Destructive Fire at Dunedin. Dunedin July 20
Empire · Wednesday 29 July 1868 · page 4
The most destructive fire which has ever visited his city, broke out on Friday night in the stables of the Commerical Hotel. The origin of the conflagration is enveloped in mystery; but it is supposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destructive Fire at Dunedin. Estimated Losses £12,650. a Man Burnt Alive. Several Horses Destroye[?], (from the Wellington Independent.) Dunedin, Monday, July 20
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 July 1868 · page 5
The most destructive fire which has over visited this city, broke out on friday night in the stables of the Commercial Hotel. The origin of the confiagration is enveloped in m[?]stery; but it is supposed to have been caused by a man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Important From New Zealand. Serious Native Outbreak. Defeat and Hobrible Massacre of Armed Constabulary by the Maoris. Escape of Maori Prisoners. Destructive Fire in [?]Unedin. Captain Ross, Sergeant M'Farlane, and Eighteen others killed
Empire · Wednesday 29 July 1868 · page 4
The Wanganui Times of Monday, July 13th, issued the following extra, at 7 o'clock in the morning:— A mounted orderly arrived in town about 5 o'clock last evening, with a despatch from Colonel M'Donnell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Fire at Valliejo, California
Empire · Saturday 1 August 1868 · page 6
The Vallejo Weekly Chronicle, of May 23rd, contains the following particulars of the late fire in that place:— On Monday morning last, the most destructive fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destructive Fire at Dunedin. Estimated Losses £12,650. a Man Burnt Alive. Several Horses Destroyed. Dunedin, Monday, July 20
Sydney Mail · Saturday 1 August 1868 · page 11
The most destructive fire which has ever visited this city, broke out on Friday night in the stables of the Commercial Hotel. The origin of the conflagration is enveloped in mystery; but it is supposed to have been caused by a man…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Disastrous Fire at Auckland. Mated Loss £14,000. Several Persons Seriously Injured. (From the New Zealand Herald, August 3.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 5
WE have to chronicle one of the most melancholy ters that has over taken place in our city. A [?] place yesterday morning in one of the most lous neighbourhoods of Auckland, and its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire at Auckland. Estimated Loss, £14,000. Several Persons Seriously Injured
Empire · Monday 24 August 1868 · page 3
The New Zealand Herald chronicles one of the most melancholy disasters that has ever taken place in that city. A fire took place on the 2nd instant in one of the most populous neighbourhoods of Auckland, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dreadful Catastrophe in New York. Explosion of a Steam Fire-engine. (From the New York Herald, June 2[?].)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 August 1868 · page 5
AT a few minutes past 9 o'clock on Thursday evening, June l8, the fire bells sounded an alarm of fire near the corner of Canal-street and the Bowery. Engine No. 9 was promptly on the ground, when it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dreadful Catastrophe in New York. Explosion of a Steam Fire Engine
Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 13
AT a few minutes past 9 o'clock on Thursday evening. June 18, the fire bells sounded an alarm of fire near the corner of Canal-street and the Bowery. Engine No. 9 was promptly on the ground, when it was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Disastrous Fire at Auckland.—estimated Loss £14,000. Several Persons Seriously Injured
Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 3
WE have to chronicle one of the moat melancholy disasters that has ever taken place in our city. A fire took place yesterday morning in one of the most populous neighbourhoods of Auckland, and its results…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Fires on the Moo[?]
Empire · Monday 7 September 1868 · page 3
The fires on the Yorkshire mo[?]rs have proved very destructive, nearly 4000 acres having been laid waste, with all their vegetable productas and game. Two fires broke out simultaneously, one near the Cleveland Hills…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires Caused by the Heat of the Weather
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 September 1868 · page 6
On the 17th July the Metropolita[?] Fire Brigade received from their chief office information that seven fires had occurred in different parts of London. One was unquestionably, caused by the heat of the sun, and it occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destructive Fire in Suffolk
Empire · Tuesday 8 September 1868 · page 4
On Sunday morning a fire broke out in a row of thatched cottages in Bury-street, Stowmarket, Suffolk, by which no fewer than eighteen cottages were destroyed and eighty men, women, and children…
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Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 September 1868 · page 11
On the 17th July the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received from their chief office information that seven fires had occurred in different parts of London. One was unquestionably caused by the heat of the sun, and it occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Windsor. [From Our Correspondent.] Windsor Volunteer Fire Brigade
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 September 1868 · page 5
THE annual meeting of this company was held on Thursday evening last, at the office of the superintendent, Mr. R. Coley, Fitzgerald-street. There was a very good attendance of members. Mr. Superintendent Coley occupied the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late American Items. [From the Alta California, July 1.) The Great Fire in Marquette, Mich
Empire · Tuesday 15 September 1868 · page 3
The Plain Dealer says: Smouldering heaps of ashes are all that remain of the b[?]ness houses of our once thriving young oily. Not one a place of business was left on Front-street—all were destroyed—many with their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire and Loss of Life at Ballarat
Empire · Monday 21 September 1868 · page 3
Betveen 4 and 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon a fire broke out in the premises occupied by a family armed Harvey, opposite to St. John's Church, Soldier's hill. The Western fire-ball gave the general alarm,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vertical Fire
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 September 1868 · page 3
THE experiments against the roof of the casemated iron structures at Shoeburyness were an agreeable variety on the eternal hammering of iron plates, and indicate that the question of vertical fire has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destruction of a Theatre by Fire
Empire · Monday 5 October 1868 · page 4
Tho Turin Gu[?]ette gives details of the barning of the Nota Theatre in that city. The di[?]aster occured during the performance of Criapino is Comare. The house was uncrowded, and the piece had arrived at about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in Mew Zealand. Reported Horrible Treatment of the Wounded. The Mairies Fire into the Camp at Waihi; Mutiny of Von Tempsky'a Men
Empire · Monday 5 October 1868 · page 3
If will be seen from the subjoined intelligence that the statement made by one of the wounded that the prisoners were tortured is confirmed. It also appears that the body of…
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