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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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Marposa, one of the transports chartered by the Imperial Government, arrived at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, recently, with 5000 tons of hay for the British Government. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The underwriters yesterday received news that a fire had broken out among the cargo of the sailing ship America at Capetown. The fire was in the vessel's forehold, and the pumps were set…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. H. Wilshire, S.M., John Arthur Donnelly (28), a storeman, and Robert M'Ewin (26) laborer, were placed in the dock charged, with burglariously breaking and entering…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire broke out at about half-past 11 o'clock on Sunday morning at No. 1 plant of the Mount Lyell smelters. It is supposed to have started in the old blow room at the south end of the plant, from where…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CAMP NORTH OP BRANDFORT, May 8.—After the relief of Wepener, which came at a most opportune moment, as the beleagured garrison was becoming exhausted, the scene of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For those who go clown to the sea in ships, and particularly those who are engaged in the coal-carrying trade, the report of the Royal Commission appointed to conduct experiments as to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Encouraged, perhaps, by the success which has attended the municipal authorities of Willoughby and Mosman in their efforts to obtain the erection of local brandies of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the Pymble Progress…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A report laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, giving the result of the experiments conducted by the Royal Commission, consisting of Professor Threlfall and Mr. A. E…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ORANGE, Tuesday.--A case was heard in the Police Court to-day, by the police magistrate, in which the relative status of a sergeant of police and a captain of a fire brigade was the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →QUEENSTOWN (TAS.), Tuesday.--An important and of wolfram ore is announced from the vicinity of Pieman Heads. Mr. J. Findon, manager of the Black Cat property, owned by a Queenstown syndicate, reports that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Letters by the Australasian from South Africa [?] accounts of a fire on board the ship America, which is listed for Newcastle to load for the West Coat of South America. The ship caught fire at Table Bay on the 26th…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The western markets in Hunter-street West were the scene of a destructive fire shortly before noon to-day. The fire broke out very suddenly, It Is said, amongst some produce…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire occurred at High-street, Concord, whereby a four-roomed cottage, owned by Mr. Frederick Myers, and occupied by Mr. Thomas Ftlzgibbon, was totally destroyed. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Northward from an Australian city, and hidden from seaward view by high wooded bluffs and green belts of dense, wind-swept scrub, there lies one of the oldest and qua[?]ntest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NARRANDERA, Thursday.—A fire occurred early this morning at Mr. E. G. Adams's butchery establishment, East-street, adjoining Reid's Criterion Hotel. Fortunately the buildings were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-night a fire broke out at Williamstown which resulted in the destruction of three shops and their contents, and the partial destruction of a fourth. The shops destroyed were a tailor's, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A small outbreakk of fire occurred at an early hour this morning on beard the America ship Invincible, moored in the stram a breast of the Custom-house, Happears that some spa[?]rsnfrom the cook's galley…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →JONES ISLAND, Thursday.--The residence of Mr. Alex. Gibson was destroyed yesterday afternoon by fire. A stiff westerly wind was blowing at the time, and it caused the flames to spread…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The western markets in Hunter-street West were the scene of a destructive fire shortly before noon today. The the broke out very suddenly. It is said, amongst some produce…
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