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Extensive bush fires are raging in the neighbourhood of Wellington, and vessels making for the harbour experience great difficulty in picking up the entrance owing to the thick smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WELLINGTON, Friday.--Strong gales in the Forty-mile Bush have fanned the bush fires into activity, with disastrous results. The flames are sweeping over a large tract of country…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.-Telegrams are being constantly received from the Gippsland district staing that the bush fires are raging with unabated fury. Many hundreds of settlers have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir.--The article on the above subject, which appeared in "The Daily Telegraph" on the 12th inst., although interesting, is scarcely accurate. Permit me to observe that water does not put out…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An outbreak of fire, which resulted in the destruction of four shops in Bayley-street, occurred in the very early hours of yesterday morning. The conflagration started in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Metropolitan Fire Brigade authorities have, in accordance with their usual custom, compiled a return showing the outbreaks of fires in Sydney and suburbs during 1897. The total number of alarms…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Another outbreak of fire occurred on the Adelaide Steamship Co.'s steamer Innamincka about midnight on Thursday. The vessel was undergoing repair for injuries received in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COOLGARDIE, Friday.--A fire occurred at midnight last night in Bayley-street, between Rennon and Ford streets, when four shops were destroyed before the flames could be subdued…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire which broke out on the morning of the 7th-instant spread to three of the steamers used in the Balmain Sydney ferry service and belonging to the New Balmain Company caused…
Continued on Trove, page 129 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.-Scarcely had the fire which broke out in the hold of the Adelaide Steamship Company's stamer Innamincka yesterday morning been extinguished when a second…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The adjustment of claims in connection with the Flinders-street fire will entail the payment of £700,000. Certain insurances falling in will make another sum of £100,000. This, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coroner and his jury took a deal of evidence on Friday last in the matter of the fire at Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The adjustment of claims arising out of the disastrous fire in Flinders street and Flinderslane in November last is now approaching completion. The first estimate of the loss to the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Shortly before midnight last night a fire broke out in the hold of the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Innamincka, which lies in Duke's dry dock…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—It is a great pity, in my opinion, that the Australian Fire Co. referred to in your last issue should be absorbed by any company whose headquarters are abroad. It will result, I fear, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A great fire occurred in Bayley-street, last night. Four shops next to Faahan's hotel were burnt down. The fire brigade arrived on the scene rather late, but did [?] work in preventing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The New Balmain Ferry Company are heavy pufferers by a fire which broke out early on January 7 at the Bald Rock Ferry Wharf, alongside which its fleet of steamers were moored…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →The Jewin-street fire was the biggest which London has seen since 1666. The district, affected may be seen from the bird's-cye view which our artist has sketched from the gallery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BUSH fires devasted many parts of Gippslands (Victoria) during the week. There were some sensational escapes. A remarkable incident is related from Waragal. The road…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Fifty families Have been rendered homeless, and many are dependent on the charity of more fortunate neighbors. Some have been 20 years on the land,…
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