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A Capetown report to hand by the last mail says:— There was considerable excitement in shipping circles on Monday afternoon when it was reported that a ship, too for off to signal from Cape point, was entering False Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SINGLETON, Monday.--The Brisbane mail train from Sydney did not arrive until 1 a.m. to-day, being an hour and a half late. The axle-box became heated, and caused a delay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Monday night a serious fire occurred in Parramatta, the building known as St. John’s Schoolhouse (close to St. John’s Church) being discovered in flames shortly after midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARRAMATTA, Tuesday.—Early this morning a fire broke out in St. John's schoolroom, a weatherboard building. A neighbor noticed the flames before they secured a hold, and at once…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire of a disastrous nature, resulting in many deaths, has occurred at the Chicago World's Fair. The fire was discovered in the building utilised for cold storage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, July 11.—The cold storage, warehouse at the Chicago Exhibition took fire yesterday, and was burnt to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.--Telegrams from New York give particulars of a fire, attended with fearful loss of life, which occurred yesterday in the building devoted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The cold storage warehouse at the Chicago Exhibition has bEen burned down. Twenty-five firemen were killed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The inquiry into the cause of the fire at the furniture warehouse of Messrs. Pyman, Harkness and Co., 99 Clarence- street, was resumed this morning at the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PENRITH, Thureday.—On Wednesday night a wine shop at Mulgoa, lately occupied by Mr. Douglas, waa totally destroyed by fire. The building was unoccupied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WAGGA, Thursday.—The fire bell rang out at half-hour past midnight, when the stables at the residence of Mr. Jag. Gormly, M.L A., were found to be in flames. The fixe brigade arrived quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With reference to the fire at the Chicago Exhibition, by which the New South Wales wine exhibits are reported to have been destroyed, the secretary for the commission (Mr. Cumming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The inquest into the causa of the fire which broke out on the 28th ultimo in a warehouse in Kent and Clarence streets occupied by Messrs. Pyman, Harkness, and Co., was continued before Mr. W. T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquest into the cause of the recent fire at 99 Clarence-street, occupied by Messrs. Pyman, Harkness, and Co. as a furniture warehouse, was continued before Mr. W. T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The last Indian mail brings full details of the loss of the steamer Khiva on her voyage from Bombay to Jeddah, with nearly a thousand pilgrims on board, who were going…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The inquiry into the origin of the fire at the furniture warehouse of Messrs. Pyman, Harkness and Co., 99 Clarence-street, was continued to-day at the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Deputy Coroner Pinhey yesterday at the Central Police Court resumed the inquest into the circumstances attending the fire in Messrs. Pyman, Harkness and Company's furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Robert Storey and James Stewart, elderly man and youth respectively, were charged with having in company stolen a number of razors, strops and other articles, valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ALBURY, Thursday.—The police to-day received intelligence that Fowler's Swamp Hotel, situated some miles from Albury, was completely destroyed by fire last night. The hotel is the property of…
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