Tuesday Night's Fire
SHORTLY before 12 o'clock on Tuesday night a fire was discovered among some shavings in Mr. H. C. Went's carpenter's shop, Lower Church-street. Fortunately it had not…
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Fires & bushfires, 1889
211 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 11
(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) Ship on Fire
LONDON, Tuesday.—The steamship Ionic, 3070 tons, of Liverpool, which was to have sailed for Wellington, New Zealand, via Hobart, took fire while in port at Liverpool…
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DURING the early hours of Christmas morning a serious fire broke out at the wharves of the Tasmanian S.N. Co., the Union S.N. Co., and the Clarence, Richmond, and Macleay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Melbourne, Friday. Alarm of Fire
A false alarm of fire was raised at the Alexandra Theatre last night. There was almost a stampede, when Mr. Dampier came to the front and allayed the alarm. Very…
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A TERRIBLE fire has occurred in a hotel at Arcata, California. Two men were burned alive, and several visitors at the hotel, both men and women, were injured in their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian News. New South Wales. House on Fire
A SLIGHT outbreak of fire occurred about 8 o'clock on Thursday evening at the residence of Mr. James Fletcher, M.P., South Head-road, Waverley. The window…
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An extensive fire took place near Donald on Friday through a man lighting a fire to boil a billy. The fire communicated with a crop, destroying the whole of it, and passed…
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The Government steam launch Ena, which was anchored in the harbour opposite Russell's wharf, was noticed to be on fire at midnight on Saturday. James Frazer, caretaker of the Victoria Theatre,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Fire Near Echuca
Claughton's wool-scouring works, situated on the Murray, near Echuca, were destroyed by fire on Thursday. The wool from the wrecked barge Wilcannia, which was being…
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AN interesting experiment was recently made with a contrivance by which alarms may be given in case of fire in any building in which the instrument is in use. This…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Colliery Fire-trier's Negligence
AT the Bolton Country Sessions, England, a collier fire-trier named William Speak, employed at the Anderton Hall Colliery, Blackrod, belonging to Messrs. Fisher and Co, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Correspondence the Ringing of Fire Bells. to the Editor
SIR,—Observing in the columns of your journal this morning a paragraph on annoyance caused to citizens through the unnecessary ringing of the fire bell after an alarm…
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