONSIDERABLE surprise was manifested on Monday afternoon in the Assembly, when Mr Turner, the member for Gunnedah, entered the Chamber attired in a flaming scarlet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[From Gaeville's Telegram Co.] London, Monday Night. Destructive Fire
The tabernacle of the Rev Dr. De Witt Talmage, the Well-known American pulpit orator, at Boston, has been entirely destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large Fire at Marrickville. (Herald of yesterday.)
A disastrous fire occurred at Marrickville early on Saturday morning, when Messrs. Davenport and Sons' boot and shoe factory, on tbe Victoria-road, was almost gutted and the principal parts of…
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A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Little Collins-street, Melbourne, resulting in the partial destruction of W. A. Rocks and Co.'s furniture and bedding…
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SHORTLY after 10 o'clock on Friday night a fire broke out at Nandah Carriage Works. The alarm was raised by men employed in the works, who, living in the locality, were…
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This morning the shingle roofing of St. James' Parish Hall, Phillip-street, was found to be on fire, A good supply of water being obtainable the outbreak was held in check,…
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THE Conard steamer Gallia, from New York, arrived at Queenstown recently, and brought intelligence of the arrival at the former port from Liverpool of the…
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A GALVANISED iron store and underground cellar, used as a bond and occupied by Messrs. G. H. Doake and Co. merchants, at Wilcannia on Wednesday was totally…
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JERILDERIE, Monday.—Bush fires are raging at Berrigan. Messrs Springfield, Synet, Cruickshank, and several other selectors have been burnt out completely—fences,…
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IT fortunately happens that Singleton is rarely troubled with conflagrations. It is fortunate because there is no adequate supply of water to check any outbreak, and because…
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Inmates, at the first alarm, should endeavour calmly to reflect what means of escape there are in the house; if in bed at the time, wrap themselves in a blanket or bed side carpet;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Fire Brigade Board
On Thursday evening a meeting of the various representatives of the Fire Insurance Companies doing business in West Maitland was hold in the Council Chambers, for the purpose of electing a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Late Fire at Mr Robinson's. Inquiry Into the Cause
YESTERDAY Mr Edward Bowman, Coroner for the district of Muswellbrook, held an inquiry at the Caledonia Hotel into the cause of the fire which destroyed Mr A. C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I, "Be just and fear not." The Singleton Argus. Saturday, December 21St, 1889. The Fire Brigade
LAST Sunday morning's fire draws attention to the necessity of patting the local fire brigade on a more satisfactory footing than it now occupies. The men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. London, Sunday, Great Fire at Bradford
A disastrous fire has occurred at a woollen mill at Bradford, Yorkshire. The damage done is estimated at £209,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire at Tonga. the Armoury,magazine,and Government Stores Destroyed
NEWS from Tonga by the steamer Richmond reports that an extensive and destructive fire broke out on the morning of the 16th instant. It completely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Destructive Bush Fire. (Pastoral Times Dec. 21.)
A bush fire, which has destroyed more property than any that has previously occurred here broke out on Saturday afternoon on the Tuppal run. A strong north-west wind was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire in Sydney on Christmas Morning
We supplement from the Herald's report, the particulars received by wire and published by us on Thursday of the destructive fire in Sydney on the previous morning…
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DURING the early hours of Christmas morning a serious fire broke out at the whalves of the Tasmanian S.N. Co., the Union S.N, Co., and the. Clarence,…
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