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During the extreme heat of Saturday a very extensive bush fire occurred on the southern outskirts of the town, destroying in its course a cottage inhabited and owned by a miner named Shields…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE. Tuesday.--A fire broke out in the cabin of the schooner Louise Hassell at 9 o'clock last evening, but it was extinguished without doing much damage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle, Tuesday.—Shortly after 9 o'clock on Monday evening a fire broke out in the cabin of the schooner Louisa Hassell, which is lying under No. 3 hydraulic crane. All hands were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Considerabls excitement prevailed here yesternoon when the news was spread that the Public school teacher"s kitchen and storeroom were on fire. Mr. D. Brooks, sen., was up Webb's Creek when he first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOLLOWING close on the heels of the disastrous outbreak of the fire fiend which devoured one of the finest blocks of buildings in the Southern Hemisphere to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE fire this morning is still burning, and although the firemen have had throughout the night numberless hoses playing upon the flames and the surrounding buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YASS, Wednesday.--Mr. J. Hind's house at The Gap, between Gunning and Yass, was destroyed by fire on Saturday while the family were at the woolshed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--A fire broke out in the cabin of the schooner Louise Hassell at 9 o'clock last evening, but it was extinguished without doing much damage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BOURKE, Tuesday.--News has just been received in town of a disastrous lire at the Tinchelooka bore, 75 miles from Bourke, on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Caro, of Joachim…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Water Police Court before Mr. Lee, S.M., to-day, John Henry Parry, 37, contractor; and Arthur Inwood, 38, were charged with behaving in a riotous manner in Wentworth-street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fire brigades worked systematically and well in order to protect the fire engines from being scorched, which was rendered very probable by reason of their nearness to the flames; large squares of galvamsed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The first intimation of the outbreak was received by the Metropoliten Fire Brigade at 8.43 p.m. The call was received at the recently-established northern station through No. 5 fire-alarm box, which is situated at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The fire originated in a shed containing kerosene in bond, stored by Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and quickly spread to some timber stacked just behind. The greater part of the latter was saved by the arrival of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An untenanted house on the Peninsula was burnt to the ground last night. A quantity of bay in the building was consumed. The local fire engine was promptly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The new central fire brigade station will be opened in a few days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About half-past 9 last night smoke was observed on board the schooner Louisa M[?]seil, lying at the dyke. All the crew had been ashore, and when they returned a fire was discovered in the ma[?]e's cabin. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Following upon the late disastrous city confiagration, a fire broke out last night in the kerosene bond shed on Dibbo's Wharf, Miller's Point, and destroyed goods and property to the value of about £20,000. The shed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another very disastrous fire has to be reported, this time at what is generally known as Dibbs' Wharf, Millers Point. The fire originated in a shed, which has for some time past been used…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire which at first bade fair to equal if not to exceed in extent the recent disastrous fire in the heart of the city broke out last evening at Gibbs, Bright and Co.'s wharf, Miller's Point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I never doubted the result of the late Botany Handicap after I saw Dick Noonan run on the first day of the race, and tipped him in our last issue, but I hardly expected…
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