A Train on Fire
An accident, which might have resulted in serious Joss of life, was happily averted on Easter Monday evening. About dusk an engine, drawing four or five American cars, left the National…
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A Suburban Train on Fire
SOME excitement was occasioned at the Marrickville station yesterday evening by the discovery that a train in which there were a large number of passengers was on…
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ALBURY, Monday.--About 1 o'clock to-day, while the town was almost deserted through the residents being away holiday making, an outbreak of fire was discovered in a…
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One of the cars of a train which left National Park between 5 and 6 o'clock last night was observed when passing Tempe to be on fire. Word was immediately telephoned to…
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The representations made to the president of the Water and Sewerage Board some weeks ago by a deputation from the fire insurance offices of the city has bad the desired result. At their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fires in Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
At half-past three o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a large dwelling-house in North Williamstown, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Nichol. The latter was away on a visit, and Mr. Nichol was…
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The particulars of the fire on the schooner Victory now to hand, show that the crew could neither tell how the fire originated or to whom the schooner belonged. Now and then cargoes of lime arrive here from New Zealand, the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- A are broke out in the house of John Nicholis, North Williamstown, this morning, and the inmates had a barrow escape. The fire extended rapidly to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Glebe Fire. Purves and His Wife Arraigned
AT the Criminal Court this morning Archibald Purves was arraigned before the Chief Justice, charged with having set fire to his shop at the corner of Mitchell-street and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shelling a Yacht. Mr. J. H. Want in Action. The Miranda Under Fire. Nearly Hit Him--Terror of the Yachtsmen--Thank God We're Alive--Chuckles from Middle Head
MR. J. H. WANT, M.L.A., is in the way of experiences. He was out for a sail in his yacht, the Miranda, yesterday, and lives to tell the tale of his cruise, though it was a…
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THE trial of Archibald Purves for arson and ids wife, Amelia Purves, for being accessory before the fact, was continued at Darlinghurst this morning, before Chief Justice Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fire on the Suburban Train
With reference to the paragraph that appeared in our issue of Tuesday, to the effect that a carriage on the suburban train was on fire on the day previous and that there was a narrow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Glebe Fire. the Second Day. Wilkens' Evidence
At the Central Criminal Court to-day, the trial of Archibald Purves, charged with having set fire to a shop on the corner of Mitchell-street and Glebe-road, Glebe, on February 14, with intent to…
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At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, before the Chief Justice (Sir F. M. Darley) and a jury of twelve, Archibald Purves was placed upon his trial on an indictment charging him with…
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THE trial of Archibald Purves for arson, and his wife. Amelia Purves, for being accessory before the fact, was continued at Darlinghurst, before Chief Justice Sir F. M…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Glebe Fire. the Second Day. Welkins' Evidence
At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, the trialof Archibald Purves, charged with having set fire to a shop on the corner of Mitchell-street and Glebe-road, Glebe, on February 14, with intent to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Glebe Fire. The Summing Up. Verdict of the Jury
THE trial of Archibald Purves for arson, and his wife, Amelia Purves, for being accessory before the fact, was continued at Darlinghurst, before Chief Justice Sir F. M…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Foreign. France and Germany. the Next Blaze Up
On the day that war is declared between France and Germany what will happen? At first (says a New York paper, March 1), there will be, of course, the general mobilization according to the…
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MR. J. H. "Want's account of his experiences between the Heads during the artillery practice on Monday is curious and exciting reading. "While making his way through the Heads his yacht…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Destructive Fire. Loss of Precious Works of Art. [The following cables appeared in our later editions of Saturday.]
London, April 11.-By a disastrous fixe which broke out in the grand old mansion at Waddesdon, the residence of Baron Ferdinand James de Rothschild, several…
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