Extensive Fire at Bourke. £4000 DAMAGES
BOURKE, Tuesday.—Warren's Turf Club Hotel, and the adjoining shops have been destroyed by fire, and the damage is estimated at £4000. Mr. Warren was insured…
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Fires & bushfires, 1883
100 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 5
Disastrous Fire near Tomora
TEMORA, Thursday.—A haystack, some sheds and stables, a horse, and two valuable greyhounds, belonging to Mr. Thomas Saunderson, who live near Temora have been…
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Dr. Boyd's Private Lunatic Asylum, a fine old Queen Anne mansion, built by the first Duchess of Marlborough, at Southall, near Hanwell, has been destroyed by fire, and live of the inmates, including…
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LATE on Thursday night the watchman on duty near Messrs. Laing and Wylie's Steam Saw Mills Honeysuckle Point, discovered a fire, and was successful in preventing is conflagration that bade fair to have…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—During the voyage of the steamer Cheviot, which left Sydney for Melbourne on the 15th inst., a fire bloke out in one of the cabins. The…
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AUCKLAND, Saturday.—An extensive fire broke out in this city yesterday, on the premises of Messrs. Garrett Brothers, leather and grindery warehouse and boot…
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ORANGE, Thursday.—The stables and out houses of Messrs. Nelson Brothers, of Orange, have been destroyed by fire…
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The Assembly passed, in Committee the Fire Brigade Bill, and them third reading was made an order of the day for Wednesday next. The House adjourned at 11. o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Fire! Fire! Fire! (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—The above cry is to such frequent occurrence in our city and the losses consequent on the same so direful, and the difficulty in ninny rises of insurers procuring their just rights for which they…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—At a fire last night at the establishment of Mr. Rosward, builder, Sussex-street, the premises wore destroyed. They were uninsured…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A destructive fire has taken place at Woods' Point by which the Bank of Victoria and three stores were burnt…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The premises of Messrs. Wylie and Lochhead, at Glasgow, Warehousemen, have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £200,000…
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LONDON, Monday.—An extensive fire has taken place at Haggerstone, near London. A large timber yard has been burning three days, and twelve houses…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Forty-three Victorian brigades, consisting of 1200 men, arrived by special trains this morning to take part in the forthcoming competition…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—A frightful catastrophe has occurred at the Monkfield Colliery, Accrington, Lancashire, by which about fifty miners have died a horrible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAMS. Fire Brigades' Procession in Sydney. Exhibitions of Rowdyism
SYDNEY, Friday.—The torchlight procession of fire brigades, last night, was lover a quarter of a mile in length. The streets along the route were crowded with people,…
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BATHURST, Saturday.—A fire broke out yesterday in the premises of J. E. Hill, bootmaker, Lord's buildings. The family were away at the time at a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—An extensive fire occurred last night shortly before ten o'clock, extending from Pitt-street, near the Circular Quay, to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The insurances on the places injured by the late fire were as follows:—Dynon's stock and buildings, £12,000; Sum Kum, £1000…
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INVERELL, Wednesday.—A destructive fire occurred last night at Woods, Butler and Co.'s flour mills here. Great damage was done…
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