Shipping Disasters. the Barque Salween on Fire
THE Salween, barque, 601 tons, in command of Captain Stout, and belonging to Messrs. Thompson and Aikendon of Glasgow, arrived at this port yesterday, with…
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15 stories in Illawarra's papers
Destructive Fire in George Street
A FIRE of a very alarming character broke out yesterday afternoon in the stores of Mr. J. B. Holdsworth, ironmonger, situated at the rear of his shop in…
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THREE determined attempts were made late on the night of December 14, or early the following morning, to set fire to premises in the metropolis by means of the…
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Shortly before 10 o'clock last night the shop in the occupation of Mr. Reynolds, hair-dresser, nearly opposite the Victoria Theatre, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire at Dunedin Dunedin, July 20
The most destructive fire which has every visited this city broke out on Friday night in the stables of the Commercial Hotel. The origin of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire at Au[?]kland.—Estimated loss £1[?],000. Several Persons Seriously Injured
We have to chronicle one of the most melancholy disasters that has ever taken place in our city A fire took place yesterday morning in one of the most populous neighbourboods of Auckland, and its re…
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WE have to chronicle one of the most melancholy disasters that has over taken place in our city. A fire took place yesterday morning in one of the most populous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dreadful Catastrophe in New York. Explosion of a Steam Fire Engine
At a few minutes past 9 o'clock on Thursday evening, June 18, the fire bells sounded an alarm of fire near the corner of Canal-street and the Bowery. Engine Ko. 9 was promptly on the…
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AT a few minutes past 9 o'clock on Thursday evening, June 18, the fire bells sounded an alarm of fire near the corner of Canal-street and the Bowery. Engine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fire at Boorhanpore. Seven Hundred Human Beings Perished in the Flames
A correspondent of the Nogpore Observer of June 10th, sends an account of the recent dreadful fire which has almost made a ruin of this once fine and populous town…
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BETWEEN four and five o'clock on Monday afternoon (September 14), a fire broke out in the promises occupied by a family named Harvey, opposite to St. John's Church, Soldier's-hill,…
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A fire, the most destructive that has been experienced upon the Type for several years, broke out in the Friar's Goose Chymical Works, Gateshead, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in New Zealand. Reported Horrible Treatment of the Wounded. the Maories Fire Into the Camp at Waihi. Mutiny of Von Tempsky's Men
The correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle writes:— Petea, September 11. I am still unable to famish further particulars…
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An Englishman and a German were travelling together in a diligence, and both smoking. The German did all in his power to draw his companion into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Great Fire in Devon Street. Taranaki — Twelve Houses Destroyed. About £7000 Worth of Property Burnt
ON Tuesday morning, the 24th instant, about 1.30 a.m., the inhabitants of this town were again aroused from their slumbers by the ominous toll of the fire-bell…
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