The Gweedore Evictions. a Constable Refuses to Fire
Evening News · Thursday 8 December 1887 · page 7
The evictions at Gweedore, Irelaad, were resumed amid renewed excitement, and a determined resistance was offered by the occupants of one house, the doors ci which were barricaded with…
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The Australian Star · Friday 9 December 1887 · page 8
A SIRE broke oat about 10.50 but night on the railway bridge. Liberty-street, Marrickville, caused, it is supposed, by a sport from an engine. About…
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Evening News · Friday 9 December 1887 · page 4
Last night, as the members of the Darlington Fire Brigade were preparing for their drill, a young lady named Mary Muir, a public school teacher, aud. residing with her parents at Greenock…
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Evening News · Saturday 10 December 1887 · page 4
PARRAMATTA.-A fire, which caused considerable damage, broke out last night about 7 o'clock in the stables belonging to Dunn's Currency Lass Hotel, Parramatta north. The fire was first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Story Teller. Playing with Fire. the Story of a Grave Error
Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1887 · page 6
In a crowded London drawing-room, one—evening near the end of May, Howard Scott was leaning against the door-post, rather sulkily wishing that the…
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Evening News · Monday 12 December 1887 · page 4
This morning a fire broke out on the premises owned and occupied by Mr. J. W. Flemming, produce merchant, Engine-street, off the Ultimo-road, Haymarket. The Metropolitan and several…
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Evening News · Tuesday 13 December 1887 · page 6
A fire took place at Wellington,New Zealand,early on Monday; general store, valued at £50 and the contents at £550, being destroyed. The stock was owned by Edward Colrie, and the…
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The Australian Star · Tuesday 13 December 1887 · page 7
A TER[?]LS S[?] was witnessed recently at a fire at Chicago. A three-storey house in Archer Avenue was discovered to be on fire about 3 o'clock in the morning. A…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 December 1887 · page 5
WELLINGTON, Monday.--A fire broke out on Sunday morning in the premises occupied by Messrs. Cahill and Co., storekeepers. The stock and building, which was a wooden structure,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 December 1887 · page 8
At about half-past 10 o'clook yesterday morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. J. W. Flanigan, corn dealer, Ultimo-street, which assumed such dimensions that within a short time the structure and contents were entirely…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 December 1887 · page 6
A large fire broke out on the premises of Mr. J. W. Flanagan, hay and corn dealer, Ultimostreet, at about half-past 10 a.m. yesterday, and before it could be extinguished a considerable…
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Evening News · Wednesday 14 December 1887 · page 3
The fire bell sounded at 12 yesterday, and it was found that a stack of grass-hay, being made from grass from the reserves, and stacked on a vacant piece of land near the corner of George…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 December 1887 · page 5
BOURKE, Tuesday.--Both Deignan's Commercial Hotel and Mr. K. C. M' Kenzie's private residence had a narrow escape from fire this afternoon. The fire started in some…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 14 December 1887 · page 3
A FIRE, which at its commencement threatened to do considerable damage, broke out in a hay loft at the rear of Mr. Dunn’s Currency Lass Hotel, Parramatta North, just before 8…
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The Australian Star · Wednesday 14 December 1887 · page 6
Bourke, This Day. -- A fire broke out yesterday afternoon at the rear of Mr. B. C. M'Kenzie's residence. It was first, observed in a lumber - room by a servant,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 December 1887 · page 5
ALBURY, Wednesday.--A fire broke out today in a wooden house, the residence of a man named Larkins, which was completely destroyed. A brickmaker named Brown, who was assisting…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 15 December 1887 · page 5
ALBURY, This Day.--A weatherboard house, occupied by Mr. J. Larkins, was burned down last night. A man Brown was killed by the heat and…
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Evening News · Friday 16 December 1887 · page 6
BOURKE.-A fire broke out yesterday afternoon in a store at the rear of Mr. M'Kenzie's residence, adjoining Deignan's Commercial Hotel. M'Kenzie's store was entirely consumed. The…
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The Australian Star · Friday 16 December 1887 · page 6
WALLSEND, This Day.--The P[?]attsburg Council have decided to fall in with the Wallsend Council in establishing a Fire Brigade, notwithstanding the illegality of…
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Evening News · Friday 16 December 1887 · page 6
ALBU[?]Y.-A nre occurred at 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening, in a weatherboard house occupied by a man named Larkins, on the Albury flat. Daring the removal of the furniture from…
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