City Mutual Fire Insurance Co
WE have received from Mr. G. Tully, agent in this district for the above Company, a very handsome almanac issued from their office in Sydney. The principal feature is a striking…
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Fires & bushfires, 1879
57 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3
Tremendous Fire at Hongkong. BRISBANE
A terrible fire occurred at Hongkong on Christmas night. It commenced at 11 o'clock, in Endicelt Lane, in a house occupied by Fisher, a European. It destroyed…
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A great fire has occurred at Greytown, in Wellington. The Government buildings and several private houses have been destroyed. The loss is estimated at £12,000…
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THE store of S. E. Edmonds, situated at Millfield, was discovered to be on fire at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and was burnt to the ground, none of the goods being…
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A FRIEND who witnessed the stampede at the St. Clair fire in St. Louis some time back, describes en amusing scene that occurred, in which the well…
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YESTERDAY morning, about 5 o'clock, some little alarm was occasioned by a mishap which occurred near the machine-room attached to this office. Some sparks from the flue of the…
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ON Saturday, about midday, whilst anxious enquiries were still being made as to whether the unfortunate man Oughten had been discovered, another messenger of further…
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 30. 1878. A despatch from Harrodsburg, Ky., says:—"At the village of Curdsville, in Mercer county, Mrs…
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WE acknowledge with pleasure the receipt from Superintendent Charles Bown of his annual report to the board of management for the year 1878. The report is well got up,…
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IT is our painful duty to have to record another disastrous confiagration,—one that promises, as we write, to be unprecedented as to the extent burned, and the damage done…
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SOME of the circumstances attending the extensive conflagration of Wednesday night deserve, in our opinion, to be fully commented upon. In the first…
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We are requested to state, as per advertisement, that Mr. M'Gregor, who was burnt out by the late fire, will continue carrying on his butchering business at No. 5 Stall in…
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THERE appears to be but little doubt entertained that the fire on Wednesday night, originated at the back of the premises of Messrt. Jordan, and McGregor; but…
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WE see by the report of the proceedings at the meeting of the Borough Council on Monday evening, that the present pitiful condition of this city in respect…
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WHAT might have ended in a disastrous conflagration took place yesterday in the yard adjoining the premises known as Apsley House, in King-street. A number of…
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Telegrams to the Melbourne [?]ge from Port Pirie, 1st April state :—"The barque Ganymede, lying at the Queen's Wharf, took fire in the lower hold, under the…
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OUR readers will recollect that, by the recent disastrous fire in Newcastle, the City Mutual Fire Insurance Company suffered very heavy losses,—being interested in no less than four…
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WE bog to remind our readers that Mr. Jordon, confectioner, whose premises were totally destroyed by the late fire, has taken the shop formerly occupied by Mrs. Langley,…
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MARGARET JENKINS, a girl 17 years of age, was charged, at the Haverfordwest police court, with concealing the birth of her illegitimate child on Monday…
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LIKE a Phoenix from the ashes, the confectionery store of Mr. H. E. Jordan, Hunter-street, has risen from the locale of the late disastrous fire, and new and spacious premises…
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