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LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--An outbreak of Are occurred on the ship Frankistan, bound from Newcastle (N.S.W.) to San Francisco, and the vessel was abandoned on April 4 in lat. 38deg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A three--storey brick building in George-street West, occupied by H. G. Levy and Company, household furnishers, was the scene of a fire yesterday. Several detachments of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly after 1 yesterday afternoon the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to attend a fire in George-street West. On arriving at the place, which is occupied by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early this morning a fire was discovered in the underground workings of the Burwood Colliery. The outbreak was noticed before the miners had gone down, and they therefore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Southern New Zealand papers just to hand give the following particulars of the supposed murder of Mrs. Sinnott, at Allanton, near Dunedin. on March 25: THE NEW VICE-CHANCELUOR OP THE SYDNEY UNIVERSITY…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire, caused while lighting up the window, took place yesterday evening at Mr. C. G. Hatte's, 294 King-street, Newtown. Mr. Hatte's employees and a detachment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday afternoon a fire occurred in one of the shop-windows of the business premises of Mr. C. G. Hatte, importer, King-street, Newtown. After the gas in the window had been lighted about dusk,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—The officials at the Burwood Colliery reported this morning that the fire which occurred in the pit yesterday had been successfully got under, and that the mine was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steam collier [?]laroo, which is lying at Parbury's Wharf, on the western side of Miller's Point, was discovered to be on fire at about 1.30 e.m. on Monday. Fortunately, however, the…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →ON account of the inclemency of the weather on Sunday last, the programme to have been rendered by the Rockdale Fire Brigade Band in “Shady Nook,”…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At about half-past 3 o'clock this afternoon the fire brigades were called to the premises of Messrs. Parsons Brothers and Company, coffee and spice merchants, 321 to 327 Kent-street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NYNGAN, Saturday Afternoon.—A big fire broke out at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the lower town, which is principally occupied by Chinese. Four dwellings have been burnt down, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. John C. Hume, of Bank-street, Chippendale, has invented and patented a fire escape, the working of which he explained by means of a model to a number of gentlemen at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The names of the firm affected by the outbreak are: Messrs. Gordon, Marr, and Company, iron-foundry, etc; W. W. Campbell, furniture manufacturer, etc.; W. Carlaw, timber merchant;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New York newspapers declare that £20,000,000 was squandered on antiquated transports, fraudulent commissions, and supplies for troops at the Philippines…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Thursday Afternoon. -- General Jacob Smith has admitted before the Philippines Commission in New York that he ordered his troops to fire on 300 Filipinos…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At about half-past 5 o'clock this afternoon a disastrous fire broke out at Pyrmont, and in less than half an hour five or six large buildings, covering almost an entire block, had been swept…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A destructive fire broke out last evening at about 5 o'clock in a block of buildings facing Miller-street, near the intersection of Harris-street, Pyrmont…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →About 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon a fire broke out upon premises situated at 321 to 327 Kent-street, occupied by Messrs. Parsons Brothers and Co., carrying on business there as coffee and spice…
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