Fire at Morrison and Bearby's, Bullock Island
RESIDENTS in the city were, shortly after four o'clock yesterday morning, somewhat startled by hearing the report of two of the cannons from the Battery on Captain Allan's…
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Fires & bushfires, 1877
50 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3
Newcastle Fire Brigade
A MEETING of the Committee of the Newcastle Fire Brigade, was held last evening in the Council Chambers. Present: Aldermen S. Chapman, (in the chair). The Mayor,…
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KNOWING the warm interest the people of Newcastle take in the formation, discipline, and gallant appearance of their Fire Brigade, I send you a few items…
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THE late accident in Fullerton Cove has almost met with a counterpart near Walcha. The father of a child named Thomas Somes, two years and a half…
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A MEETING of the above was held last evening, in the Council Chambers. Present: Aldermen Chapman, Dart, and F. J. Shaw, Esq., J. P…
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THE report of the SUPERINTENDENT of the Sydney Fire Brigade, has just reached us, and we have scarcely ever perused a document of the kind, which is so…
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THE New York Times gives the following narrative of Miss Kate Claxton, the principal actress in the play that was being performed in the Brooklyn theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Ashtabula Horror. Love Tried by Fire—ten Seconds of Doubt an Age of Agony—a Farmer and His Wife Describe Their Sensations in the Falling Cars
IF every individual who went down with the ill-fated railroad train at Ashtabula, and lived through the experience were to write up his or her sensations…
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THERE is to be an inquiry into the fire at the Waverley boarding-house. Williamson, its owner, estimates his loss at £600, of which £400 was insured in…
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LAST evening (Wednesday) a committee meeting, in connection with the Newcastle Fire Brigade, was held in the Council Chambers, Wats-street, Present: Messrs…
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AT midnight, or between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning, a serious fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Mountcastle, hatter, of George-street, and burnt with such…
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A large fire occurred at Clunes, Victoria. last night, doing £6000 worth of damage…
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Mrs. Merritt, the lady who was most seriously injured in the fire at Mr. Mountcastle's hat shop, George-street, is progressing favourably…
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Mr. Mountcastle writes to the news- papers, inquiring why no inquest was held on the fire on his premises…
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A FIRE broke out between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning, in an old rookery at the lower end of Free Church-street, close to the river bank,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY. Monday, 6.30 p.m. Fire in George-street
A LARGE fire occurred in George-street, at four o'clock this morning, and destroyed Mr. Hanks' grocery establishment. The first floor of the adjoining premises…
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A practice meeting of the Newcastle Fire Brigade Committee was held last evening. There was a goods attendance of members. Owing to…
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A large fire occurred this afternoon, at Cook' River Road, which destroyed a large hay and corn store, and burned a horse to death…
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YESTERDAY the former master of the iron clipper ship Tevoitdale, of Glasgow (Captain Robert Jones), arrived at Bangor, and brought full details of the burning and abandonment…
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A MEETING of the above committee was head in the Council Chambers last evening. There were present: Alderman Chapman (Chairman), Dart, Rodgers, and Mr. F. J. Shaw…
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