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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
270 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 14
The frenzy of passion which tempts a man to murder usually robs the deed of much of its terrors, for at that moment when madness prompts one human…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A FIRE broke oat at about 230 this coming in the premises of Mr T. H. Ingall, draper, Hunter-street, Newcastle. The flames were confined to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attention is drawn to the advertisement convening a meeting of intending members of the Singleton Fere Brigade. The idea is an excellent one, and as the towm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Rossland, a town in British Columbia, there has been destroyed by fire several blocks of buildings. The damage is estimated at £100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An immense fire has taken place in a large woolcombing factory at Tourcoing, a town seven and a half miles form Lille, in the Department of the Nord. Buildings covering 260 square meters were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early on Monday morning a serious conflagration occurred in Hunter-street East, in the largo two-storied brick premises occupied by Mr. T. H. Ingall, aa a drapery establishment. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Thirty-two hours fire totally destroyed Afium-Kara-Hissar, a city of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE fre which lasted 36 boars has totally destroyed the city of A fiamkeera Hisssar, in Asiatic Turkey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Monday at the Registrar-Gsneral's Office, Sydney, saries of test trials were made of Crown's patent deteetor and alarm, In the presence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A MEETING of the Singleton Fire Brigade was held on Tuesday evening last in the new room recently built by the Borough Coancil for the use of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire was discovered in a tobacconist's shop at Annandale about 4 o'clock this morning, and subsequently the police arrested the tenant, a man named Harold Jesse Shaw, and lodged him in the lockup…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Thursday afternoon Mr A. H. Prince, the representative of Messrs Hebblewhite and Co., of Sydney, gave a demonstration, of the merits of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquiry was opened to-day regarding the suspicious fire at Annandale yesterday. Harold Shaw was present in Custody. Constable Haven's evidence went to show that when he entered the shep there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AS will be perceived by advertisement in this issue an interesting experiment will take place at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Hunter and John streets intersection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FIRE was discovered at a tobacconist and hairdresser's shop, at the corner of Booth and View streets, Annandale, early this morning, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Twenty persons have perished by forest fire in Orogon, Washington, and hundreds are homeless. The damage amounts to many million dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN our last issue a telegram stated that a fire has been extinguished in the premises of a tobacconist's shop at Annandale and that a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The inquest attending the recent auspicious fire at Annandale was resumed this morning, Harold Shaw being present in custody. David Moses, fire loss adjuster, deposed that he valued the stock at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday afternoon last a number of persons, among whom were several prominess citizens, congregated at the intersection, of John and Hunter-streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirty-eight dead bodies have been found in the forest fires in Oregon and Washington. Many settlers are missing…
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