A Disastrous Bush Fire
One of the most terrible bush fires which have occurred in this district for years past was raging in the neighbourhood of Bung Bong on Sunday morning. It would…
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10 stories in Illawarra's papers
Fire Extinction
AN experiment having for its object the instantaneous extinction of a fire without the aid of an engine was tried last week on a vacant piece of land adjoining the Savoy…
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NAPLES (says the Herald's Rome Correspondent) is just now (December 4th) the scene of a fearful conflagration—the burning of the tobacco manufactory—which throws more…
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Pottsville, Pa., Oct. 24.—The failure of all the attempts to extinguish the fire which has keen raging in the Keeley Run colliery for several weeks, it is feared, will add another…
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SIR,—Allow me to ask through your columns how the Wollongong Fire Engine matter now stands. Has the Council got the engine in proper working order for use at a moment's notice, of…
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SIR,—As a townsman, allow me to ask through your columns if any porson now knows what has become of the Wollongong Fire Engine who has charge of it, is it fit for use in case of being…
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Nice, March 24.—A terrible catastrophe at the Theatre Municipal Italien last night has transformed Nice from a scene of gaiety and pleasure to one of mourning…
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Intelligence of a terrible and disastrous conflagration has been received. The fire occurred in St. John, one of the suburbs of the city of Quebec, in Canada, and resulted…
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A dispatch from Montreal of 15th May says:—This morning between 12 and 1 o'clock, people living in Griffintown were startled from their slumbers by a cry of…
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A TELEGRAM from Dublin to the San Francisco Chronicle, dated 17th November gives the following particulars regarding the explosion on the steamer Solway (not…
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