A Fatal Boardinghouse Fire. Auckland
A fire occurred in a large boardinghouse at Wellington late last right. Twenty-five of the inmates were successful in making their escape from the windows, but…
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Covered Fire Plug. Capt Ryan Militant
The following letter from C[?] the Albury Fire Brigade, was r[?] meeting of the Albury Municipal [?] last night:—"In reply to your letter of…
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The Police have c[?] been convinced that the ass[?] were [?]ing in the neighborhood of Me[?] (Gold[?]) loadings. Police officers…
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It was one o'clock in the afternoon when the fact that the club wag on fire first became known to the besiegers. What actually set it alight will never be known…
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A sensational experience befel W. Burgess, of Warracknabeal, while he was stripping wheat. His horses became startled and bolted with the stripper. Burgess…
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The fusillade continued throughout the morning. Reinforcements of police arrived, and a body of 60 Scots Guardsmen was ordered to the scene, and opened…
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A terrible railway disaster has occurred in Western Russia. The tragedy was caused by the carelessness of a passenger. A train was at Grodue. on the main line…
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The siege by the police of the building occupied by the anarchists in Jubilee-street continues. A fire has broken out in the building…
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A lodging houses five storeys nigh, situated in the Chinese quarter of New York, was destroyed by fire last night. Six Chinese perished in the flames, and 100…
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Symond's pawnshop in Goulburn-street caught on fine this morning,ownig to the shop. The fire brigade extinuished…
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A disastrous fire occurred on Satunday in a sulphur mine at Tuoro, a village on the north shore of Lake Trasimeno, in the Italian province of Perugia. Seven miners…
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Owing to the great growth of grass and the quantity of dry feed throughout the district this year, the danger of bush fires is very great. Serious outbreaks have…
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At the meeting of the Executive Council to-day Mr.Walter Ed[?]nds, barrister at law was appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into certain matters in…
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A fire occurred on Yanga on Friday, but fortunately owing to its locality and the quick measures which were taken to cope with it, it was extinguished before…
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Mr A. A. Williams (coroner) conducted an inquiry on Friday into the circumstances surrounding the destruction by fire of weatherboard cottage off Ballandells street…
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A disastrous bush fire is raging through the country beyond the Mallee Chiffs Sta-tion, the recently acquired property of Messrs. Chaffey, Salmon, and Dunne, and…
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The Chamber of Commerce at Cincinatti was destroyed by fire last night. The collapse of the roof overwhelmed, the firemen, several of whom are either dead or…
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Referring to smoking, a farmer says.-The danger is not so much from the to-bacco as from the careless handling of matches." He went on to say there was…
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A bush fire broke out on Wednesday evening about 8 o'clock on the eastern boundary of Mulberrygong, about two miles from Mr Colston Cotton's Gum…
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A fire broke out in a weatherboard tenement in Jerilderie North early yesterday morning between one and two o'clock. The premises were…
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