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The s.s. Menmuir has arrived from Hong Kong with Chinese files to May 22. They state that the cost of tho demonstration on the occasion of the royal visit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, June 11.—Terrible fires have taken place throughout the Ural district, a province of Eastern Russia. It is estimated that 1000 houses have been destroyed in these conflagrations…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →On Saturday evening, at about thirteen minutes past 9, warning was given to the M.F.B. Station by some boys from No. 3 alarm box that premises situated at 111, Pitt-street, tenanted by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →What might have been [?] serious outbreak of fire was discovered about 9.10 on Saturday night on premises situated at 111 Pitt-street. About 9 o'clock smoke was noticed by some pa[?]ers by proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Something of fatality in respect of fires would seem to attend a Saturday night in Sydney. The matter may, no doubt, be explained -without having recourse to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Particulars were received in Sydney yesterday by the steamer Airlie of several shipping disasters in Eastern waters. One of the vessels lost was the ship Eusemere, which visited Port…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--A fire occurred on Sunday at Bolwarra, destroying two hay sheds containing a quantity of hay, chaff, and a number of agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Monday.--Yesterday about noon a rather serious fire broke out in Messrs. Crouch and Mead's premises, at Liddelsdale, near Maitland, when two hay-abeds, several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday afternoon a large storeroom at the quarantine station, Manly, was burned to the ground, the damage being estimated at about £2000. Shortly before 3.30 p.m. a Mrs. Hayes, wife of one of the men…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A FIRE broke out in the large store-room at the Quarantine Station, Manly, yesterday afternoon, and before the flames could he quenched the building was burnt to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At about 3.30 p.m. on Saturday, an enormous blaze was discovered raging in a building occupied as a Government store-room on the Quarantine Station. The fire was discovered by Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Florence Sinclair, aged 13, pleaded guilty to having on May 35, at Rookwood, set fire to the property of the Rev. Hugh Dunlop. The Rev. Mr..Dunlop stated that the cottages occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A small fire broke out yesterday afternoon in a cottage in Botany-street, Surry Hills. A child in one of the rooms was playing with matches, and set fire to a bed, which was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Chenange County Poorhouse and Lunatic Asylum, near Norwich, New York, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday evening, thirteen persons, including eleven idiots, being burned to death…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the English mail just to hand we get fuller details of the terrible fire at the Longue Pointe Lunatic Asylum on May 6, brief particulars of which by cable have appeared in the EVENING…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An alarm of fire rang out from Harper's Coffee Mills, Bathurst-street, last evening, under rather exceptional circumstances. One of the patent sprinklers, with which the building is fitted, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Mr. Gillies started in the Assembly to-night that on Tuesday he would introduce the Metropolitan Board of Works Bill and explain its provisions. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Colonial Treasurer has appointed a board of inquiry to make an investigation respecting the origin of the fire at No. 1 store, Quarantine Station, Manly, on Saturday last, and also to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WAGGA, Thursday.--The pavilion on the ground of the Wagga Cricket Association was discovered in flumes last evening. It contained quantity of cricket material and football…
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