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A great fire has taken place at Tauranga, destroying 17 of the principal business places in the town. As most of the residences and stores were built of kauri pine timber, the flames spread with alarming…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coronor (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) commenced an inquiry at his chambers yesterday relative to the destruction by fire of a weatherboard house at Marrickville on the morning of May 21. The house was occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The annual-meeting of the Australian Mutual Fire Society was held on Thursday at noon, in the Temperance Hall, when the following report for the ninth year ending 31st March, 1881, was submitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,-The position of the fire brigades of this colony is sot one which we can, as a progressive people, feel proud of. They do not, as a whole, receive from the publics that sympathy and support they are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual meeting of this society was held on Thursday at noon in the Temperance Hall, when the following report for the ninth year ending 31st March, 1881, was submitted to the shareholders. The directors congratulated the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on this fire, which was adjourned from Thursday last, was resumed at 9 o'clock yesterday morning, when the following additional evidence was taken :--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J. P.) commenced an inquiry at his chambers on Thursday, June 2, relative to the destruction by fire of a weatherboard house at Marrickville on the morning of May 21. The house was occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest as to the cause of the fire at a cottage in Alma-lane, Marrickville, occupied by Mrs. Aliee South, was continued to-day. The following witnesses were examined this morning:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest on the late fire at the residence of Mrs. Smith, in Alma-lane, Marrickville, was concluded yesterday, and the jury, after a retirement of two hours, delivered the following verdict:—We find…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The correspondent of the New Zealand Herald reports that a most disastrous fire occurred here on the night of May 31. The loss is roughly estimated at £30,000. The most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The adjourned inquiry into the fire which took place on the 21st May last, in Alma-lane, Stanmore-road, when a cottage inhabited by Mrs. Alice Smith was destroyed, was resumed yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The iquest on the fire whcih destroyed a weatherboard building at Marrickville, occupied by Mrs. Alice Smith and a man named John Eager, on Saturday morning, May 21st, was resumed by the Coroner at his chambers at 9…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, June 9.—Intelligence of a terrible and disastrous conflagration has been received. The fire occurred in St. John, one of. the suburbs of the city of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The usual monthly meeting of the United Volunteer Fire Brigades was held on Friday evening at their meeting room. Mr. E. Oram (superintendent general) occupying the chair. Delegates were present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I SHOULD rather say we do want a bill to prohibit in some way the promiscuous carrying of loaded fire-arms,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) commenced an inquiry at his chambers on Thursday, June 2, relative to the destruction by fire of a weatherboard house at Marrickville on the morning of May 21. The house was occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 949 →A most disastrous fire (the correspondent of the N. Z. Herald reports) occurred here on the night of May 31. The loss is roughly estimated at £30,000. The most valuable portion of the town has been totally destroyed, including…
Continued on Trove, page 949 →A disastrous fire broke out to-day, and spread with great rapidity, owing to the high wind which prevailed. There was an enormous destruction of property before the fire was finally…
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