An Australian Trader on Fire
At Hongkong recently the barque Clan Caladh, which visited the colonies a few months ago, took fire and had to be scuttled. The vessel had discharged her cargo from Australia and was loading…
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Fires & bushfires, 1896
191 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 10
Fire on the Ship Dalgonar
A cable has been received stating that the ship Dalgonar, bound from Liverpool to Sydney and Newcastle, had put into St Vincent, one of the Cape Verde Islands, on fire. Part of her cargo, which…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The ship Dalgonar, bound for Sydney, took fire at sea, and reached St. Vincent still burning. Part of her cargo consisted…
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LONDON, Monday.—A destructive fire occurred to-day in the workshops of the shipbuilding yards of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, at Belfast…
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LONDON, Monday.—A great fire has been raging for two days in Libau, the Russian port on the Baltic. A large part of the town has been…
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The usual monthly wet practice of members of the West Maitland Fire Brigade was held last night under the direction of Superintendent Phillips. There was a full muster,…
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DENSE volumes of smoke were observed early yesterday morning issuing from the old furnace shaft of the Burwood Colliery about a mile to the rear of Merewether, but it was…
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THE fire at the Burwood Colliery was got well under control on Sunday evening, and yesterday morning Mr. Muncaster, the shipping manager for Mr. Croudace, was enabled…
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A GOOD deal of damage was occasioned by a fire which occurred early yesterday morning at Roberts' Hotel, at the corner of Market and George streets. The premises, which…
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A MOST disastrous fire broke out early yesterday morning on board the ship Macallum More, now lying at Stockton. From what can be learned, it appear that about 3.45…
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A fire occurred at about half-past 12 on Saturday night, whereby one of Mr. James Robinson's houses, situated on the Minmi-road, West Wallsend, was completely…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Series of Fires. a Volunteer Fireman Injured. Sydney
AN unusually large number of fires were reported to-day. Early this morning a fire was discovered in a wooden dwelling in Queen-street, Burwood, the occupant being…
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Last night, in the Temperance Hall, Alderman Rees (the Mayor) presiding, a very successful public meeting was held for the purpose of devising means for raising a fund…
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At a few minutes to 10 o'clock last night the firebell sounded the alarm in West Maitland, and it was reported that a conflagration had broken out in High-street, between…
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AT 1 o'clock on Saturday morning an outbreak of fire was discovered in the jam factory of Mr. Samuel Poster, of Bowthorne, near Hinton. A few minutes before the hour…
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A special meeting of the Maitland Fire Brigade Board was held at the Town Hall, West Maitland, at noon yesterday. Alderman H. Crothers, Mayor, presided, and there…
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At about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the local firebell rang out a brisk alarm. The fire brigade very promptly mustered at their station, and made their way to the seat…
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A difficulty has risen in an acute form between Edinburgh and Glasgow, between which cities there is a jealousy of feeling much skin to that existing between Sydney…
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AT half-past 7 o'clock last evening a fire broke out in a cottage occupied by Mr. Geo Pratt, in Little Gipps-street, Carrington. Mr. Pratt, who was fortunately at home at…
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"If you want to know what my sensations were in my first battle," said a distinguished colonel to a writer in a London journal, " I'll tell you; they were chiefly bewilderment and…
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