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HOBART (TAS.), Saturday.-Most extensive bush fires are raging around the town, and creating considerable alarm among the residents. The city is overhung with smoke, and the river is invisible…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hobart city is tinder a cloud of smoke from the! extensive bush fires raging in the vicinity. The ashes from the still fiercely burning blaze on Mount Wellington are carried…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bush fires in the vicinity of Hobart are causing much discomfort and disquietude. The city is overhung with smoke, and the river is invisible. A strong north-west wind…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HOBART, Friday.--The atmospheric conditions remain unchanged. At 10 a.m. tho barometer registered 90deg. in the shade. At 2 o'clock the wind veered round from north to west, followed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →There is no end to books for children. Every faculty of the young mind and heart is now catered for in a way which leaves little to be desired. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Early on Christmas morning the firealarm bells sounded in Parramatta. The scene of the outbreak was Mr. P. Long's grocery and produce store, Church-street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Considerable excitement was occasioned in the city shortly after 5 o'clock this evening by an alarm of fire in Wynyard-square. The M.F.B. received the call from Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out in the wheelwright's establishment of Mr. Oswald, senior, last night and resulted in the shop and contents, including two sulkies and two new buggies,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A fire broke out last night at a house in Dixie-street, Bethnal Green, occupied by a family named Jarvis, several of the members of which were engaged in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The coroner's inquiry into the circumstances of the recent great fire in Cripplegate, London, has concluded. An open verdict was returned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—A few weeks ago the business and goodwill of the City Mutual Fire Insurance Company were transferred to the London and Lancashire Fire Company. The directors and manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the meeting of the St. Peters Borough Council on Wednesday night, a letter was read from Mr. W. Taylor, representative of suburban municipalities on the Fire Brigades Board, which was received with much pleasure…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday Night.--The inquiry with regard to the origin aud circumstances of the recent great fire in Cripplegate, London, was concluded yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BUSH fires in the vicinity of Hobart during the week caused much discomfort and disquietude. The city was overhung with smoke and the river invisible. A strong north-west…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A TERRIBLE fire occurred at night at a house in Dixie-street, Bethnal Green, London, a woman named Jarvis and her nine children, ranging in ago from 16 years to 8 months,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A FIRE at Chicago completely destroyed the Coliseum, a gigantic building, in which an exhibtion of manufactures was being held, Nine of the employes were killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Details of the bush fires which began on Mount Wellington on Friday show that the d[?]vastation has been widespread. The flames, rushing down the valley towards the coast, [?]wept miles of country,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HOBART, Monday.-The latest news from Mount Wellington is to the effect that the devastation caused by the bush fires which broke out there on Friday has been most widespread. Miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HOBART, Sunday.-- Bush fires continue throughout the colony with almost unabated fury. At Longley, towards Huon, 22 settlers were entirely burnt out, amongst the premises…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Considerable excitement was occasioned in the city shortly alter 5 o'clock this evening by an alarm of fire in Wynyard-square. The M.F.B. received the call from Constable…
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