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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
250 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 13
OUR sympathies, and we are sure, those of our readers, are with the sufferers by the extensive bush fires in Victoria, of which Melbourne) newspapers have daily supplied the sad dotails…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The County Council has revolved, to strengthen the Fire Brigades by adding a hundred and twenty two men and seventy horses, and expending £200,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN official inspection of the areas divastated in many of the Victorian districts goes to show what fea[?] damage has been wrought by the flame…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heartrending accounts continue to arrive of the terrible destruction wrought by bush fires in Victoria. Numerous homesteads have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous fire occurred last night in a bonded warehouse in Pittsburg, Pennsylania. Two-thousand barrels of whisky, which were stored in the warehouse, exploded. The walls of the building…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BUSH fires continued to rage on Wednesday with great fierceness, particularly in the Huon district. At Sandfly and Franklin the flames are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Your house takes fire. What burns first ? The lightest and most inflammable stuff, of course—furniture, doors, shelves, floors, panelling, and other woodwork. If it is a stone or brick house the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire occurred to-day at the Corporation Yards, Kent-street, through a quantity of tar overheating. The outbreak was extinguished, but a quantity of fencing and about 800 gallons of tar were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News reached from the Philippines states that a disastrous fire has occurred at Manilla, the capital of the islands. During tho conflagration…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pursuant to announcement, the public meeting of the residents of the town and district, convened by the Mayor in accordance with the resolution of the Municipal Council, took place in the School of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN response to the advertisement, inserted by the Mayor convening a meeting in the School of Arts, for Monday night last, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following items regarding the Victorian bush fires are taken from last Thursday's Melbourne "Argus," At day break on Wednesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—Anyone reading the paragraph in your issue of yesterday under the above heading would naturally think (as a great many to my own. knowledge have thought) that the bag of hay in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday, at Lillydale, Walter Nicholls, aged 22, was assisting to quell bush fires, when a tree fell on him. He was killed instantaneously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE committee appointed in connection with the movement to raise funds for the relief of the sufferers by the Gippsland bush fires, met at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Rhoades, of Lever Brothers, Pitt-street, Sydney, who has just returned from a visit to Tasmania, during which he happened to be on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pursuant to announcement, the public meeting of the residents of the town and district, convened by the Mayor in accordance with the resolution of the Municipal Council, took place in the School of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A serious fire occurred to-day in a building at Southwark used as a store in connection with the Lyceum Theatre. Properties and scenery for the plays of Hamlet, Richard III., Macbeth, and Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tour house takes fire. What burns first? The lightest and most inflammable stuff, of course—furniture, doors, shelves, floors, panelling, nod other woodwork. If it is n stone or brick house the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The damage done by a fire at Warbreccan station, Doniliquin, yesterday ia estimated at [?]…
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