Potsdam Barracks on Fire. Great Damage Done
BERLIN, Monday.—A fire broke out at the Potsdam Barracks during last night, and before the flames could be extinquished a large part of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1893
219 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 11
Disastrous Fire in Canada. Eighty Houses Destroyed
OTTAWA, Wednesday.—An extensive fire has occurred Fredericton, New Brunswick, resulting in the total destruction of 80 houses before the…
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The secretary of the local Fire Brigade has received an intimation from the Government that the sum of £175 has been paid as a grant to the…
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NEW YORK , Wednesday.—Extensive forest fires are raging in the State of Minnesota, causing enormous damage to limb and property. Four towns…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The Limache, barque, 799 tons, of Liverpool, bound from Adelaide to the United Kingdom or Continent, With a cargo consisting…
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The Limache, barque, 799 tons, of Liverpool, bound from Adelaide to the United Kingdom or Continent, with a cargo consisting of 11,403 bags of wheat, whose arrival in the English Channel was…
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MR. G. C. MARTIN, district coroner, held an inquest at Simpson's hotel, Glebeland, yesterday forenoon touching the cause of a fire which occurred on the premises of Mr…
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AT 4 o'clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered in an empty house in Victoria-street, Adamstown, the property of Mr. James Regan. The Adamstown Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Religious Disturbance at Rangoon. the Police Fire on the Rioters. Streets Cleared by the Military
LONDON, Monday.—Intelligence to hand from Rangoon states that serious rioting took place there yesterday between the Mohammedan and Hindoo…
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AN action was brought by John Francis Abbott in No. 1 Jury Court before the Chief Justice, to recover £459 from the Lion Insurance Co., being £300 due under an…
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AT about half-past 11 o'clock yesterday morning a fire occurred in a weatherboard dwelling-house situated in Railway-street, Merewether, owing to the shingled roofing…
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The members of the Adamstown Fire Brigade held their monthly meeting on Monday night at the fire station. There was a full attendance…
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THE annual meeting of the members of the above brigade was hold on Monday evening. There was a good attendance of members, and a…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—All hope of saving the miners entombed in the Combs pit at Thornhill, through the explosion of firedamp, has been…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Intelligence received from Thornhill, a township in Yorkshire, reports that a terrible explosion of fire-damp took place in a…
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AT the adjourned inquest into the suspicious outbreak of fire which occurred on Friday evening last at a second-hand furniture shop occupied by A. J. Lyuch at 94…
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On Wednesday evening the whole of the officers and members of the newly-formed fire brigade turned out for their first wet practice, which they…
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INTERESTING particulars are given in the Times of India, of 13th May, of the loss under sensational circumstances of the steamer Khiva, which left…
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AT 20 minutes past 7 o'clock last evening the firebells of the city rang out an alarm, the cause being a fire in the dwelling of a Chinaman near Banfield's drapery shop, in…
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ABOUT half-past 4 o'clock yesterday morning portion of the dyke wharf, near the Government workshops, was discovered to be on fire by Water-police Constables Getting and…
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