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During the extensive fire at the seed and grain warehouses at Blackfriars many thousands of rats, forming a black mass, left the burning buildings and crossed the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The West Wnllsend miners met Mr.Farley, the manager of the Seaham and West Wallsend collieries, yesterday, and at M. Farley's request the West Wallsend miners agreed to take one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The situation of affairs at Seaham colliery is unchanged. Nothing, of course, can be known as to the course of the fire in the workings,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As the steamer Katoomba made fast at the Lime-street wharf yesterday, direct from the New Hebrides, she was boarded by a score or more fruit and island produce merchants all eager to learn…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE more important events of the Spring are beginning to draw nearer, and the prospects of Cup horses especially is a matter which is agitating many, people…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Reports from Nanaugo state that the town is completely encircled by bush fires, and the little food which was left for cattle after eight months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--At 2.30 this morning a fire--the most serious in Newcastle for many years--broke out in the premises of Messrs. Caunington and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The weather is still extremely hot, and high westerly winds have started the bush fires again. Dense smoke surrounds the town, making the sun look like a red ball…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BODALLA, Wednesday.--Bush fires are very prevalent owing to the dry westerly gale. GRAFTON, Wednesday.--There is a thick…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush fires are still burning fiercely for miles around the district. The fire broke out again this morning at the show ground, and the fence caught fire. To save the pavilion and the grand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAFTON, Thursday.—A cottage occupied by Mr. Richards and family, in Fry-street, next to the Wesleyan Parsonage, was with its contents totally destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LIVERPOOL. Thursday.—Bush fires continue to burn around'the district, and at Mount Misery about two miles of'bush I was destroyed, the fire carrying everything…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about five minutes to 4 this morning a fire broke out in a stable at Gerard-street, North Sydney, used by G. Pennyworth and owned by Mr. Rodgers, of Blue's Point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAFTON, Wednesday.--This afternoon a cottage owned by Mr. P. Emert, and occupied by Mr. Richards and family, next to the Wesleyan parsonage, Fry-street, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A public meeting was held last night for the purpose of taking steps to relieve the sufferers by the recent disastrous fire, several of whom have been rendered utterly destitute. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About half-past 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in Bolton-street, Newcastle, resulting in the total destruction of the Federal Printing Company's premises, stock, and machinery, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, August 28.—The fire which broke out in the P. and 0. Company's R.M.S. Rome was confined to the cold chamber in No. 3 hold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fire which broke out in the P. and 0. Company's R.M.S. Rome was confined to the cold chamber of No. 3 hold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day only a few light columns of smoke were rising from the disturbed neck of ironstone in the south-west corner of Harry Quarry on Block 11, and a little steam like vapour is coming from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--The latest developments in connection with the fire at Block 11 have caused some alarm alike in Broken-hill and in the various capitals. Mr…
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