Fires
MITTAGONG, Wednesday. -- Yesterday afternoon a cottage owned by a laborer, named George Sharp, was totally destroyed by fire. The family were absent from the…
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A Theatre Panic. Caused by an Alarm of Fire. Men and Children Trampled Under Foot. Twenty-Three Killed and Thirty Injured
Just as the curtain was about to be rung up at the old Front-street Theatre, Baltimore (U.S.), on December 27, a flaming gas-jet near the private boxes startled a…
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ALBURY, Thursday.--Large bush fires have been burning on the Upper Murray during the past low days, and until the wind sprang up to-day all the surrounding…
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The Underwriters' Association at their meeting on Tuesday paid what was a well-earned tribute to the efficiency of the officers and other members of the Metropolitan…
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TEMORA, Thursday.--A house, owned by Mrs. Phillips, and occupied by John Hamilton and his family, was burned to the ground this afternoon, the furniture…
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MOUNT HOPE, Friday.—A fire occurred last night at the dwelling of Mr. Mahberg, at South Mount Hope by which everything was demolished. The place was uninsured…
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The Fire Brigades Board has written to the Strathfield Council in reference to the desired erection of telephone fire alarms, stating that nothing can be done in the matter until the…
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"A lighted match thrown down," a remark which appears in the official report of an outbreak of fire at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, to-day, fortunately did not…
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MELBOURNE, Monday— In the Lancefield district a disastrous bush fire is reported to be raging. The fire originated north of the Dividing Range on Saturday morning, and crossed the…
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MOUNT HOPE, Friday.--A fire occurred last night at the dwelling of Mr. Mahlberg at South Mount Hope. Everything was destroyed. The place was uninsured…
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On Sunday afternoon a fire occurred in a four-roomed cottage, in Crown-street, near Pitt Bow, Parramatta South, occupied by Mr. W. Burton. The alarm…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Tuesday— The mills at Colac Bay belonging to the New Zealand Kauri Pine Company, the largest works of the kind in the South Island of New Zealand, have been…
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About 6 o'clock p.m. on the 30th ultimo a fire broke out on board the four-masted barque Thistlebank, which arrived here from Liverpool recently with a general cargo, the ship being…
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The election of a member of the Fire Brigades' Board to represent the City Municipal Council will be held at the Town Hall on March 9, and for a member for the…
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LAWSON, Saturday.—A large house occupied by Mr. W. Pritchard was totally destroyed by fire at Linden yesterday. Mrs. Pritchard had a spirit lamp alight, which was boiling water for tea…
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ON Sunday. afternoon, as Mr. William Burton, who is employed at Messrs. Goodlet and Smith's brickworks, Merrylands, was engaged at the back of his premises in…
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A destructive fire occurred early this morning, when Messrs. Permewan, Wright, and Co.'s large store was burnt to the ground with its contents. Besides a quantity of general goods the store…
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PARKES, Tuesday— A disastrous fire broke out at 8 o'clock this morning at Blarney's Australian Hotel, which spread at once to the premises of P. Thorne, barber;…
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HAY, Monday— A disastrous fire occurred at 3 o'clock this morning, by which Messrs. Permewan, Wright, and Company's wharf store, wharf, and resident manager's dwelling were…
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