Fire in Queenscliff
A cottage caught fire at Queenscliff early this morning. A number of the Permanent Artillerymen, under the command of an officer, turned out, pulled…
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Fires & bushfires, 1886
185 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 10
Fire
The promises of Govan and Co., store keepers, of Urana, have been totally destroyed by fire. The loss is over £2000. Insured in the Commercial Union to the…
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AN inquest was commenced at Bourke on Thursday, 5th instant, as to the cause of the fire which occurred at O'Grady's Imperial Hotel on…
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ABOUT half-past 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon a large crowd was gathered on the St. Kilda-road, between the Domain-road and the Barracks, near…
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Shortly after nine o'clock yesterday evening a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. M'Intosh and Son's, ironmongers, Pitt-street; but the engines were…
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A large fire has occurred at Junee and several shops were destroyed…
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THE Honeysuckle Volunteer Fire Brigade's new steam engine is now lodged in the shed, and is a standing credit to the energy and activity of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on board the Whampoa
A fire occurred aboard the steamer Whampoa lying at the Sugar Co's wharf, Pyrmont. Much damage was done to the machinery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News Wallsend. Fire Brigade Movement
I DESIRE to again remind your numerous readers that the combined public meeting in connection with the formation of a fire brigade will be held this evening in the…
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A COMBINED public meeting of the inhabitants of Wallsend and Plattsburg took place on Friday evening in the Wallsend School of Arts Mr. R. P…
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A large fire occurred at Cooma. The Commercial Bank manager's residence and eight shops were destroyed…
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During the last passage of the Easby to Melbourne a fire broke out in the after hold near the mainmast, but it was soon got under without much damage…
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Latest news from Lithgow mine is that the water is now being thrown on the fire. The bratticing is up to within about a yard, and the coal fields examiner…
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THE christening and grand trial of the new steam-engine will take place to-day in the grounds of the hospital for the insane. A procession consisting of the Honeysuckle,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Honeysuckle Volunteer Fire Brigade. Christening and Trial of the New Engine at the Asyium Grounds
IN accordance with the published programme, the various fire brigades mustered at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon with their appliances, and formed into…
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DOUBTLESS we shall be termed hypercritical when we refer to the extraordinary absence of nearly the whole of the aldermen on Thursday at the christening of…
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A fire occurred at Botany yesterday, when four wooden cottages were destroyed. An old woman named Lucy Grimble was burnt to death…
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REGARDING a jubilee celebration of the fire brigades of Australia, at a meeting of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Association of Victoria, on Wednesday…
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While a little buy, named o'Keefe, was playing in front of the fire, his clothes caught, and he was seriously burnt all over the body. He was taken to the…
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AT about 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a four-roomed cottage at Wickham, close to the Lass o' Gowrie Hotel. Owing to the lateness of the hour, and the distance…
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