Great City Blaze. [?] Destruction in Sydney
The most disastrous outbreak of fire which has occurred in Sydney since the great conflagration in Pitt-street some years ago took place on Saturday…
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Fires & bushfires, 1898
102 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 6
Steamer on Fire
The New Zealand shipping company's steamer Tekoa, bound far Wellington, has arrived at Capetown on fire, only the cargo is damaged…
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The total insurances at the Redfern fire amount to £20,730…
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Last Saturday was a most unpleasant day, a violent wind blowing dust in all directions. The whole colony felt the effects of the wind. In Sydney a spark…
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A great fire has occurred at Longreach, Queensland, yesterday, afternoon. One side of a street, including two Hotels and twenty five buildings…
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The most remarkable cercmonical of fire worship that services in the world is practiced by the navajos Indians. In preparation for the festival, a [?] of dry wood is gattered…
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A fire it Dunedin partly destroyed Reid and Gray's agricultural works. The toss is about £20,000…
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The School of Arts at Charleville has been burned to the ground. The secretary, S. Wilson, perished in the flames…
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The Queen's Theatre, Childers, Queensland has been destroyed by fire…
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The damage, done by Horden's fire will amount to between £7000 and £8000…
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Shortly after 2.o'clock on Wednesday morning denae volumes of moke were observed to be issuing from the block of buildings et…
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Howarth's Tannery, Geelong has been destroyed by [?] the damage being £11,000…
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Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre at San Francisco has been destroyed by fire. Twenty lives were lost including a man who rescued four women…
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The Western mail train caught fire twenty seven miles from Bourke last night. It originated in a tarpaulin covering a truck of cheff. It spread…
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A MORE extraordinary custom than the fiery ordeal of Fiji has probably never been heard of. This mysterious fire-walking ceremony has been a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Clock That Lights the Fire
ONE of the most ingenious as well as useful contrivances ever invented is a clock with attachments that not only wake a person at night, but also strike a light in the room and kindle a fire…
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The Home Life Insurance Company's Offices in New York have been destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to £200,000…
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AN old band in the Glen limes district, who in his day has done a "power of droving" (to use his own phraseology) can tell some of the tallest stockwhip yarns that ever fell from the lips of man He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires at Forbes. the Frequency of Conflagrations
Fires hove been very frequent in the town of Forbes lately, On Monday n large stack of hay, the property of Hoses Brown, was destroyed…
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Mr. Grear, a commercial traveller, and Mr. George Blandford, for some years manager of Robert Gray and Sons, York-street, Sydney, both perished in the fire at the Royal Oak…
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