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Northern Rivers · Fires & bushfires
30 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 2
A FIRE, which quickly assumed alarming proportions and threw the city into a state of intense excitement, broke out Friday night on the steamer Pilbarra, berthed at the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A REVOLTING case of infanticide was reported on Saturday afternoon from Launceston. A married woman named Margaret Brown, aged 41, was arrested and charged at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A MOTOR car was the cause of an exciting and unusual scene in the Strand recently (nays a London paper). At about half-past 9 o'clock an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Captain Cook returned to Sydney this morning, bringing several of the missing steamer Ovalau's passengers. It appears that a fire occurred during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Coraki Council at its last meeting instructed the Clark to obtain certain particulars relative to the formation of a Fire Brigade' fur the town. We trust when these,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORTLY after 6 o'clock on Thursday evening a fire broke out at Tooth's brewery, situated near the railway station, at George-street, west, Sydney. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PRACTICAL demonstration of the Gamewell electric fire alarm was given at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade last week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A beam in the room below Queen Alexandra's sleeping apartment in Sandringhamball caught fire on Wednesday night, with the resalt that a terrible disaster was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FIRE occurred at Sandringham Hall, Norfolk, one of the King's residences, early on the morning of December, 10th, and Queen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A beam under the bedroom of her Majesty Queen Alexandra in the Royal apartments at Sandringham took fire yesterday morning…
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