Fatal Fire on the Manning
A FIRE occurred at the place of Mr. Joseph Sidner, farmer, of King's Creek, Larry's Flat, at about dusk on Friday evening. An inquest was held on…
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Fires & bushfires, 1891
13 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
The Nothern Star. Wednesday, 18Th February, 1891. the Lismore Fire Brigade
SINCE the false alarm of fire, on Saturday last, the status of the. present Fire Brigade has been brought under discussion, and this has led us to make some inquiries. We…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Precaution in Cases of Fire
To prevent clothes burning, add one ounce of al[?]m to the last water used in rinsing children's dresses, and they will be rendered uninflammable or so slightly combustible, that they will take…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TELEGRAPHIC Destructive Fire at Grafton. GRAFTON
A MOST disastrous fire broke out about two o'clock this morning in the Sax-onian Store, at the corner of Mary and Dobie streets, near the racecourse. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Yucatan Bull-Fight. Poor Beasts Cruelly Tortured with Fire and Spear-Thrusts
Bull-fights have been so many times described that I will spare, the reader the details of this battle, writes a Mexican correspondent. Suffice it to say it was as cowardly…
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A REUTER'S telegram from Queenstown states that a fire, which might have been of a most disastrous nature, broke out in the after—hold of the City of Richmond,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire at Bexhill. Another Fire—origin Unknown
SHORTLY after midnight of Thursday Mr. Hugh Livingstone's store at Bexhill was discovered to be on fire, and it then had such a hold that nothing could be done to arrest its progress, or even to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bexhill Fire. Coroner's Inquiry
ON Wednesday last an inquiry was held at Bexhill by the Coroner (Dr. L. Bernstein) and the following jury:—Messrs. J. M'Gregor, Dunn (foreman), J. M. Godbee, T. W. Geraghty, G A. Kendall, L…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →TELEGRAPHIC Destructive Fire at Lismore. LISMORE
THE Chronicle Office was burnt to the ground this morning Everything was totally destroyed. The loss is estimated at about £800, Nothing was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another Extensive Fire in Sydney
A FIRM of a serious nature took place in the furniture warehouse of Messrs. Moore and Co., Pitt-street, near Market-street, at an early hour on Saturday morning. The flames were first…
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In a recent western fire it was again demonstrated in the dearest manner possible that California redwood as a building material comes nearer being fire-proof…
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IT was intended to officially "christen" the new fire eugine and have a torchlight procession round the town, headed by the Lismore Band, on Saturday night, but, owing to the heavy thunderstorm…
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ON Saturday night the postponed event of "christening " the neow fire engine was celebrated, when the Mayor (Mr. O'Flynn) in the presence of a large number of townspeople, broke the orthodox bottle of…
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