Fire in Windsor. a Woman Burnt to Death. MELBOURNE
A three-roomed weatherboard cottage at Windsor was burnt down to-day. Mrs. Sarah Virtue, 63 years, was burnt to death, and the body on being recovered presented…
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A Barquentine on Fire. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Auckland
The barquentine Netti[?], loading flax at Lyttelton, for Boston, caught fire to-night, it is supposed throug[?] spontaneous combustion. She has 18,000 bales aboard. Preparations are being made to sink…
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At 6.20 p.m. on Friday a fire broke out on premises, used as a china and glass shop, situate at 11, Parramatta-road, Glebe, and occupied by Mr. Louis Israel. The fire occurred through some…
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LONDON, September 6.—A terrible fire took place last night in Salonica, a large seaport in Roumelia, and one of the principal seats of commerce in European…
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DUBBO, Monday.-- An inquiry was held to-day at Merriam, the residence of E. H. Barton where s hayshed continuing about 40 tons of hay was destroyed by fire last week. The…
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A fire broke out at 23 minutes past 7 o'clock last evening at No. 4, Crib-lane, off Cumberland-street, occupied by Mrs. M'Henlay, dressmaker The North City Volunteer Fire Brigade got the…
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SOME tar which is being used in the erection of now premises for the New South Wales Fresh Food and Iee Co. boiled over and took fire about twenty minutes past 7 this…
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A destructive fire broke out at a quarter to 8 O'clock this morning, in the warehouse of Messrs. J. A. Bull and Co., wholesale grocers, Clarence-Street. The alarm was given to the M.F. Brigade…
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A fire occurred on the steamer Rockton last night at the A.S.N. Wharf. One of the non-union hands, with whom the vessel is manned was engaged as lamptrimmer. He…
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A fire which might have resulted very seriously occurred last evening shortly before 7 o'clock on board the steamer Rockton. The flames originated in the lamp locker, but were…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--A fire occurred at Plattsburg early this morning, by which a weatherboard house and its contents were destroyed. The property was owned by a miner…
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A slight outbreak of fire occurred at 6.41 p.m. last evening on the steamship Rockton, lying at the Gratton wharf. Charles Jennings, a lamp trimmer, states that he went into the lamproom about the time mentioned…
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A DESTRUCTIVE fire, and one involving a loss of nearly £2000, occurred in Clarence-street at an early hour this morning, at the establishment of Mr…
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The stores occupied by Messrs. J. A. Dull and Co. wholesale grocers and tea merchants, 172 Clarence-street, were the scene of a disastrous fire yesterday morning. The third floor and contents were totally…
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An outbreak of fire occurred yesterday morning at about a quarter to 8 o'clock at Messrs. J. A. Bull and Co.'s wholesale grocery establishment. 172 Clarence street. The flames…
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Mr. E. Lloyd, president of the Gas-stokers' Union, stated that none of the gas-stokers took part in the hostile display against the free laborers at the Grafton Wharf on Tuesday…
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LONDON, Wednesday.--A fire occurred yesterday in the celebrated Alhambra fortress and palace at Granada, in Spain, causing great damage to the building and its…
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The Alhambra Palace at Granada, in Spain, has been greatly damaged by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Namoi Fire. the Watchman's Story. Later Particulars
THE watchman who did the rounds on the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Co.'s wharf last night, alongside of which the Namoi was lying, states that he, during the…
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