The Fire at Waterloo
EARLY Monday morning Mr. James Johnson's wool-washing works on the Botany-road, between Peck's sugar works and Goodlet and Smith's…
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Fires & bushfires, 1880
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Destruction of a Town in Fiji by Fire
THE steamer Gunga arrived from Levuka early on Wednesday morning, having left that port on the 21st July. Captain Saunders reports that just…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The City Improvement Committee have ordered the walls at the scene of the late fires in George and Pitt Streets to be pulled…
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ABOUT 8 o'clock yesterday morning, an alarm of fire was made known by the ringing of the Newcastle fire-bell, the disaster is said to have been first discovered…
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WE notice that steps are being taken to wards the erection of still further buildings upon the site of the recent fire in Scott-street, near to the Market Wharf. It is…
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A NARROW escape of what might have proved a serious conflagration, took place on the premises of Mrs. Wilson, Kenrick-street, Junction, on the 9th instant. It…
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SHORTLY after midnight yesterday an alarm of fire was raised in the neighbourhood of Mr. Arnott's biscuit manufactory, Cook's Hill, the endangered premises…
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A FEW evenings ago, about 10.30 p.m., the promises occupied by Mr. W. A. Sparke as a butcher's shop, in Watt-street, underwent a narrow escape from destruction by…
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COPELAND NORTH, Wednesday.—A fire has occurred here, resulting in the destruction of a house occupied by MR. W. J.Harris, who had barely time to save his…
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YESTERDAY, exactly at noon, the fire-bell rang put, causing considerable alarm in the city. It was discovered that the cause for anxiety originated in an upper room of…
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LONDON, August 18.—The town of Eureka, Humboldt Bay, California, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire…
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LONDON, August 18.—A great fire has occurred at St. Petersburg. Twenty buildings were destroyed, and many others damaged…
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MR. M. H. STEPHEN, Q. C., and Mr. Simpson, instructed by Mr. Brennan, (agent for Mr. Nicholson), appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Darley, Q.C., and…
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LONDON, September 8.—The city of Sophia, in Bulgaria, has been partially destroyed by fire, caused by some disaffected persons in the city…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire broke out on Sunday morning, two doors from the Newcastle Morning Herald and Advocate agency office, at the back of the Theatre…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Theatre Royal, Sydney, had a narrow escape from burning on Saturday night. During the performance of "The Girls," a portion of the…
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THE Theatre Royal (says the S. M. Herald), on Saturday night, was the scene of a panic which, for a few moments, threatened to assume…
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ADELAIDE.—There is great excitement at Wallaroo and Moonta owing to the reported discovery of a vessel on fire in Spencer's Gulf. Flames are to be seen…
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IN another column will be found a few substantial statistics in connection with the above thriving association, the secretary to which, Mr. James S. Bray, is at present…
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A SPECIAL committee meeting of the Newcastle Fire Brigade was held at the Council Chambers, last evening, for the purpose of considering certain propositions…
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