Big Fire
BRISBANE, Monday.—A large fire has occurred at St. George, Queensland. Lieman and Benjamin's store and colonade were destroyed. The total loss was £6500…
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A large fire has occurred at St. George, Queensland. Lieman and Benjamin's store and colonade were destroyed. The total loss was £6500…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DUNEDIN, Monday.—A fire has occurred at Hatton, King, and Co.'s stores, Dunedin. The damage is estimated at £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HOBART (Tasmania), Wednesday.—The Union Hotel, Hobart, has been destroyed by fire. During the conflagration the entire horse Merriman and another horse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A fire occurred at St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Melbourne, when the whole of the valuable contents and fittings and the library were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MORUYA, Thursday.—Severe bush fires have occurred at Moruya, whereby three lines of telegraph have been burnt down…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday.—News has been received that the soldiers of the Republic of Hayti have fired upon the British flag…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, Wednesday.—Two large worsted factories at Roubaix have been destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I would ask your attention to the above subject. I would have written before had I not felt fully confident that the improvement committee would have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Saturday.—A destructive fire occurred last night at Brussels, resulting in the total destruction of the Parliament buildings, in which both Chambers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Sunday.—The Grand Square at Alexandria, rebuilt since the late bombardment, has been again destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A destructive fire has taken place at the dockyard at Lisbon, when one Portugese man-of-war was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →STROUD, Friday.—Destructive bush fires have occurred at Stroud, where five homesteads, with barns and outhouses were destroyed, the occupants barely escaping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire occurred at Woodward's coach factory last night, but was extinguished after some slight damage had been done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday.—A fire occurred here yesterday, by which eight houses were burned down. The damage done is valued at £5000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A disastrous fire occurred at an early hour this morning on the works of the Vale of Clwydd Coalmining and Copper-smelting Company. About 10 minutes after midnight a light was observed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday.—Intelligence is to hand of a disastrous fire, involving considerable loss of life, which occurred at Malata(?). A Jewish school caught fire, and the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LAUNCESTON (Tasmania), Thursday.—Mr. Alexander Evans' Soap and Candle, Factory, at Launceston, has been destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT ten minutes to two o'clock yesterday afternoon an alarm of fire was given at Wood Brothers' Castlemaine Brewery, near Honeysuckle Point. Crowds of horsemen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COOKTOWN, Saturday.—Last night, about 10 o'clock, a fire broke out on the promises of Clunn and Sons, timber merchants, when about 30,000 feet of dry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LITHGOW, Saturday.—The operations for remedying the damage done by the late fire at the Vale of Clwydd mine are so far advanced that work was resumed this…
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