The Fire at Quebec
On May 24 the alarm sounded from the box in the vicinity of St. Rock's Church, which called the fire brigade promptly to the spot. Before the water could be obtained in…
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The Fire in the Forests
Every day brings additional news to previous reports of the extensive coflagrations in the forests and on the mountain woodlands in Sullivan, Orange, Delaware, and Madison…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wave Prospect. " It is like a draught of Fire!"— Golden Legend. Chapter Vi. Emma Fairborne
THE case of Emma Fairborne became a topic of interest; first of all professionally, between Cecil and Dr. Williams and George, and afterwards at Wave Prospect generally, when Mr. Woodroffe became…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wave Prospect. "It is like a drought of Fire!"—Golden Legend. Chapter Vii. Poor Tom Rivers and His Nemesis.— Winifrede
BEFORE returning to Wave Prospect, George and Florence went to pay a visit to Tom Rivers, to whom Mrs. Woodroffe had been sending relief, since the loss of his situation…
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If a house is on fire, what should the bystanders do I Send immediately for a fire-engine, and give the alarm. What is the next thing they should do! Use every effort to save the inmates before they think about the furniture…
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As Mr. Woodroffe became convalescent, and gladness brightened, as before, the upper halls of Wave Prospect; the nether halls, that is to say the servants' hall, began to assume a revolutionary aspect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wave Prospect. "It is like a draught of Fire!"—Golden Legend. Chapter Ix. the Witting of the Wall Plats."
THE decision of Emma Fairborne to decline the hospitality of Wave Prospect was a decision—there in as no altering it. But the ice once broken, the intimacy between her and the Woodroffes grew…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wave Prospect. "It is like a draught of Fire!"—Golden Legend. CHAPTER X. Lord Bayford and Cecil on the Question of the Indirect Nutrition of Alcohol
LORD Bayford did not care to go home to Bayford Park, and return before evening. It might have been done, indeed; but as it was to be a bachelor party, and one quite improvised, dressing was out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wave Prospect. "It is like a draught of Fire!"—Golden Legend. Chapter Xi. Cecil's Warning
THE evening spent, or rather misspent, at Paphos was one of those over which it is more charitable to draw a veil. Mr. Livermore had decidedly the advantage over his more intellectual guests. The old maxim of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire at Hamilton. Great Loss Oe Property. Hamilton, 18th September
A MOST disastrous fire broke out in Grey-street at an early hour this morning, which destroyed all the buildings between the Weigh-bridge and Thomson's It commenced in Messrs. Nickless and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire at Hamilton. Great Loss Oe Property. Hamilton, 18th September
A MOST disastrous fire broke out in Grey-street at an early hour this morning, which destroyed all the buildings between the Weigh-bridge and Thomson's iron store. It commenced in Messrs. Nicklesd and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wave Prospect. "It is like a draught of Fire!"—Golden Legend. Chapter Xii. the Bayford Cottages and Anti-alcoholic Hall Human Helps
THE better acquaintance which Lord Bayford was enabled to cultivate with Emily Woodroffe was a thing of very rapid growth. So naturally, indeed, did the acquaintance ripen into close intimacy, that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire in West Maitland. (From Yesterday's Mercury.)
A FIRE broke out in the stores of Mr. James O'Neil, at an carly hour on Tuesday morning, and ended in the total destruction of the premises of that gentleman, and also caused considerable damage to the premises adjoining. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Destructive Fire in Hunter-street
A FIRE, which resulted in considerable destruction of property, took place, yesterday afternoon, in Hunter-street. The block in which the fire originated, and to which it was confined, is on the northern side of Hunter-street, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Destructive Fire in Hunter-street. —Six Houses Burned
AT about five and twenty minutes to five o'clock, yesterday afternoon, smoke was seen issuing from the back of the roofs of the houses in Hunter-street, in the occupation of Mr. Turner, bookseller, and engraver,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destructive Fire in Hunter-street.— Six Houses Destroyed
AT about five and twenty minutes to five o'colck, yesterday afternoon, smoke was [?] issuing form the back of the roofs of the bouses in [?] street, in the occupation of Mr. Turner, bookseller and engraver,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wave Prospect. "It is like a draught of Fire!"—Golden Legend. Chapter Xiii
As the preparation for vigorous abstinence measures were of a nature to ensure their being immediately known to the public, and as, so soon as known, every effort would be tried on the part of the licensed…
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"Louis has had his baptism of fire." —Emperor's Telegram. "How jolly, Papa ! how funny ! How the blue men tumble about…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Destructive Fire in Hunter-street
A FIRE, which resulted in considerable destruction of property, took place, on the 30th ultimo, in Hunter-street. The block in which the fire originated, and to which it was confined, is on the northern side of Hunter-street, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Fire in Hunter-street. Six Houses Destroyed
AT about five and twenty minutes to five o'clock, [on Friday afternoon, smoke was seen issuing from the back of the roofs of the houses in Hunter-street, in the occupation of Mr. Turner, bookseller and engraver,…
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