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1,240 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 62
About 4 o'clock yesterday morning the town was startled by an alarm of fire, when it soon became apparent that the Commercial Hotel was the scene of the conflagration. A large crowd congregated, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →YOUNG, Saturday.—A bush fire started on Christmas Day on Rutherford's Top Lagoon Station, about 30 miles from Young, and was carried on by a high westerly wind, destroying…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush fires broke out last night on Buckingbong, Midgeon, and North Yanco runs. These fires are still raging. All hands from the respective homesteads are out fighting back the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out at the grounds of the Carmelite Convent at Randwick on Friday. Close to the water there is what appears to have been an old [?] dated tannery, which is almost concealed from view…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WAGGA WAGGA, Monday.--At 10 o'clock on Boxing Night the town was startled by the clanging of the fire bells. A small stable in Newtown was found to be on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A report has been received that on Saturday evening the roof of a railway carriage, fall of passengers attached to a train from Warrnambool was discovered on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A destructive fire occurred in Townsville yesterday afternoon at the bulk stores of Messrs. A. Shaw and Co., Denham street. The damage is roughly estimated at £6000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By a fire til Normanton on Friday O'Shauglinessy's two story hotel was completely demolished with the adjoining shops…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A very suspicious fire occurred in a shop and dwelling in Hunnell-street, William, tenanted by a baker named Michael Cassidy. The flames were quickly suppressed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A despatch from China states that the China Navigation Co.'s steamship Shanghai has been destroyed by fire off Wuhu. The scene was of the most terrible description…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YOUNG, Monday.—News has come to hand of a number of destructive bush fires having taken place on Christmas Day. At Mr. W. Rutherford's Milong run which is situated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YOUNG, Monday.--Particulars have reached here of destructive bush fires on Christmas Day. One broke out at Mr. W. Rutherford's Milong Run. about 15 miles from Young, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Monday.--A destructive are occurred at Townsville yesterday afternoon, at the bulk stores of Alfred Shaw and Co., ironmongers. The damage is roughly estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Tuesday. -- Notwithstanding the prevalence of comparatively cool weather bush fires are becoming almost of daily occurrence in the plains district. On Sunday fires had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From the time of the fire on Christmas Day, 1889, when a large and valuable amount of property was destroyed at the wharfs of the Tasmanian, Union, and Clarence and Richmond River Steam…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A mysterious lira broke out at 5 o'clock this morning in a two- storied brick store and shop in Little Bourke-street, near Swimston-street. The grouudfloor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A fire, concerning the origin of which some mystery appears to attach, took place early yesterday morning in a two-storied brick store and shop in Little…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An examination of the barque Ranee, at Dunedin, which had to be scuttled after taking fire, shows that the damage by the explosion of gun cotton is very extensive. There are holes in some of the plates, and it is expected that 20 of them…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, December 30.—Intense excitement has been caused by the outbreak of an enormous and fearfully destructive fire in a huge block of buildings, largely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A tremendous bush fire occurred on the Bogan, and several selectors were burnt out, about 2000 sheep being destroyed. Dandaloo, Tabratong, and Tyrie stations were wholly or partly burnt out. The fire was 30…
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