Ship on Fire. Coal Vessel Destroyed
The ship Buckhurst,from Newcastle to Panama with coal, took I[?] and was abandoned in mid [?] The captain and portion 'of the crew…
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Fires & bushfires, 1897
112 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 6
Auckland. Big Fire
The premises of Messrs. Hayman and Co., general merchants, Dunedin, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The insurances amount to $27,000. The damage is…
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THOSE who fear that scientific advance is killing all romance should turn to America to have their fears put at rest. A fire that cannot be put out by mortal means until it has consumed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Fire Brigade Sports. Newcastle, Monday, 6.17
At the Fire Brigade competitions to-day Glen Innes was a good fourth, beating 23 teams in the Eight-men Engine Drill. The work done by the Brigade was admitted by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train on Fire. Sydney, Thursday Afternoon
A CARRIAGE attached to the Western excursion train from Sydney caught fire yesterday when near Bathurst, but was extinguished before much damage was done…
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Mr. George Smith reports that he has now raised between 60 and 70 tons of stone from the Camp Fire reef to be sent to Niangala to be…
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THE appalling calamnity in Paris, where so many women met an awful death, is causing municipal officials all over the world to look to the safety of…
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A PECULIAR ease of lire on shipboard was that which damaged the barque Annie Stafford at Dieppe, France, recently, the facts in the case having been learned at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Dungog. Sydney, Monday Night
THE School of Arts and Hutchinson's bakery at Dungog were totally destroyed by fire this morning, the damage being estimated at £800, both places being…
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A NEW YORK telegram dated 9ih May says:—The Mallory line steamer Leonia, which left her pier on Saturday,…
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CONSIDERABLE damage was done last night by a fire at the Adelaide Bond, Smith's wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Sydney. the 'Australian Star' Office Destroyed. Friday Morning
The Australian Star office was destroyed by fire early this morning. Later. At 4.30 this morning the watchman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →His First Time-under Fire
De Starr: 'It was my first engagement. The roar from the front was horribly new to me. Our assailants, who outnumbered us twenty to one, were yelling like fiends, and…
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AN outbreak of lire occurred at Charleville yesterday, which resulted in the destruction of a large store and the Telegraph Hotel…
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The President, of the Bazaar Committee has been fined £20 in connection with the recent terrible fire at the Roman Catholic Bazaar in Paris, and two employees fined and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Paris Fire. [By Cable.] London
BARON MACKAN, director of the recent charity fete in Paris, has been fined 500 francs, and two employees have also been fined and sentenced to a term of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Paris Bazaar Fire
The criminal proceedings instituted against Baron Mackan, the president of the bazaar committee, and two employees who were engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dream that Came True. Told by the Camp Fire
It was in a camp on the Wayland Creek, New South Wales, that I heard the following story. The evening meal was over, the men were yarning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →When Tour Dress Catches Fire. What a Woman Should Do
DEALING with the contingency of dress catching fire, some years ago Professor John Marshall wrote:—A girl or woman who meets with this accident should…
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A crushing of 42 tons from the Camp Fire Reef has just been completed at Webster's battery, Swamp Oak, for a yield of 47ozs smelted…
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