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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
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A fire broke out on the steamer Volturno (Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd.) while on a voyage from Rotterdam to New York, and, as far as is known, out of 757…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An election to fill the vacancy on the Board of Commissioners, caused by the death of Alderman Kelly, M.L.A, was, held, on Saturday. The ballot resulted in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire broke out in Hurst's bakery, Quirindi, on Monday. When discovered the bakehouse was too far gone to be saved, although the local Salvage Corps, recently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mechanics' Institute at Manilla was destroyed by fire early on Saturday morning. The building was partly, of wood, the front being of brick. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government inspector, does not anticipate that any further men will be taken out of the Universal mine in Wales alive. Pathetic scenes were witnessed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire at the Universal Colliery at Sengennhydd, Wales, has now been mastered, and the ventilation of the mine has been improved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous fire broke out at 1 o'clock to-day, resulting in the complete destruction of Mrs. McMahon's Steam Packet Hotel in Victoria-street. Portion of the building…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about half past eight o'clock on Tuesday evening a fire broke out in a 4-roomed weatherboard house at Sawyer's Gully occupied by Nazem Deen, an Indian dealer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred on Tuesday evening at the New South Wales Broom Factory, Balmain, owing to the fusing of some electric wires. The inflammable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A disastrous fire broke out at 1 o'clock on Wednesday, resulting in the complete destruction of Mrs McMahon's Steam Packet Hotel in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Regarding the fire at Mrs. McMahon's Steam Packet Hotel, which was totally destroyed on Wedesday, the fire is supposed to have started in an upstair room on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two fires occurred in Sydney last week. The first call was to the large warehouse of Messrs. W. S. Friend anil Co., York-street, city, and came shortly after 8 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A fire broke out in Hurst's bakery, Quirindi, on Monday. When discovered the bakehouse was too far gone to be saved, although the local Salvage Corps, recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An amazing fifteen-fold crime is reported from the Saxon town of Muhlhausen and the village of Degerloch, where a schoolmaster named Wagner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire broke out on the Royal Dutch Company's West Indies steamer Jan Van Nassau during the outward trip from Amsterdam, and the coal in the bunkers ignited…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A disastrous fire broke out at 1 o'clock to-day, resulting in the complete destruction of Mrs. McMahon's Steam Packet Hotel in Victoria-street. Portion of the building…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Now York, Saturday.—A gas annealing plant in a six-storey factory exploded and killed four of the employees, and injured about 20 others. A fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All extensive fire occurred at Apia on the 17th instant, when the Central Hotel, the largest on the island. as well as two large stores, were, totally destroyed, while several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out on the steamer Sowell while on a voyage from Savannah to Havre, and the vessel had to steam at full speed for Halifax, where the local fire brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News has been received from Samoa of a fire at Apia on October 17. The Central Hotel, the largest in the island, was completely destroyed, as well as…
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