Local News. Fire from Lightning
The thunderstorm which passed over this district last Sunday night was heavier in some of the outlying districts than at Singleton. At Scott's Flat the lightning…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
250 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 13
Playing with Fire
Dr. Harold Davis looked around with ill-concealed impatience at the chattering, well dressed throng that filled Mrs. Norton's spacious rooms, and then he frowned slightly as if he…
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Maurice shuddered as he extended his hand toward La Rue St. Jacques. "The fire!" said he, "the fire." "Yes," said Louis, the fire. What…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Nyngan. Damage Estimated at £20,000
A Most disastrous fire occurred at Nyngan on Saturday, about . 9.30 o'clock. Roberts, store, quite a new brick building, was burnt clean out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War America and Spain a Spanish Troopship Seized Merchant Vessels Captured by the Spaniards. Americans Lose a Torpedo Boat. The Blockading Squadron Fired at. But the Americans did not Return the Fire. London
THE war line commenced batween Spain and America. The excitement throughout the Statesis intense. Business is suspended…
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The battery at Morro Castle, Havanna, opened fire on the American blockading ships. Ten shots were fired without damage. The American…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Nyngan. Damage Estimated at £20,000
A most disastrous fire occurred at Nyngan on Saturday, about 9.30 o'clock. Roberts' store, quite a new brick building, was burnt clean out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Cable News. a Great Fire in Glasgow
A disastrous fire has occurred in the business centre of Glasgow. Sixty firms suffered severe losses. The damage is estimated at £200,000. The Catholic Cathedral had a narrow escape. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Glasgow
A great fire has occurred in Glasgow (Scotland), causing damage to the extent of £200,000. Sixty firms are affected, the Roman Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire in Glasgow. LONDON
A disastrous fire has occurred in Glasgow by which damage has been done to the amount of some £200,000. About 60 different firms have suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, 3rd MAY, 1898. (Before Messrs G.F. Scott, P.M., and H. Robinson, J.p.) Carelessness with a Fire
T. Knox-Hill, Stock Inspector, charged John Lawless, a drover, with being careless with a fire on Stock Reserve No. 12, parish of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Spain Act America Another Great Naval Fight. A Desperte Engagement. Annihilation of the Spanish Fleet Manilla in Flames. Set on Fire by Petroleum Bombs Fort Cavite Razed to the Ground London
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Mitchell, the Governor of the Strait Settlement, has telegraphed to the British Government that after a two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gunnedah. a Destructive Fire
A disastrous fire occurred at Carroll yesterday afternoon, whereby a store and large hall, the property of John Flett, were completely destroyed. A stiff breeze was blowing at the time, and all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fatal Fire. an Old Woman's Painful Death. Sydney
A fire occurred in a house in Little Devonshire street yesternight. The outbreak was mainly confined to a bed, its bedcurtains, and a bed room occupied by Mary Farrell, aged seventy. Owing to…
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On Tuesday night last, a four-year-old daughter of Mr Samuel Brookor, of Johnstreet, was severely burned on one sido of the body. It seems the child was playing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fire. An Aged Inmate the Victim
SHORTLY before 9 o'clock on Wednesday night the fire brigade received a call and turned out promptly to a house in Little Devonshire-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burned to Death. a Child's Clothes Catch Fire
ON Friday a child named Elsie May Wegg, aged 4 years, who lived with her parents at Dwyer-street, Redfern, was burned in such a fearful manner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Gippsland Bush Fires
T[?] Mayor (Mr. E. C. Brecht) Las received the following letter from the Secretary to the Bush Fires Relief Fund in Melbourne, acknowledging…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales and the Gippsland Fires
Sir,—I notice in the Maitland Mercury of Monday, May 16th, your Muswellbrook representative says—"Muswellbrook has the distinction of being the only part of New South Wales from which aid…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Metropolitan Fire Brigade-
The Public Service Board have turned their attention to the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, and it is stated that they have already suspended one…
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