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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
84 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 5
The exoitement in connection with the shearing difficulty in the Barcaldine and Clerment districts grows in intensity almost hour by hour, and at frequent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A large fire occurred at Dubbo this morning at the stores of Mr Cadell, painter. In the absence of any water supply, the fire burned out, consuming eight other premises…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The ground was strown thick with dead and wounded, and fleeing, in all directions were the squawa, stumbling under loads of children in their blankets,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday morning, at about balf-past 4 o'clock a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. C. Cadet, painter and glazier, who occupied one of the shops forming the terrace, the property of Mr. C. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE band of mounled unionists who caused sach a sensation at Wolfang yesterday have pitched their permanent cimp at about three miles from Logan Downs boundary, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When Reade Courtney recovered consciousness, quite a crowd stood around him—Ford and a physician among them. Courtney felt a strange giddiness and weakness,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Bull [?]ghte have been so many times described that I will spare the reader the details of this battle, writes a Mexican correspondent. Suffice it to may it was as cowardly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FIRE occurred at the County Court, in Cork, yesterday, during the progress of the trial of the persons charged with being concerned in the riotous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A TERRIBLE murder has been perpetrated near Nyngan within the last few days. From the particulars to hand (writes the Dubbo Dispatch) it appears…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smyth's furniture warehouse and the Dime Museum, Chicago, have been burnt to the ground. The damage is estimated at two million dollars,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Paris correspondent telegraphs:— A fire which in point of magnitude recalls the Prairie fires of America has laid waste between 2,000 and 3,000 acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A NUMBER of workmen in a town. in France attempted to rescue some of their comrades, who had been arrested for creating a disturbance during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. N. Brooks, District Coroner, opened an inquiry into the circumstances of the recent fire on the premises of Mrs. Bird, in the courthouse here on Saturday. The inquiry was to have begun at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Very destructive forest fires are now raging in the central portions of the State of Michigan, in the United States, and over 130 miles of country…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The great fires raging is the United States are still unquenched. At present 4000 acres of the woodland country in the State of Pennsylvania are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fiercest and most destructive fire that has occurred in Chicago since the great fire of 1871, which resulted in the destruction of the city, broke out on April 14, and swept…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →YESTERDAY morning about [?] o'clock it was discovered that a fire had originated at the Farmer's Association sale sheds. At the time mentioned, Mr Smith, Moore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous forest fires are raging in Canada, extending for 200 miles along both banks of the St. Lawrence River. Navigation on the river and traffic on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out in George-street on Thursday morning in the warehouse of Messrs. M'Lean Brothers and Rigg, Limited, importers, and resulted in the total loss of everything connected…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reade Courtney sat in his room at his hotel, with the ebony box containing the golden hair found at Irvine Grange, open before him. Ever since it had been in his possession he had…
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