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The inquest relative to the fire at Phillips's re-freshment shop, Newtown, on the morning of April 16, was resumed Monday at Newtown. before the, Deputy City Coroner (Mr. W. T. Pinhey,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances surrounding a fire which broke out on April 16 last, on promises known an No. 152 King-street, Newtown, and occupied by Mr. Phillips, was concluded yesterday at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- A fire, surrounded by suspicious circumstances, occurred on Saturday evening, last in an unoccupied house at Footscray. A tinful of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire, attended by what the police consider to be very suspicious circumstances, occurred at Leichhardt yesterday morning in a house occupied by Mrs. M. Wood, a widow, and owned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the arrival of the steamer Rockton we are in possession of late Fiji news. On April 13 a serious fire broke out in the box manufactory of Mr. C. Hennings. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Allenson, a clerk, 50 years of age, arrested by Senior-constable Orr and Constable Wilson on suspicion of having caused the fire which occurred in a dwelling-house at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A letter has been received by Mr. Hugh Taylor, H.P., informing him, in reply to personal representations, that the Premier has approved of the payment of a sum of £1000 as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although experience in war may not improve the strategy of the great masters of war, it is of infinite us to all ranks. In the first place, it enables a man to gauge his own nerve, and to have it appraised by others…
Continued on Trove, page 1037 →THE premises occupied by Messrs. Lewis and Whitty, importers, at 287 Clarence-street, were discovered to be on fire at 2.15 this morning, and the alarm having been given,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, May 11.— Terrible fires are reported to have broken out in the vast forests of Central Michigan, in the United States, and it is stated that over 130 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BROKEN-HILL, Monday.--Shortly after 2 o'clock on Sunday morning a fire broke out in the warehouse belonging to David W. Murray, situated in a lane running paralle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Despatches from New York give particulars of disastrous forest fires in Central Michigan in the United States. The flames are extending rapidly, and the towns of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, May 12.—A train, carrying 100 men to assist in extinguishing the forest fires in Michigan, was wrecked on the way. The train, caught fire from the burning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William Allanson was yesterday charged at the Central Police Court, with maliciously setting fire to a dwelling-house in Redmond-street, Leichhardt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A terrible catastrophe has occurred in connection with the fearful forest fires now devastating Central Michigan, in the United States of America. It seems that a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News is to hand that very widespread and destructive forest area are rtiging in the central portions of the State of Miohigun, United States…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some little time since complaints were rife as to the manner in which the Volunteer Fire Brigade station at Darlington was utilised, and the way in which its members conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GLEN INNES, Wednesday.—Mr. Josephson's cottage was burnt to the ground on Tuesday night about 8 o'clock. The fire brigade was very prompt in turning out, but owing to a false report that it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some alarm was caused between 11 and 12 o'clock yesterday on the discovery of a fire at the gasworks, Redfern railway station. Some gas-tar was being boiled in a retort, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NORMANTON, Thursday.--A most disastrous fire occurred at 1.30 this morning, the following business premises being burnt to the ground:--B. J. Magee, Simons and Co.,…
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