Another Theatre Destroyed by Fire. London, Jan. 4
The Bolton Theatre has been destroyed by fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1888
29 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 2
Bush Fires in South Australia
ON Sunday (says an Adelaide telegram) two fires started in the pastoral country along the southeastern coast, which proved to be immensely destructive. One broke out on the road between…
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THE following telegrams show that the destructive season has fully set it. and that it behoves persons travelling or living in the bush to be special careful. In this district the long grass is simply waiting the…
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A telegram from Portland, Vic., states that a great bush fire is raging in the district. It commenced at the Cross roads on Wednesday morning, and spread to Burke's Creek, thence towards the…
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20 miles of country around Gundagai were in a blaze yesterday…
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A MEETING of the members of the above was held in Mr. McMillan's office on Thursday last at which the following were present: Messrs W. McMillan (captain) in the chair, E. Parkinson. C. Crawford…
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Bragetts stables at Coolah were burnt down last might and six race horses killed viz., Bayley's. Western Monarch, Lowes' Mermaid, McMaster's Romany, Kangaroo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. Fire! Fire!! Fire!!! to the Editor of the Western Herald
SAUNTERING along Mitchell street last Wednesday night to enjoy the cool of the evening after a rather hot day, I dropped into the "Royal" to see how the Billiard Tournament was progressing, and…
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A fire broke out at if theatre in Oporto and 80 persons m the gallery were burnt to death. Later…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Correspondence. Bourke Fire Brigade. Where Is It? to the Editor of the "Western Herald"
SIR, — Referring to an article published in your contemporary of to-day, will you kindly permit me space to correct one on two small inaccuracies fallen into by the inspired writer of the same. 1st. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Fire Brigade London, May 3
Mr. Webb, of Shaw's London Fire Brigade, has been appoint of the corps in command of the corps in Sydney…
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The Intercolonial Fire Brigades Doman Station resulted in a loss…
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The steamer Essex from Sydney to London has arrived at Aden with her cargo on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at the Kimberley Diamond Mines. Eight Hundred Miners Entombed. Five Hundred Believed to Have Perished. London, July 13
News has been received to the effect that a terrible catastrophe has occurred at the diamond mines in South Africa. A fire broke out at the entrance to the…
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A fire occurred this morning at Melliday and Co.'s, produce merchants, Sussex-street, the result of spontaneous combustion among some bales of New Zealand flax. The…
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FORWARD the Fire Brigade !—Was there was a man dismayed ? Not though they knew the fire king was hungered;…
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A large fire occurred to-day in the business part of the city of Hamburg. The loss is estimated at several million. marks. Six persons perished in the burning buildings…
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A serious fire secured in George-street this morning, by which the Schwaltz Printing Works and Marshall's Drug Warehouse were consumed. Andersons' billiard rooms…
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A fire at Orenberg, in Russia, has left 10,000 persons homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Brisbane Fire. Sydney, September 21
All papers, notes, and cheques in the safes on D. T. Brown and Co.'s premises were found intact after the fire…
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