TELEGRAMS. Disastrous Fire at Bourke
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A disastrous fire has occurred at Bourke. Messrs. Hinton and McKay's stores and an adjoining cottage, have been destroyed…
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Fires & bushfires, 1881
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Fire at Hay
HAY, Monday.—A great fire broke out at Hay yesterday morning, which totally destroyed the store and its contents of Mr. William Smith. The stock was…
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A FEW minutes before 2 o'clock on Saturday morning, says the Mount Alexander Mail, Victoria, Senior-constable. Nowlan and Constable Short…
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QUEANBEYAN, Tuesday.—Dodsworth's steam flour mill, rented by Mr. Samuel Brown from Mr. William Wire, and recently refitted, took fire about 7 o'clock…
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AN extensive programme of sports, of a peculiarly varied and attractive character, was advertised in another column to come off on Easter Monday, in aid of the…
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Mr. C. B. Rabeland, coroner for the district, hold an inquest as to the cause of the late five in Mr. George Hopkins store, on the night of Sunday, the 3rd inst…
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ABOUT noon on Saturday the premises of Messrs. Nightingale, photographers, of Hunter-street, narrowly escaped destruction by fire. It is supposed that a bottle…
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ABOUT half-past 7 last evening, the fire-bell rang out an alarm, and there was a general stampede down Hunter street, till. arrested at Mr. J. Kingston's drapery…
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ON Thursday evening a fire broke out in a cottage occupied by Mr. William Edwards, facing the railway line opposite the Castlemaine Brewery. It was…
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ON the evening of March 23, during the performance of Lucia Lammermoor at the Opera House, Nice, the gas at the back of the stage suddenly…
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The Criminal Court sat till past 10 o'clock last night. Mr. Bechet's trial was adjourned till to-day. The judge commenced summing up at…
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ABOUT noon yesterday, the Crystal Palace Hotel, Hunter-street, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire. From some cause unknown, the shingle roof became…
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ABOUT 10 o'clock last night the fire bell caused a large concourse of person to gather in Newcomen-street, opposite the house of Mrs. Welsh, who resides in one…
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ABOUT a quarter-past 12 yesterday morning an alarm of fire was raised, and the fire bells sounded the customary alarm. The danger turned out to be aboard the…
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THE London correspondent of the Adelaide Observer says: I believe that Australia, like every other part of the world where Scotchmen congregate,…
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A large fire has occurred at St. John's, Newfoundland. Twelve hundred houses were burnt, including the public buildings and churches…
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QUEDEC, June 9.—A disastrous fire broke out to-day, and spread with great rapidity, owing to the high wind which prevailed, and an enormous destruction of property…
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ABOUT twenty minutes past 8 on Saturday afternoon a serious fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Alderson and Sons, the well known tanners, Surry Hills, which…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—At an early hour this morning an extensive fire broke out in the premises of Feldheim, Jacobs, and Co., tobacco and cigar merchants, in…
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A TERRIBLE hailstorm passed over Paterson, N.J., shortly before 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. It was accompanied by a heavy rain, and lasted…
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