Great Fire at Quebec—800 Houses Destroyed
ON the night of the 9th June (the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports) a terrible fire broke out in Quebec and raged with the utmost fury…
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Fires & bushfires, 1881
94 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 5
Sir Henry Parkes and the Fire Brigade
ON Saturday last the ceremony of christening a new fire engine, for the South Sydney Volunteer Fire Brigade, was performed in the presence of a large…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A fire occurred at 3.30 this morning at Townsville, in Flinders-street. The Townsville Hotel, Allen's produce store, the…
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ON Friday afternoon last (says the Queanbeyan Age) a disastrous fire broke out on the homestead of Mr. Ellis Smith, an industrious young farmer residing at…
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SHORTLY before two o'clock this (Saturday) morning a disastrous fire broke out in the wooden tenement occupied as a drapery establishment by Mr. Richard…
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WHILST the serious conflagration elsewhere alluded to was at its highest, another fire broke out on the premises of Mr. F. Stanborough, Corlette-street,…
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ONCE more we have had to record an instance of a conflagration occurring in Hunter-street, which might have been considerably lessened in its effects had…
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THE fire briefly alluded to in our last issue as having broken out in Hunter-street at an early hour on Saturday morning assumed later on proportions…
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LONDON, August 29.—A great fire has occarred at Chicago. $1,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. The village of Concian was also half destroyed by fire…
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THE Goulburn Herald reports that on Wednesday morning last the home of a settler named Alfred Wright, near the Rockey Ponds Station, about eight miles…
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AMIDST the painful remembrance of the dastardly conduct of those who stood by and refused to render the least assistance in extinguishing the late fire, we have…
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ABOUT 1 o'clock yesterday morning another serious fire was fortunately averted in the premises known as McLaren's Boarding House, and…
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LONDON, Sept. 9.—Intelligence has been received from America to the effect that immense forest fires are burning in the State of Michigan, and…
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TORONTO, Sept. 14.—Terrible forest fires continue to occur daily in the vicinity of this city. Many of these are of great extent, and it is estimated that during the…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A destructive fire broke out on Friday night in Flinders street, Townsville, at Kemp's stationery shop, in consequence of the bursting of a…
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WE observe that tenders are being invited for pulling down the dangerous and unsightly brick ruins of the Steam Packet Hotel, at the junction of Hunter and…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A destructive fire took place last night on the premises occupied by Tullock and Co., wholesale grocers, of George-street, Haymarket…
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LONDON, September 26.—A destructive fire has occurred at Hayti, the township of Jeremie being nearly destroyed…
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ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS.—The annual meeting of proprietors was held at the chief offices of the Company, Liverpool (Eng.), on Friday, August 5th,…
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ABOUT 9 p.m. yesterday, another addition to the large score of conflagrations that have been so prevalent of late, took place. The night was "calm and fine," no wind…
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