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15 stories in Illawarra's papers
A most distressing calamity occurred to the emigrant ship Cospatrick, which left London on the 14th September, bound for Anckland, under the command of Captain Elmslie, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few days ago the greatest excitement prevailed throughout Dover in consequence of the presence in the bay of a three-masted ship with flames issuing from her stern. She proved to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT will be some time before the damage from bush fires by the extreme heat last week can be oven approximately estimated. Enormous arrears of pastoral and forest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We copy the following telegrams from Evening News:— Young, Sunday, 3 There is a tremendous fire raging here…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The subjoined notice by A. W. Burnage appears in the Newcastle Chronicle. The many cases of total destruction of ships by fire which have occurred during the last few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Sunday, at about 2 o'clock in the day, smoke was seen to issue from the promises at the back of Hopkins and Gate's drapery store. An alarm of fire was immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New York, April 29,—A Milwaukee special says the fire at Oshkosh yesterday was the most destructive one that over occurred there, one square mile of houses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Theatre Royal, at Leeds, has been totally destroyed the Church of St. Mildred, at Lee, in Kent, has been reduced to a wreck; the Government telegraph stores…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to [?]avertisement a meeting of subscribers to the Wollongong Fire Brigade (of the days of yore) was held at the Council Chamber on Wednesday evening last. Those who attended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The adjourned meeting in connection with the resuscitated Fire Brigade was hold in the Council Chamber, on Wednesday evening last. There was a fair attendance, the Mayor (Mr. G. Osborne)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAST night, a about half-past 11 o'clock, a fire broke out at 168, Lower George-street, on the premises of Messrs. Lane Chester and Co. Mr. Chester, who had been at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The great oil conflagration at Negley's Run, some six miles above this city, which commenced yesterday afternoon, continued through the night, and not till this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In request was held at the public school [?] Gerringong, before the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The lengthy title of this little volume describes it contents with sufficient exactness, but the reader who imagines that this is a mere professional treatise will scarcely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SAN FRANCISCO, October 26.—Great fire in Virginia City, Nev. Everything north of Taylor-street is burned. Tae branch Bank of California, the Virginia and Trnckee…
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