A Ship on Fire
THE barque Abbey Town, 702 tons burden, of Liverpool, was driven ashore on the sand a little to the east of the entrance to Calais Harbonr on March 9. The vessel was laden…
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Fires & bushfires, 1890
208 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 11
Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. Fire at Manly
A FIRE broke out at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the shop occupied by Chong Hop, a Chinese fruiterer at Manly. The place was gutted. It is believed the building is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on the Winefred
The Winefred, ship, which put into Bahia with cargo on fire. as advised in a message of 15th March, has effected repairs, and sailed for London. The 4[?]6 bales of damaged wool before referred to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Accident at a Fire. Thirteen Firemen Killed
AN appalling fatality occurred at a fire in Indianapolis on 17th March, and resulted in the frightful death of 13 firemen and the injury of several others. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Legislative Assembly. Wednesday, May 7Th. Protecting River Banks. Amended Fire Brigades Bill. Australian Federation. Debate Adjourned for a Week. SYDNEY
THE Speaker took the chair at 4.30 p.m. Mr. BRUCE SMITH, in answer to Mr. CRICK, for Mr. O'Sullivan, said that the tender of Jesse Burley for £5687 had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Colliery Disaster. a Lancashire Pit on Fire. 350 Miners Entombed
LONDON, Wednesday.—A terrible colliery disaster is reported from Leigh, in Loancashire. One of the pits in the neighhour-hood caught tire to-day, and cut off the egress…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland. Fire Brigade for [?]Ast Maitland
The recent fire at Mr. Dalton's saw-mill in East Maitland, clearly demonstrated the necessity of the inhabitants taking action to initiate a brigade of their own. Formerly it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Fire Fiend
THE terrible fires which recently have occurred at lunatic asylums in America is sufficient to open the eyes of the world to the danger attendant on massing great numbers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Fell in the Fire
DURING Friday night a man named William Roach, who was camped close to the town of Murrumburrah, by some means rolled into his camp fire, and when rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand. Fire in a Factory
Messrs. Findlay and Co's extensive woodenware factory in Cumberland street, Dunedin, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. The loss is estimated at £17,000, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Narrow Escape From Fire
LAST night the destroyer, fire, made an attack on the business premises of Mr. Gates, Hunter-street; but fortunately, through the pluck of two domestics, was cheated of its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Australia. Destructive Fire
A destructive fire occurred in Hay-street, Perth, on Monday night, involving great loss of property. The fire broke out in the shop of a tobacconist named Mandelstam,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Tongue Point Asylum Fire
LONDON, Friday.—The inquiry has terminated into the origin and circumstances attending the terrible fire at the Tongue Point Lunatic Asylum, Montreal, Canada,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire at Liverpool. £100,000 Damage
A VERY alarming fire recently broke out on Mann Island, Liverpool, England. The whole of the warehouses and sheds round two sides of the Manchester Basin have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires in Russia
LONDON, Thursday.—Terrible fires have taken place throughout the Ural district, a province of Eastern Russia. It is estimated that 1000 houses have been destroyed in these…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland. FIRE
While most of our people were in the various churches on Sunday quite a stampede was caused through the fire-bell ringing the alarm. On making inquiries it was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Morpeth. the Fire Fiend
About midnight on Saturday last the roof of Mr. John Tobin's forge in Swan street was found to be in a blaze, though only a few minutes before no sign of a light could be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Losses by Fire
Captain W. Wakcham of the barque Bankfields, writes, dated Liverpool:—"In reading of the frequent losses of coal ships by fire I do not see any mention of what in my opinion, is the most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Fire on a Farm
LATE on Friday night two stacks, one of ensilage and one of hay, 40 tons in all, were destroyed by fire on Mr. Alfred Bennett's estate, Mayfield near Camden. Some out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on the Burrumbeet
On Friday night whilst the cargo of the steamer Burrumbeet was being discharged at Sydney, part of it, consisting of straw and chaff, took fire, caused by the upsetting of a kerosene lamp. The fire was…
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