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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
37 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 2
On Wednesday morning one of the biggest fires that Sydney bas ever known consumed almost the whole of Anthony Hordern's. hamense buildings' at the Haymarket. It lasted-some 2…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FURTHER particulars with regard to the fire at Messrs. Anthony Hordern and Sons' Haymarket Emporium have now transpired. The saddest feature was that four men were missing. They…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT reads strangely that with all the modern appliances for extinguishing fires, organised fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Tuesday under District Fire-officer Ford of George-street West station, a number of labourers were busy in removing debris from the tower building and searching for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ONE of the chief features of interest in Saturday's proceeding at the Palace Emporium fire was the opening up of the strong-room and safes. The result was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE finding of the Coroner's jury on the fire which destroyed the Grand Hotel, Auckland, that it was due to the wilful act of Jessie Minns, the housemaid, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at Clunes about one o'clock on Wednesday morning last, resulting in the total destruction of the Perseverance Dairy Factory, together with all its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN OPEN VERDICT. On Saturday afternoon the District Coroner (Mr. F. G. Adrian, P.M.). held an inquiry at the residence of Mr. R. E. Walker, J.P., Clunes,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN declining to allow the confession made by Jessie Minns, the girl who is supposed to have set fire to the Grand Hotel, Auckland, and who afterwards told a sensational story…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Friday morning, while the workmen employed by the insurance companies were removing the debris at the Palace Emporium they found the remains of a human body on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thu Ultimo Power-house stands in Mary Annstreet, within a stone's throw of Harris-street, and with the addition of the car-sheds extends back to William and Henry-st. The building is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A sudden crashing noise, followed by a blindflash of electric light, which was succeeded by darkness throuhgout the Ultimo power-house shortly before 9 o'clock on Thursday night told the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE steamer Heathdeane, bound for Dunedin, arrived at Albany from New York on Saturday. She had a remarkable escape from destruction by fire. The coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MANY awful demonstrations have lately been afforded us of the specially favorable conditions offered the fire fiend (in a marked degree in Sydney) once it gets a start in any of our large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A NUMBER of gentlemen met at the office of the Chief Inspector of Stock, Sydney, last week, to discuss the question of branding, and witness an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the offices of the " Evening News" last week, Mr. C. O. Michel, at present of Sydney, gave an exhibition of the working of a fire esoape that he has patented,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE fire which destroyed the Oriental Hotel, Wellington (N.Z.) on the 24th November, and resulted in the death of Mr. W. I. Crawfors, who was at one time a master at Newington…
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