An Auckland Sensation. a Farmer Fires at a Lawyer. Auckland
A young farmer named Joseph Swann, residing at Raglan, created a sensation here yesterday afternoon. He entered the office of Mr. Hugh…
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Fires & bushfires, 1895
140 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 7
Fire at Tamworth. Destruction of a Creamery
The premises of Mr. Perciral's creamery and butter factory and refrigerating works, situated at the corner of Brisbane and Lower streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Hell-fire Dick.'
General Sir William Olpherts, V.C., is the possessor of a unique sobriquet. The manner in which he obtained it shows the kind of metal of which the fine old hero is made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Fire in Sydney. an Hotel Gutted
At 3 o'clock this morning a fire broke out at Warby'a Hotel, at the corner of King and Pitt streets, Sydney. The building was gutted, and several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Rat Causes an Electrical Fire
A SINGULAR accident occurred recently to the electric lighting system of Baltimore. The lights of a large portion of the city suddenly went out with no apparent cause, many…
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A serious fire broke out in the North Town, the Sponish and Moorish quarter of Gibralar, on Friday. It swept the narrow lanes of the poor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday Night
A BLOCK of buildings near the Jenolan Caves was destroyed by fire this morning. The keeper, Wilson and family, escaped in their nightdresses. Very little was saved,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fatal Fire
A house occupied by a Mrs. Hone, at Canterbury, was burned down last night, and two children, aged eighteen months and five years respectively,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Destructive Fire
A destructive fire, caused by an explosion in b warehouse, has occurred at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (U.S.) In Addition to the building in which the…
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The other night a fire broke out at a house in the Tillage of Coroue, occupied by a map named Baldey, his mother, and four of his children…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
Some bedclothes at a house in Little Brisbane-street caught fire on Saturday night, and May Cooney, a child 18 months old, was burned to death. Another infant was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire Brigade
REFERRING to that event of Friday evening last, when Glen Innes providentially escaped from what might have been a serious conflagration attended in all probability with…
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The damage caused by the fire at Tait and M'Diarmid's store, Mudgee, on Saturday night, amounted to £11,000. The premises which occupied a space of nearly half an acre were entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Mudgee. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
THE damage caused by the fire at Tait and M'Dairmid'e store, Mudgee, on Saturday night, amounted to £11,000. The premises which occupied the space of nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Fire at Parkes. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
AT the inquest on the fatal fire at Parkes, whereby Mrs. Quinn, aged 29, her sister Miss Lena Berry, aged 24, and Mrs. Quinn's five children were burned to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Fire. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane, Monday Night
THE recent fatal fire at King's cottages, Toowoombo, is proving more disastrous than, was at first anticipated. King was burnt to death at the time, the youngest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Fatai Fire [By Telegraph.] Brisbane, Monday Night
THE fourth death in connection with the late fire at Toowoomba occurred yesterday, when William King, the eldest boy, aged 10 years, succumbed to his injuries. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Recent Fire at Walcha. a Man Arrested on Buspicion. Exciting Chase. [By Telegraph] Walcha
Constable Stephens left here this morning to arrest's man inspected of burning down the house on Orundumbi Station recently,' The intra was found in…
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Lord Abe, whom the princess had ordered to go to China to get her the fire-robe, was very rich and much respected and had friends in all parti of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Walcha Fire. (By Telegraph.) Waichs
The verd [?]et of the jury in the fire inquiry here was that the place was burnt down, but there was not sufficient evidence to prove who…
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