Gippsland Bush Fires
Heartending accounts of the terrible bush fires in Gippsland continue to pour in from every direction. A telegram from Strezlecki Ranges…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
102 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 6
Tasmania. Bush Fires
The bush fires are causing enormous loss, and several persons are reported to have perished in the flames…
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Bush fires are still raging in Tasmania…
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The bush fires now raging in Victoria have reached a record of destruction unprecedented in the history of that…
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The Coroner went to Yarrowitch on Tuesday, and conducted an inquiry into the cause of the recent fire there. The following evidence was taken :…
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AN awful lynching affair, characterised by diabolical cruelty, is reported from Glend[?], Mississippi, says a New York dispatch, dated December 28. A negro, named Joe Hopkins…
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A serious fire broke out at Auckland, New Zealand, early this morning, when a handsome block of buildings in Queen-street, the centre of…
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A block of buildings in Queensstreet, Auckland,(N.Z), valued at £80,000 has been destroyed by fire…
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A sad burning accident, which was unfortunately attended with fatal results, occurred at Black Swamp, near Tenterfield, last week, when the…
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SIR,--There is a nice little game being worked, or rather an attempt is being made, to do a little underground engineering, and it is needless to say who is in the swim. When Alderman Healey,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Editor's Column. (While giving insertion to Correspondents Letters. we do not necessarily endorse their opinions.) The Fire Brigade Board
SIR,--In your issue of to day a leter appears signed, Fire Brigade.' I am at a loss to know why the writer should hide his identity under a nom-de-plume. He must be playing the part of…
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SIR,--Now that James Healey sees his letter in print, he must be pleased to know that be omitted to add 'Mayor' to his name, and in a sense I am pleased, also because it would hardly tend to…
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Following is a report of the evidence (abridged from the local paper) taken at the Uralle Police Court in the cuse of George B. M'Neil, charged…
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An extensive fire was discovered in the right hand district of the Dudley. mine last night. The search parti[?] were immediately withdrawn,[?]…
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Another disastrons fire occurred. at Goolgardie on Sunday morning, doing damage estimated at £5000. At 3 o'clock flames were observed…
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THE quickest horses in the world, writes F. S. Dellenbaugh in the St. Nicholas, in describing the training of horses in fire department service, were at one time in Kansas City, at the…
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Dr. Harold Davis looked around with ill-concealed impatience at the chattering, well, dressed throng that filled Mrs. Norton's spacious rooms, and then he frowned slightly as if be…
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A fire at Dixon's tobacco factory last night was extinguished by sprinklers, two of which burst. The damage is comparatively slight…
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The Spurgeon Tabernacle, Newington, London, was totally destroyed by fire last night…
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A very narrow escape from what might have proved a most disastrous fire occurred at Laurieton, at the residence of Mr. Jos. Laurie, J.P., about…
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