The Fire Brigade
It is the lone, the midnight hour, there reigns a silent deep; The gentle mother, on her couch, is wrapped in sweetest sleep;…
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Fires & bushfires, 1869
23 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
Destruction of St. Mary's Temporary Cathedral by Fire
Another heavy calamity has fallen upon the Roman Catholic community of Sydney, in the total destruction, by fire, of the spacious temporary cathedral of St. Mary's, with its varied…
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The result of the inquiry into the causes of the conflagration of St. Mary's has, so far as it has yet gone, tended but little to elucidate the subject. The evidence of the boy Patrick…
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Shortly after three o'clock this morning the inhabitants of Singleton were awakened from their slumbers by the ringing of the bell attached to the Wesleyan Church, followed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Thursday, Jan. 21, 1869. United Fire and Life Insurance Co
Mr. Alexander Campbell obtained the suspension of the Standing Orders, and presented a petition for leave to bring in a bill to alter the title of the United Fire and Life…
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Our readers, one and all, will regret to find by the perusal of a report of a late meeting of the members of the "Newcastle Fire Brigade," which appears in to-day's issue, that…
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On Monday night last, an inspection of the three engines, under the control of the Fire Brigade in this city, was made by Mr. Charles Brown, superintendent of the Sydney Fire…
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Shortly after nine o'clock yesterday evening an alarm of fire was given, flames having been seen issuing from the roof of one of a block of houses north of Messrs. M'Arthur's stores, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Diasastrous Fire at Auckland
Another very serious fire occurred on the 9th instant, in Wakefield-street, Auckland, resulting in the total destruction of no less than 8 houses, and unfortunately most of the…
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Another painful illustration of the perils of the deep, and of the dangers and disasters by which voyagers are sometimes overtaken, is furnished by the loss of the large clipper ship…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest from New Zealand. the Escort Massacre. Great Fire at Greymouth
By way of Melbourne we have fuller news from New Zealand, containing particulars of the dreadful massacre of nine men by the Hauhaus, and the destructive fire at Greymouth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fire Brigade Collectors. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
SIR—Will you be kind enough to allow me space, in your valuable journal, to answer a letter, which appeared on the 3rd instant, signed Subscriber." In the first place I beg to state…
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The fourteenth anniversary of the above Brigade was celebrated with the customary torchlight procession and dinner, on the evening of Wednesday last. The procession,…
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The following account of the burning of the Omar Pasha is contributed by a passenger to the Times :— The ship Omar Pasha, 1153 tons (belonging to…
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On, Tuesday evening, the 13th instant, a meeting of tho friends and supporters of this Brigade took place in the Galatea Hotel, Darby-street.-Alderman Rodgert in the chair…
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The suspension of Mackinlay, Brothers, and the disclosures which have resulted therefrom, have caused an unusual stir in commercial circles. Briefly stated, the affair stands thus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Plattsburgh. the Primitive Methodist Church, And,the Blue Bell, Public House, Burned to the Ground
About two o'clock, on tho morning of Tuesday last, the. ihabitants. ot the towns of Wallsend and Plattsburgh were aroused from their slumbers by the violent riuging of the…
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The New York Tribune of Friday May 28 gives the following account of a terrific fire at Hunter's Point. About three o'clock on Tuesday morning a fire broke out in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Fire at Wallsend. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle
Sir Will you kindly permit me through the medium of your valuable paper to contradict few glaring falsehoods concerning the attempt to burn the promises occupied by Mr. Fletcher of…
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Yesterday was a very windy, boisterous day, but about nightfall, the wind somewhat calmed, although it continued to blow "a prerty stiff breeze," as the sailors would say,…
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