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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
239 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 12
The malting house at Toohey's brewery at 1 o'clock thin afternoon was the scene of one of the most destructive fires that has occurred in Sydney for a very long time. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THREE prominent townsmen of Gilgandra, on the Castler[?], have been arrested in connection with a fire that took place at Jenkins Hotel on July…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A shop and [?] at Kurri Kurri, occupied by Lionel Gold met was totally destroyed by fire last night. The buildings were insured in the M[?]le Fire Office for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A disastrous fire is reported from Buda Pesth, Hungary. The fancy poods establishment of a firm of the name of Goldsberg caught and was completely destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →J. JINKING, hotel proprietor, Mrs Jinkins, and J. Cowell, book-keeper, were to-day committed for trial at Gilgandra, for setting fire to an hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Limehiouse Basin, West India Docks, has been destroyed by fire, and £50,000 worth of walnut, leak, and mahogany consumed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A stir was caused in the vicinity of Lime-street wharves this morning by a report to the effect that the big new liner Kyarra was alight. Thousands of people flocked to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred at Capetown yesterday, destroying the premises of Mercer and Skongen, nan der Byl, importers, and wiener and Co., Limited, shipping agents. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 900 houses, including seven mosques and a synagogue, have been destroyed by fire at Travnik, in Bosnia. Several fatalities occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The premises occupied by Mercer and von der Byl, and also by Wiener and Co., in Capetown, have been deatroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RUSSIAN advices state that serious differences have arisen between the Shah and the head of the Shia sect, in Persia. It is stated that the latter has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A factory at Marseilles. where the plague originated has been totally destroyed by fire, the result of an accident…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A stir was caused in the vicinity of lim[?] street wharves this morning by a report [?] the effect that the big new liner Kvarra was alight. Thousands of people flocked to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A great fire has occurred at the town of Travnik, Bosnia. Six hundred houses, seven mosques, and one synagogue have been destroyed. Several fatalities are reported…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Last night three dwelling places in the Chinese quarter, near the junction of Abbott and Park streets, were destroyed by fire. The fire broke out about 7 o'clock, and the first place to catch alight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday night a fire broke out on board the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Pilbarra, lying in the Yarra the steamer was taking in cargo,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The temptation to stoop when under fire is almost irresistible," said a veteran. talking over the recent hot work in the Philippines, "and that accounts" for so many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nobel Rothschild's reservoirs at Baku, containing ten million poods of oil (a pood is 401bs.) is allare, as also is a fountain of oil spouting a million poods daily…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An explosion occurred this morning on premises occupied by Madison and Ewing as an explosives factory at Camperdown. The roof was blown clean off, and turned clean over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →High on the ridge where the marines pitched their tents on the shore of Guanlanamo Bay (says the Chicago "Evening Post") the first Cuban soil taken by…
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