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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
238 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 12
A TERRIBLE railway disaster has just been cabled from America as having occurred on the Wabash Railway. It s[?]ems that a train bound west…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush fires fire raging in the Cowra district…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Waimate, which is lying off Napier, loading for London, if on fire. An outbreak in No. 4 hold was discovered at 7.30 last night, and till 11 o'clock the crow, unaided, determinedly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A cable from New Zealand states that the fire on board the steamer Waimate was suppressed this morning after the seat of the conflagration had been definitely located…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Zealand steamer Waimate, which is loading for London, is on fire at Napier. The fire is eating the lower deck,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a serious fire, which was responsible for the destruction of several thousand pounds worth of property and poods, broke out in the Westralia block, Kamballie,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FIRE broke out in a large stack of straw on the Market Wharf this morning, threatening serious results. The brigades worked hard for over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon a serious fire, which was responsible for the destruction of several thousand pounds worth of property and goods, broke out in the Westralia block, Kamballie…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At the Water Police Court, Sydney, last week, George Bottrell (27), a blind musician, wag charged with having, on November 8 last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fire brigades had up to midnight on Tuesday twenty-three calls within 24 hours. Miles of orchards were swept by the flames, in all directions. A public school and several buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The standard dishes at Christmas were, in old days, the boar's head and peacock, each of which was served up with every circumstance of pompous ceremony…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Wednesday Tamworth was the scene of much excitement owing to a fire whereby two lives were lost, and a cottage destroyed. A Mrs Lamey,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SPEAKING of the destruction caused by bush fires the Mudgee Western Fo[?]t has a paragraph, as follows:—"The high winds of Tuesday were conducive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The extent of the damage at the Pyrmont fire has not yet been ascertained; the building was completely gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The city is enveloped in a haze of smoke as the result of bush fires ragging in many suburbs. Bush fires are also very bad along the Southern line. The surrounding hills at Mittagong are alight, while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE tragedy has occurred at the Day Dawn, resulting in the death of a man and bis five children, and the dementia of the unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Thursday a disastroues fire took place at the promises of Messrs Dillon, Burrows and Co, manufacturing confectioners, 261 Harris-street, Pyrimont…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News from the mountains to-day states that the disastrous bush fires continue…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after three o'clock this morning, a police constable on duty in Lower Pitt-street discovered a fire burning in the premises of Messrs. Mason Bros. Limited, general merchants and shipping agents…
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