Bush Fires in Victoria
FROM the Argus of Friday we take the following further particulars of extensive bush fires in the intetior of the colony:— Our Sandhurst correspondent, writing on Thursday,…
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The Weather and Bush Fires in Melbourne
FROM Thursday's Melbourne papers, which came to hand last night, we extract the following respecting the terribly hot weather and the consequent suffering which have been experienced in…
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A chimney fire—one of the largest that has occurred for some time—took place yesterday evening, between 6 and 7 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. Busa, 14, College-street, and for a time threatened to extend…
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BETWEEN 3 and 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning last, a destructive fire broke out in the Clarendon Hotel, occupied by Mr. William Devine, at the corner of Brisbane and East streets. From the…
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THE metropolitan and provincial journals of the sister colony are filled with accounts of very disastrous bush fires, which have not only burnt up the feed in the various localities where they occurred, but have destroyed the…
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FROM the Argus of Friday we take the following further particulars of extensive bush fires in the interior of the colony:— Our Sandhurst correspondent, writing on Thursday,…
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EVERYWHERE the air is surcharged with smoke the result of bush fires. Up the country, more particularly in the neighbourhood of the railway line, there is much complaint of the destruction…
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Between 3 and 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning last, a destructive fire broke out in the Clarendon Hotel, occupied by Mr. William Devine, at the corner of Brisbane and East streets. From the…
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At half-past 12 o'clock this morning a report was conveyed to the fire brigade stations that afire had broken out in the large who lea[?]le warehouse at the coroner of York and Barrack street, in which Messrs…
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SIR,—The late panic at the School of Arts will, I hope, lead to some immediate steps being taken to protect the public against the almost certain danger of a stampede, should the cry of fire be raised in any of our over-crowded…
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SIR,—The frequency of fires, the great loss of property, and even of life, consequent thereon, should lead us to consider whether there is any possible way of diminishing and providing against these calamities…
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The Singapore Daily Timis, of November 16, gives fall partioulara of the loss of the Euxine, beund from Shields to Aden. The following is the evidence of the second officer, Mr. J. Archer, as placed before the British Consul, and Is of a perfectly harrowing…
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On Saturday, 24th October, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the laundry of the Limerick Lunatic Asylum. The laundry, together with the Turkish baths and…
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BETWEEN 3 and 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning last, a destructive fire broke out in the Clarendon Hotel, occupied by Mr. William Devine, at the corner of Brisbane and East streets. From the…
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CONSEQUENT upon the late destructive bush fires throughout the country, we have received a number of letters from correspondents requesting information regarding the law on the subject of the careless use of…
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Shortly before 4 o'clock this morning, information was conveyed to the [?] fire stations that a fire had broken out at the [?] Arms, adjoining the new Oddfellows Hall in Elis[?] street. The…
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About a quarter to 11 o'clock last night, some persons passing by the New Town Hall, in George-street, perceived an unusual glare inside the lower part of the building. Shortly after, smoke was seen…
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THE Singapore Daily Times, of November 16, gives full particulars of the loss of the Euxine, bound from Shields to Aden. The following is the evidence of the second officer, Mr. J. Archer, as placed before the British Consul, and is of a perfectly harrowing…
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A few days ngo the greatest excitement prevailed throughout. Dover in consequence of the presence in the bay of a three-masted ship in the My with flames issuing from her stern. She…
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A terrible fire broke out on Saturday morning in the French College, Blackrock, resulting in the loss of not less than £5000 The lay brother on duty gave the alarm at…
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