Our Volunteer Fire Brigade
HURRAH! hurrah! for our Fire Brigade Of gallant Volunteers, By peril or danger ne'er dismay'd,--Whose bold hearts spurn all fears!…
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Yarns by the Camp Fire. by a Rolling Stone. No. 6
It now came to the turn of Fred Driscoll to tell a yarn, and he commenced as follows:—You know I promised to tell you how I managed to capture those cattle-stealers on the Lachlan. I was employed on a cattle-station called Camurra. About fifteen miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand. Great Fire at Horitika
The Otago Daily Times publishes the subjoined particulars, received by electric telegraph, of a disastrous fire which broke out in Revell-street, Hokit[?]ka, about five o'clock on the morning of the 18th July, and which led…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Fire at Hokitika.—twenty Houses Destroyed. Hokitika, Sunday, 5.10 p.m
A tremendous fire occurred at Hokitika, this morning, and was not got under until property to the value of from £20,000 to £80,000 was destroyed. The fire broke out at half-past 4 o'clock in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Schooner Snowbird and Reported Loss by Fire
THE suspension of Mackinlay, Brothers, and the disclosures which have resulted therefrom, have caused an unusual stir in commercial circles. Briefly stated the affair stands thus. Some time previously to…
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On Sunday morning last, between 4 and 5 o'clock, considerable commotion was caused among the residents of the block in William-street, from Ho wick to Durham-street, by…
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The subjoined letters on the above subject have been addressed to Messr. J. and G. Harris, of Brisbane, by Captain Bolt, R. N. R., of the Young Australia. The suggestion contained in them has, we believe, been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire at Wallsend. (From the Newcastle Pilot, August 18.)
Considerable excitement was caused in town yesterday by the circulation of a report to the effect that the Blue Bell Inn and the Primitive Methodist Church Wallsend, had been totally destroyed by fire, early…
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THE public of Sydney are indebted to Messrs. R. S. Pryce and Co. for a useful and economic invention, which they term "fire chips." A bundle of thirty (supplied for threepence) is sufficient to light a fire seven days. The wood is prepared by…
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ship Canaan on Fire on the Passage Feom Sydney to London
The following particulars have reached us of the narrow escape of the ship Canaan, Captain Wilson, from destruction by fire, which occured when the vessel was nine days out from Sydney:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Do You Smell Fire?"
THERE are some people—the most uncomfortable of families to select a wife from-who are always "smelling fire." No sooner have you digested your Caudle (lecture) and fallen off luxuriously into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fire in America
One of the most destructive conflagrations ever known in Queen's County occurred at Hunter's Point yesterday. The fire broke out at three o'clock in the morning, and up to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire Brigade of London
THE scene presented by a London fire is one never to be effaced from the memory. The shouting of the Fire Brigade men as the engine rushes through the streets, while vebicles of all sorts seem to cower into the side-ways;…
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A shocking catastrophe has occurred in the cathedral at Trani, in the province of Naples, where the flimsy finery about the altar took fire (just as in the hideous catastrophe, a few years since,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire at the Redfern Terminus. Inquest
AN inquest was held yesterday morning, before Mr Shiell, City Coroner, at the Railway Hotel, Geerge-street South relative to the origin of a fire which occurred in a blacksmith's shop at the Redfern railway station, on Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inquest on the Fire at the Redfern Terminus
An inquest was held yesterday morning before the City Coroner, at the Railway Hotel George street South, as to the origin of the fire at the blacksmith' shop Railway station. Redfern, which occurred on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Day and Martin's
Shortly after 11 o'clock on Friday night, September 3, a fire was discovered in the blacking establishment of Messrs. Day and Martin, Holborn. The premises consisted of offices fronting the street, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Fire at Janina, Albania
The following is from a private letter:—"In the night of the 9th instant, nearly the whole of Janina was burnt to the ground. The fire lasted nine hours, and the bazaar, about 1300 shops, and 300 private houses,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Day and Martin's
Shortly after 11 o'clock on Friday night, September 3, a fire was discovered in the blacking establishment of Messrs. Day and Martin, Holborn. The premises consisted of offices fronting the street, and a…
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