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A fire occurred here shortly after midnight, resulting in the total destruction of Burke's general store, Pearce, and Wallsley's fruiterers' shop, the Working Men's Club, and a bootmaker's shop. The fire, which…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire broke out last evening on board the China Navigation Company's steamer Whampoa 1109 tons, Captain J. E. Williams. The vessel arrived on Tuesday evening from Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By mail exchanges we learn particulars of the great fire at Manchester, England, news of which was cabled to the colonies some while since. It broke out shortly before noon one day in January,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire occurred here shortly after midnight, resulting in the total destruction of Burke's general store, Pearce and Wallsley's fruiterers' ship, the Working Men's Club, and bootmaker's shop. The fire, which…
Continued on Trove, page 722 →At half-past 9 o'clock on Wednesday evening the s.s., Whampoa, lying at the Colonial Sugar Company's wharft Pyrmont, caught fire from some cause at presence unknown, whereby the engine-room, stokehole, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 713 →ALBURY, Sunday.--A terrible bush the has been raging for several days on the Barandada, a station on the Victorian side of the river. the grass and fencing are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush fires are reported in various parts of the district, but the most serious is one which commenced a week ago, on Street's Baranduda run, on the Victorian side of the Murray, and which has been burning ever since, destroying…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Melbourne, Monday.--The steamer Easby, which arrived last week from Newcastle, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire. She was laden with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out at Hanly's tailoring establishment in Kendall-street at 1.30 this morning, and it being a wooden tenement, was rapidly consumed. The fire spread to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This morning the Minister for Mines received the following telegram from Lithgow in reference to the fire in the Lithgow Valley mine:—"Yesterday the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush fires are reported in various parts of the district, but the most serious is one which commenced s week ago, on Street's Baranduda run, on the Victorian side of the Murray, and which has been burning ever since, destroying…
Continued on Trove, page 774 →A fire occurred on Wednesday morning in Little Theodore-street, Balmain, by which a three-roomed cottage owned by a Mr. Corbett was destroyed. The origin of the fire is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About noon yesterday an outbreak of fire was disco[?] in a cottage situate on the Botany-road, near the Cap[?] Cook Hotel. The building was constructed of weatherboa[?] and contained three rooms, and there were three oth[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The City Coroner, Mr. Shiell, held an inquest this morning at the Assembly Hotel, Phillip-street, concerning the death of Mrs. Lucy Grimble, who died at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large deputation, consisting of representatives of various fire brigades, and introduced by Mr. J. C. Neild, M.L.A., waited upon the Colonial Secretary yesterday, with reference to a recent failure to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Colonial Secretary yesterday received a deputation representing the volunteer fire brigades, who directed his attention to the fact that, under circumstances which they could not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Jersey assizes on March 1, a shocking charge of wilful murder was preferred against Jeanne Marie Dubosq, a hawker of eggs. The prisoner went to a public-house on December 16 and asked Mary Riot, the servant girl, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquiry was held by the City Coroner yesterday morning, at the Assembly Hotel, Phillip-street, into the circumstances surrounding the death of the unfortunate woman Lucy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday the City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) held an inquest at the Assembly Hotel, Hunter-street, on the body of Lucy Grimble, who was severely burned in a fire which occurred on Sunday last on the Botany-road, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At about 3 o'clock this morning a disastrous fire completely demolished the courthouse. A gale was blowing from the N.E. It is believed that a spark from a brick fireplace in a detached kitchen was the cause, as the fire…
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