Fire at The Look-out
WHILST Mr. Joseph Welch was driving a loaded train from Merimbula to Cooma and Jellamatong some time during the Christmas holidays, he encountered a bush fire at…
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Fires & bushfires, 1884
19 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers
Bush Fires
THE following information regarding the bush fires that have been raging around M[?]ruya within the past week, and the great destruction to property caused thereby, is…
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THIS morning about 1 o'clock a horribly fatal and disastrous fire occurred at the Commerical Hotel, leased by Mrs. M. Kearney, resulting in the…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—The eighth of the series of fires which have taken place in Adelaide and its eastern suburbs daring the past week broke out yesterday morning in…
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OWING to the wide " awakeness " of Mr. Richard Maloney, & fearful fire was averted on Sunday night. At 11 on that evening, he discovered a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cablegrams. Fire on S.S. LUSITANA Lambkin Wins the Leger. Cholera at Naples. 800 Cases; 300 Deaths. Death of Duggan, the Fenian. Horrible Scenes at Naples. Superstition of Italians. 600 Fresh Cases of Cholera. Chinese Blocking Woosung. War in Egypt. Mudir Routs El Mahdi. Cholera in Rome and Spain. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] London
A FIRE broke out in the receiving room of the steamer Lusilana while going through the Indian Ocean on her passage homewards. The fire burnt for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cablegrams. Visit of English Cricketers. Cholera at Naples. Three Hundred Deaths Daily. China Not Declared War. Foochow Forts Fire on British. Belgium School Bill Assented To. Bitter Feeling in Brussels. Military Reserves Called Out. Oriental Bank 10s. in the £. LONDON
THE team of English cricketers about to visit Australia comprises Shaw, Shrewsbury, Barnes, Flowers, Scotton, Attewell, Brigge, Maurice, Read…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cablegrams. SEIZURE of Chinese Coal Mines. Big Shipping Fire in Russia. LONDON
ADMIRAL COURBET has received instructions to seize the coal mines at Kelung, on the northern cost of the island of Formosa (called Tai-wan by the…
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SHORTLY before 11 o'clock on Friday night an extensive fire broke out on the business premises of Mr. Zollner, galvanised ironworks and general store, Darling Harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cablegrams. the War in China Kelung and Tonquin Attacked. General Wolseley's Recall. Fire in Denmark. Palace and Parliament Houses Burnt. Egyptian Debtors. London
ADMIRAL COURBET is now attacking Port Keelung, in the north of the island of Formosa. The Chinese garrison offered considerable resistance, but after a sharp…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams. Fire in Sydney. a Photographer Gutted. Suicide in Moore Park. Child Burnt to Death. Arthur Cavill, Vanman, Killed. R.C. Temperance Societies. Archbishop [?]oran's. Boy Drowned at North Shore. Betting for Melbourne Cup. Five Melbourne Larrikins. a Woman Assaulted. Small-Pox in Melbourne. Humble is Dead. Intercolonial News. SYDNEY
MR. KIDMAN'S grocery store at the corner of Market and George streets, Sydney, narrowly escaped from destruction by a fire on Saturday evening. A…
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A [?] broke out on Monday evening, shortly belong 7 o'clock promises occupied by Messrs. Jones, Brooks, and Co., 89, C[?] who carry on business as [?] and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Telegrams. Man Drowned at Balmain. Woman Killed by Tram. Fire at Fox's, Manar. Woman Missing. Reforma[?] for Criminals. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] SYDNEY, Monday night
THE body of a man was found in the water near Balmain on Saturday, and was identified as that of a miner named Patrick McMahon, who only recently…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday,—Another terrible fire occurred at about 1 o'clock this morning involving the almost complete destruction of Messrs. Hudson Bros, railway carriage works…
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One of the most destructive fire which has over occurred an Sale broke out about 9 o'clock on Sunday [?] in the [?] the rear of Messrs. L. James and Co's premises in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Overland Telegraph Crooked. More Small-pox in Sydney. Dr. Barry, S.J., Nearly Well. New Guinea Governor's Screw Hawarra Immigrant Ship. Public School Teachers' Union. Civil Services Bill Farce. Messenger, Champion Sculler. An Australian Bicyclist Beats the World. Archbishop Moran, R.C. Home at Fairy Bower Skinner Hanged Himself. Big Fire at Adelaide. English Cricketers Indignant. Can't Scoop the Pool. Intercolonial News. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] SYDNEY
THE overland telegraph line has been interrupted beyond the Piako since Friday; consequently, there is no late English news…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Cablegrams. The Fire at Brooklyn. Fire at Windsor Railway. Informal Machine at work The Boers Arming. Germany Annexing New Guinea. Dr. Firech, Administrator. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] LONDON
IT has been discovered that seventy of the ninety children who have been missing since the fire at Brooklyn Orphanage are quite safe; the others are supposed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Telegrams. Parliament Further Prorogued. Kindergarten School Closed. Fatal Fire at Narrabri. Death of John Bowdel. Betting on Summer Cup. Rumored New Loan in Victoria. Disastrous Yacht Excursion. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] SYDNEY, Monday night
PARLIAMENT has been further prorogued until the 18th of February. The Kindergarten School has been finally closed, prior to which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams. Great Fire in Sydney. Casey Died of Small-Pox Beach and Clifford Rowing. Very Rev. Dr. Barry. S.I., Sick. Fatal Boat Accident. Two Lady Bathers Drowned. Cricket at Maryborough. the Annexation Craze. Intercolonial News. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] Sydney
A GREAT fire occurred on Saturday night at the Coffee Palace Hotel, which extends from George street to Pitt-street, near the Circular Quay, and the…
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