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DENILIQUIN, Monday.—A tremendous fire has been raging on Tuppal Station, owned by Thomas Brown. About 50,000 acres of grass and fencing have been consumed. There were 30,000 sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HOBART, Tuesday.--A fire at Beaconsfield, Tasmania, has destroyed a large area of crops…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday. -- Extensive bush fires are still raging in Taranaki, on the west coast of the North Island, and there are no signs of their abatement. The damage is enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BATHURST, Tuesday.--For some time past a difference has existed between the fire insurance companies represented here and the Fire Brigade Board, It arose over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The iron ship Pythomene, Calcutta to New York, with a carge of jute, took fire at the last-named port shortly after arrival, and owing to the violence of the outbreak, great damage was done. It was ovenlually found necessary to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CROOKWELL, Friday.--The kitchen, with bedroom and store-room attached, at the residence of Mr. Joseph Leary, farmer, of Middle Creek, have been burned to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Thursday.--Considerable commotion was caused in Stanley-street to-night. A man named Michael M'lner ney became enraged at the conduct of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire bells rang the alarm lust night at 8 o'clock. T. Mooney's stubble paddock, Foxborough Hall, had caught fire, and had extended towards the haystacks, which were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DENILIQUIN, Monday.—A tremendous fire has been raging on Tuppal Station, owned by Thomas Brown. About 50,000 acres of grass and fencing have been consumed. There were 30,000 sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →About twenty minutes to 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call from the street telephone at the corner of Market and Sussex streets, to a fire reported to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A report from down the river states that extensive fires have destroyed 30,000 acres of grass and fencing. on Tuppa' Station. At the fire a young man named Fallon, son of a selector on Tuppal, was caught…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ALBURY, Sunday. -- Later reports from central Riverine state that the extensive bush fire which started at Tuppal station last week is still burning. It is estimated that up to the tho tiro has devastated about 60,000a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BATHURST, Saturday.--A. fire was narrowly averted on the A. J. S. Bank premises in William-street last night. There was a strong wind blowing and [?] window being…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Monday,--A public mooting has been called at Taranaki to devise means to relieve settlers ruined by the recent bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the quarterly meeting of the City Municipal Council on Monday notice of motion was given by Alderman M. Chapman to the following effect: "That this council do now proceed to elect…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, March 12.—The Morfa Colliery, near Cardiff, the scene of the recent terrible explosion, and in which nearly 200 miners are entombed, has now caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The work of extinguishing the fire in the Morfa Colliery, Glamorganshire, has at length been successful. The exploration parties have again resumed work…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Further details respecting the terrible explosion at the colliery in South Wales show that the mine is on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Morfa Colliery, at Cardiff, in which a terrible explosion occurred, with the result that hundreds of miners were entombed, has now caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The work of extinguishing the fire in the Morfa Colliery, Glamorganshire, has at length been successful. The exploration parties have again resumed work…
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