Fire at Figtree
WOLLONGONG, Thursday.-Clarke's Hotel at Figtree, was partially destroyed by fire this morn ing…
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Fires
WOLLONGONG, Thursday.--A fire broke out about 11 o'clock this morning at the Mount Kiera Hotel, Figtree. The outbreak originated in a bedroom on the ground floor through some hangings…
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A fire broke out at Clarke's Mount Keira Hotel, Fig Tree, about 10 o'clock this morning. It appears one of the landlady's sons was ill in bed, and the fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Revolver in Use. Row at Forest Lodge. A Publican Attacked. He is Compelled to Fire in Self- Defence-- A Serious Scrimmage
A serious disturbance, resulting in one of the participants being shot in the hand, took place yesterday evening at about 5 o'clock at the British Lion Hotel, Forest…
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INVERELL, Friday.--A cottage, occupied by Phillip Witzler, jun., near town, was burned with all its contents, this morning, while the family was absent. No clue was received as to the…
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Tilley Gosnell, aged 11 years, who was seriously burnt while successfully earing her little brother Trimmer, aged 19 months, from the disastron fire at Bridge-street, if arrickville, on April 9, had sufficiently…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—A fire broke out in Hall and Savage's drapery shop in Rundle-street last night, but the flames were soon got under by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. The damage is…
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ALBURY, Saturday.-As the Hay to Albury train running between Yambia and Ettamogah, seven, miles out, this morning a tag of chaff on a truck next io the passenger carriages was found to be…
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Out at sea a fire is one of the most appalling experiences of the mariner. Gales, cyclonic storms, and hurricanes have no great terror for him, but to find that his home on the ocean is in the grip of a raging…
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On Wednesday night last, an entertainment was given in the Temperance Hall by Messrs. Reid and Mowbray, and "Little Clara," a child some eight or nine years of…
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At 4 o'clock this morning the Beehive Hotel and a large block of buildings, covering half an acre in Fitzroy-street, were totally gutted by a fire, which apparently commenced in the billiard-room, in the…
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UT "West, among the hills of the Lachlan, I was riding from the town of G—to…
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A destructive fire occurred early this morning at a refreshment shop occupied by John Lowe at Bay-street, Rockdale. The Rockdale Volunteer Brigade received the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Courts. The Kenthurst Fire. Bugler on Trial
At the Parramatta Sessions today before Judge Backhouse, Thomas George Woods Bugler was charged with that be did op April 13 last maliciously. set fire to an unoccupied house at…
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A fire occurred at the premises of Mr. John Lowe, Bay-street. Lady Robinson's Beach, at 2.10 o'clock yesterday morning,' whereby the whole buildings, which had been used as…
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In connection with the fire amongst the coal' cargo of the ship Ellen A. Read, Messrs. G. S. Yuill and Co., the agents, yesterday completed arrangements for the discharge of part of the…
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A cable was received yesterday by Messrs. Joseph I. Falk and Co., from San Francisco, announcing the loss of the barque Centaur, laden with wheat, and bound from San Francisco for…
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LISMORE, Tuesday.--A fire broke out at 2 o'clock this morning, which destroyed two cottages, the property of Mr. Nell Clarke, situated in Little Keene- street. The premises were unoccupied, and were…
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A fire broke out shortly after 2 o'clock this morning in a pantry on the third floor of the Australia Hotel. The alarm was not sent to the M.F.B. at once, as it was hoped that the…
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