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A fire, attended by terribly fatal results, occurred at Benton Harbour. A theatre there took fife, and while the brigades were endeavouring to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred last night at the residence of Mrs. Julia Nicholson, Arden-street, Coogee. A back room on the ground floor with contents suffered severely from fire and water. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HILLSTON, Wednesday. - A fire occurred about 2 o'clock this morning, by which the premises situated in High-street and occupied by Mr. John Donley were totally destroyed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly after 9 p.m. yesterday a lire broke out at the residence of Dr. Shiriow, Wycombe-road, Neutral Bay. It was caused by the explosion of gas in the front bedroom, to which portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred about 2 o'clock this morning by which the promises in High-street, occupied by Mr. John Donley, were totally destroyed. The origin of the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The theatre at Bonton Harbour, in Michigan, United States, has been destroyed by fire. The walls of the building fell, and 11…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HILLSTON, Wednesday.--A destructive fire occurred in High-street this morning about 2 o'clock, when a wooden building, occupied by Mr. John Donley, carpenter, as a dwelling, and by Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out about 7 o'clock last night in one of the upper rooms of the Great Western Hotel, Fitzroy street. The apartment in which the outbreak occurred was locked at the time,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →About 7 o'clock last evening smoke was observed issuing from a window on the second floor of the Great Western Hotel, Fitzroy-street. Upon opening the door of the room it was found to be full…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A four-roomed house at Strathfield, occupied by Mr. Bagnall, together with the contents, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The children in the house were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Rookwood Fire Brigade entertained at a friendly gathering at the Royal Oak Hotel, on Monday, Mr. David Thompson, one of their members, who left later (on Wednesday) for…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →According to a report from San Francisco, dated July 31, another fire has occurred on board the four-masted barque Cedarbank. She had discharged part of her cargo from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire, resulting in the total destruction of a cottage and serious damage to another adjoining, broke out at Strathfield last night. The outbreak was occasioned by the explosion of a kerosene…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following—from the pen of John Marshall F.R.S.—should be carefully conned by every reader of the FREE PRESS and its lesson practically…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two young men, John Cowpe and Thomas Payne, were before the Water Police Court this morning charged, the former with the robbery of £200 worth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY, at 2.30, a fire broke out in Glen-street, Marrickville, in a house occupied by George Francis Stewart, van proprietor, a four-roomed weatherboard building. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—An old patent, almost forgotten, for this is 22lb sulphuric acid, mixed with 32lb lime, would yield about 50 cubic feet of carbon dioxide gas, impregnating from 90 to 120ft of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A bush fire occurred in the gully at Bellevue Hill and spread rapidly towards Scots' College yesterday. It reached the southern boundary of the…
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