Country Fires. a Shop Gutted
ORANGE, Saturday.— Last night about 11.30 the shop of Lawrence and Company, bookbinders, in Summer street was found to be on fire by a passer-by. No person lives on the premises, but…
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The Fire on the Buteshire
It will be in the recollection of many how near the steamer Buteshire was to becoming a total loss by fire when she was out here. Since then her owners, Turnbull, Martin, and Co., sued the Hull Underwriters to recover a…
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ORANGE, Saturday.--A fire occurred shortly before midnight last night in Laurence and Co.'s bookbinding establishment, one of a row of six shops, situated in Summer-street, near the…
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The master of the Russian ship Earl of zetland, on arrival here last night, reported a, sensational fire which occurred on board on May 10. during the passage from London…
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Shortly after 11 o'clock on Tuesday night a fire was discovered on some reclamation works on the Johnstone's Bay side of Glebe Island among some timber which had been stored there by the Health…
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WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.—An exciting incident occurred at the Mai[?]land Hospital on Saturday. A lad was engaged at the scullery fire boiling beeswax and turpentine, when the flames…
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At 11.15 last night a call of fire wea recived through the Glabe exchange by telephone that a twoStory house, No, 186 Pyrment Bridge-road, Forest Lodge, occupied by Mr. Benjamin Cochran, was in…
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The Fire Brigades Board has recently taken over the new fire station in Oxford-street, Paddington, and the engine and horses are new duly installed. The old wooden structure, which…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday afternoon.—A great sensation was caused in the city this morning by an accident to the telephone wires. The line-repairers were fixing the wires near Victoria…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.--A number of workmen were repairing the telephone lines near Victoria Bridge to-day, when one of the telephone wires broke and Cell on one of the overhead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Position Critical at Tientsin. Roman Catholic Chapel Destroyed. Foeeign Settlements Attacked. "Boxers" Met by Russian Artillery. a Muederous Fire. London, June 21
The Foreign Offioo has received a telegram from the Consul at Chefu (Mr. L. C. Hopkins), stating that the "Boxers" had damaged the railway line north of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With Roberts to Pretoria. the Vet River Fight. Colonial Troops in Action Gallantry of New South Wales Men. a Dashing Advance Under Fire
MOUNTED BRIGADE CAMP, six miles south, of Zand River, 8th May. -- The Army is once more on the big trek, making north of Kroonstad, just on the tail of two big Boer commandoes -- those…
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Recollections of Gippsland bushfires were revived to-day. The Crown Solicitor, on behalf of the Railway Department, received 44 summonses from persons claiming damages against the…
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Twenty-one years ago Paddington, like nearly all the suburbs, lacked a fire brigade, and it was only when Loutet's large.grocery estahlishment in Oxford-street was completely gutted that the…
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QUEENSTOWN (Tas.). Monday.— The No.1 smelting plant of the Mount Lyell Company, was found to be on fire on Sunday forenoon. Every effort was made to extinguish the flames, but for a long time…
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Just before noon yesterday a fire was discovered at No. 1 plant of the Mount Lyell smelters. The flames quickly got charge of the whole buildings, and completely destroyed…
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QUEENSTOWN (TAS.), Sunday. -- Soon after 11 o'clock this morning, the people of Queenstown realised, if they never realised before, how greatly the prosperity of the town is at present dependent…
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A fire broke out at about half-past 11 o'clock this morning at No. 1 plant of the Mount Lyell smelters. It is supposed to have started, in the old blowroom at the south end of the plant, from where it spread…
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Shortly before midnight a fire was discovered in the basement of the Church of England Book Depot, 176 Pitt-street. The outbreak originated in a lumber room in the rear of the premises, and the damage was confined…
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