The Wallsend and Plattsburg Fire Brigade
THE members for the county have received a communication from the Colonial Secretary's Office with reference to a grant of money to the Wallsend and Plattsburg Fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1890
208 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 11
District News. Wallsend. Fire Brigade
From the official correspondence published in your columns this morning, it would appear as if the Wallsend and Plattsburg Fire Brigade were on the right road to obtaining a…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Toronto University, including the splendid museum and unique library, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at one and a half millon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Terrible Fire at Broken Hill. Death of Mrs. Cantlon. Four Victims in All. Broken Hill
MRS. CANTLON, who was severely injured by the fire which occurred on Sunday night, died to-day. Cantlon has thus lost his wife, three children, and everthing belonging to…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A large fire occurred this morning on the premises of Furier and Co., at Westminster. During the fire a wall fell, burying several of the firemen, two of…
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AN alarming fire occurred recently on the Wear at Sunderland, resulting in great damage to shipping and the death of one man. The steamer Wild Flower, which carries oil…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terrible Fire Near Warrnambool. Twenty Miles of Country Devastated. The Farmers and their Families Barely Escape with their Lives. MELBOURNE
A BUSH fire, only equalled by the memorable one in Heytesbury Forest, has raged near Warrnambool for the past two days, causing immense destruction of property, stock, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. Adelaide, Sunday. Extensive Fire
A large fancy shop, belonging to a man named Rowland, was utterly destroyed by fire last night. RAILWAY MEN'S STRIKE FEARED…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CABLEGRAMS. The Morfa Colliery Disaster. Colliery on Fire
LONDON, Tuesday.—Five more men have been get out of Morfa colliery, but, owing to the subsidence of the earth, the greatest difficulty is experienced in rescuing the…
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LONDON, March 21.—The fire which caused the ship Winifred to put into Bahia has been extinguished. A portion of her cargo will have to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria. Fire in Melbourne
A fire broke out on the premises of Bolton and Fulton, printers, Flinders-lane, on Friday, which destroyed the top storey. The Metropolitan Cement Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Maitland. Destructive Fire at West Maitland
A large hayshed, the property of Dr. Morson, was totally consumed by fire on Thursday morning. It appears an official at the High-street railway station, named…
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WHAT might have resulted in a serious conflagration, occurred at Kelso House early yesterday morning, about a quarter to 4 o'clock, a couple of policemen and a member…
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A portion of cargo of the Winifred, ship, from Wellington, which put into Bahia recently on fire, has now been discharged, and advices have been received that 4:6 bales wool and 393 bales flax…
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A BIG Newfoundland dog recently saved six lives in Alleghanny City. About 1 o'clock in the morning the dog awoke his master, Mr. F. D. King, by loud barking. Repeated…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Fire on the Schooner Victory
The particulars of the fire on the schooner Victory now to hand, show that the crew could neither tell how the fire originated or to whom the schooner belonged. Now and then cargoes of lime…
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LONDON, Friday.—By a disastrous fire which broke out in the mansion at Waddesdon, the residence of Baron Ferdinand James de Rothschild, several of the precious works…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland. Fire at East Maitland
At a late hour on Thursday night a fire broke out in a small storeroom adjoining the sawmill works of Mr. Dalton, of east Maitland, which was totally destroyed before…
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A fire occurred at the Commercial Hotel, Lillimur, on Monday night. The building and contents were almost completely destroyed. The fire is supposed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Destroyed by Fire
EARLY this morning a barn and outhouse at Penrith, the property of Robert Hamilton, were burnt to the ground. The damage is estimated about £100…
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