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The Wagga Wagga Cricket Association's pavilion on the cricket ground was destroyed by fire last evening at 7 o'clock. It was built of wood and roofed with iron, and had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Between 7 and 8 o'clock yesterday evening the Wagga Cricket Association pavilion was totally destroyed by Are. The building was erected three years ago by Mr. Charles Hardy at a cost of £136, and was uninsured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The buildings situate at 527 Kent-street, and occupied by the Australasian Builder and Contractors' News, and by Baker and Bottison, photo-zince ongravers, was the scone last night of a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A destructive fire broke out last evening in premises occupied by the proprietors of the AUSTRALASIAN BUILDER AND CONTRACTORS' NEWS and by Messrs, Baker and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →I was tossing up with Billy As to who should fetch the p'locce For to cart away the Emu, Who was drunk as forty geese,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 9 o'clock last night a clerk named Gray, who was working late on the Australasian Builders and Contractors' News, No. 527 Kent-street, heard a peculiar sound on the top…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire was discovered last night at a house, No. 1 Huendan-terrace, Cavendish-street, Petersham, occupied by Mr. Thomas Street. Two rooms in the back part of the building were damaged by fire and the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Terrible fires have taken place throughout the Ural district, a province of Eastern Russia. It is estimated that 1000 houses hare been destroyed in these conflagurations…
Continued on Trove, page 1362 →A FIRE broke out in the building occupied as offices of the AUSTRALASIAN BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS' NEWS, No. 527 Kent-street, about 9 o'clock last night, and though the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the English mail just to hand we get fuller details of the terrible fare at the Longue Pointe Lunatic Asylum on May 6, brief particulars of which by cable have appeared in this journal…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At about 10 o'clock on Saturday morning an outbreak of fire, which resulted in the total destruction of a weatherboard cottage and contents, occurred at the Australian Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The report of the board appointed by the Colonial Treasurer to inquire into the circumstances under which one of the stores at the Quarantine Station was recently destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The board appointed by the Colonial Treasurer to investigate into the cause of the outbreak of fire at the Quarantine Station, by which one of the-stores was burnt down and its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, June 23.—The men of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade demand an increase of pay, shorter hours of labor, and pensions after a certain number of years'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, June 24.—One half the town of Forte de France, in the Island of Martinique, West Indies, has been destroyed by fire. Five thousand inhabitants are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One-half the settlement of Fort France, in the Island of Martinique, in the West Indies, has been destroyed by fire. Five thousand inhabitants are rendered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At 10 p.m. on Thursday a fixe was discovered raging at stables situated at the rear of premises, 197, Albion-street, Surry Hills. The blaze was happily discovered before it took too great a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire occurred on board the ship Borrowdale at Honolulu in the early pare of the month. It was, however, extinguished before any serious injury was done to the ship, hut the cargo suffered much damage…
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