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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1899

197 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 10

Interesting to Fire Brigades

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 3

Justice owen sitting in the vice-[?] Course to-day gave his reserved judgment in the case of the Fire Brigades Board and others versus the Elderslie Steamship Company. The action arose…

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Fire Brigade's Claim. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 2

MR JUSTICE this morning delivered his reserved judgment in respect to the claim of salvage and service rendered by a fire brigade in…

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Fire Insurance

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 5 July 1899 · page 2

It is notified by advertisement in another part of this paper that Mr. T. H. Rixon has been appointed local agent for the Guardian Fire and Life…

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Fire Brigade

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 2

Steps are being taken, we understand, to bring the local Fire Brigade under the Fire Brigades Act, with the object of increasing the efficiency of the…

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Late Greta Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 5

In the Gazette issued this afternoon, a reward of £50 is offered for the apprehension or conviction of the person or persons who are supposed to…

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Destructive Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 3

An Electrical Exhibition at Remo, Sardinia, has seen burnt, and priceless relics destroyed…

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A Safe Fire Kindler

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 7

Kindling with kerosene, though almost universal when it comes to starting the kitchen fire on a winter's morning, is a dangerous operation as generally done. No farmer or his son—…

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A District Wiped Out by Fire

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 2

The resent great fire on Coney Island, a New York sea ide resort, wiped oat a district. Nearly 200 hotels, saloons, bathing pav[?] and other buildings were…

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The Peace Fiasco. England Between Three Fires. How Salisbury Holds Back Chamberlain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 4

The cry of Russia was peace when there was no peace. England and the United States were as anxious for a general peace upon international lines as His Majesty the Czar. Congress and the…

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A Destructive Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 3

In a fire in a grain elevator in Brooklyn a quarter of a million bushels of wheat were burnt…

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A Disastrous Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 3

As a result of a grant fire at High Wycombe fifty families have been rendered homeless…

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Destractive Fire in Now Youk. LONDOM

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 5

As a result of a destructive fire at a, Grain Elenator in. Brooklyn, NewYork, 230,000 bushels of wheat were burnt…

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A Steamer on Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 3

The steamer P[?]barra, engaged in the West Australian tra[?]e, s[?]ived in port early this morning on fire. The outbreak was discovered at a little after two o'clock among the general cargo consisting of chaff…

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Steamer on Fire. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1899 · page 2

THE steamer Pilbarra arrived from West Australia this morning on fire. The fire broke out at 2 o'clock off Wollongong. The batches were battened down. The fire…

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Great Fire in Hull. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 August 1899 · page 2

A great fire has taken place in Hull. A block of warehouses was burned down and £100,000 worth of grain destroyed…

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Modern Rifle Fire

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1899 · page 11

The Progres Militaire remarks that modern small-calibre bullets do not whistle like their predecessors, but give out a sound instead similar to that produced by the cracking of…

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Fire in a Shop Window

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 August 1899 · page 2

An alarm of fire was raised in Johnstreet last evening. It seems that a Kerosene lamp in the window of Mr G. Adler set fire to the issue paper used for…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. a Fire on a Ship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 August 1899 · page 3

A serious fire occurred this morning on the Island steamer Yssbel, as she lay in the slips at Mort's dock, Balmain. Owing to the fact that the Glebe Island Bridge had collapsed last week,…

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Fire at Kars Springs. Mr.w. Leard[?] Residence Destroyed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 August 1899 · page 3

ON Wednesday morning, word reached us that the residence of Mr. Wm. Leard, of Kars Springs[?] had been totally destroyed by fire. The particulars to hand are very…

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A Fire Extinguished

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1899 · page 3

At a little before 11 O'clock this morning a fire broke out in a large sample room on one of the upper floors of Vickery's Chambers, Pitt-street, occupied by a firm of jewellers. The fire appears…

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