Wallsend. Fire at Mr. Bousfield's
The promises of Mr. Thomas Bousfield, on the Newcastle-road, near Wallsend tunnel, were discovered to be on fire at a late hour on Monday evening. The fireball…
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Fires & bushfires, 1904
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District News. Plattsburg. Fire at a Cottage
Yesterday, at about 4. p.m. a fire occurred at the residence of Mr. R. Mansfield, Hill-street. At the time a strong westerly wind was blowing, and as the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Camperdown Fire Coroner's Inquiry. Sydney
An inquiry was commenced this morning before the Coroner, Mr. A. N. Barnett, regarding the origin of a fire which occurred on August 30th in a grocer's shop kept by…
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In connection with the outbreak of fire on the ship W. J. Pirrie, a report received by the underwriters, states th the vessel was totally destroyed. It appears that the W. J. Pirrie…
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A fire occurred on Thursday morning at the premises occupied by Mrs. Woodley, of Murray-street, Hamilton. The fire was caused through the igniting of an…
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LONDON, Monday.—The Cudahy Packing Company's factory, 421 11th Avenue, New York, was the scene of a great fire on Saturday. For 16…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on the Ortona
According to advices received from London an outbreak of fire occurred in August 31 on board the R.M.S. Ortona in Tilbury Dock. The Ortona arrived at Plymouth on her last trip…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on the Mount Stewart Extensively Damaged. Sydney
At about half-past three o'clock this morning a fire broke out on board the ship Mount Stewart, lying at Parhury's Wharf, Dawn's Point. The alarm was…
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A deputation from the Fire Brigades Board asked the Chief Secretary to-day, to extend the headquarters of the M.F.B. by the acquisition of a piece of land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Mining Disaster. Gold Mines on Fire. Several Lives Lost. Brisbane
A message was received at the Brisbane Stock Exchange this afternoon, from Charters Towers, stating that the Brillian Mine was on fire, and that the flames…
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A serious outbreak of fire occurred on the steamer Dorset at Fremantle on Sunday. The fire broke out in No. 3 starboard bunker, and had been raging for some time when it was…
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LONDON, Thursday.—By a fire in a tenement house at. King's Cross, London, six people were suffocated and three injured…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The correspondent of the London "Standard" with General Kuroki reports that a Russian battalion was almost annihilated while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on the Dorset. Perth
The fire in the bunkers of the steamer Dorset broke out again to-day, and the lumpers who were removing the cargo were compelled to cease work. The bunkers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on the Peregrine. the Vessel Not Damaged. Brisbane
The Howard Smith Co., Ltd's steamer Peregrine, which left Brisbane yesterday afternoon for Keppel Bay, Fiat Top, and Townsville, returned to port this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dorset Fire
The whole of the Adelaide cargo on the steamer Dorset, on which a fire broke out while at Fremantle, was landed at Adelaide on Saturday, free from fire damage. A general average…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Cardiff. Cottage Destroyed
On Tuesday afternoon a five-roomed weatherboard cottage facing the main Government-road at Cardiff was destroyed by fire. The cottage was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Church-street
At about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the little homestead in Reid-street, known as Cliff Cottage, one of the early built weatherboard houses in Newcastle, was in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in an American Mine
About a month ago a systematic effort was started to extinguish a fire that bas been raging for fifty years in one of the mines of the anthracite coal regions is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hamilton. Fire in a Dwelling
On Sunday afternoon, at about six o'clock, a fire took place at the premises of Mr. C. W. Holmes, of Milton-street, Hamilton. The fire is said to have been…
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