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At 3 o'clock yesterday morning the Lake Macquarie passenger steamer Maggie Johnson, which was lying at Cockle Creek, was seen to be on fire, and before tho outbreak was got under damage…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The chambers of the E.S.A. Bank have narrowly escaped destruction by fire. Mr. Thomas Prosser, who occupies portion of the building, was bottling some carbon, when he dropped the bottle and the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Shortly before 9 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in a greengrocer's shop occupied by T. Mortensen at 210 Parramatta-road, Petersham. The flames quickly spread to the adjoining shop,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A piece of money is wrapped in a strip of muslin and tied with thread, as shown in figure. I hold the coin wrapped in muslin near a burning candle. But—too [?]ad…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →A fire occurred in Little Fotheringham-street, Marrickville, about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, by which a brick cottage of 5 rooms was destroyed. It was occupied by Mr. E. Mason and owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WELLINGTON, Friday.--A fire occurred at Store Creek, a small village 36 miles from Wellington, this morning, when a six-roomed wooden building, together with nearly the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. and Mrs. James Granger have very kindly interested themselves in the case of Mrs. Brooks, who bad the misfortune to be burnt completely out of home lest week. As…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortly before 9 o'cloc yesterday morning a fire broke out in a two-storey shop and dwelling in Parramatta-road, Petersham, occupied by T. Mortensen, greengrocer. The Marrickville branch…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE programme In Connection with the above baud’s concert-is sow being issued. It contains some capital items ; and as the performers are well…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When the prison at Bucharest, Roumania, was on fire, six hundred prisoners threw themselves at the iron doors to get away from a the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another of Sydney's good old legal outrages was perpetrated at the Central Court on Tuesday morning, when Anton Emil Andersen, a Finnish mariner, was fined £3 or two months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, June 28.—A great fire has occurred in the heart of Capetown. The offices of the South African Mutual Assurance Society. Fletcher and Company,importers, Dix and Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Jas. Granger, of May's-hill, has been instrumental, with the assistance of Messrs. A. Buchanan and D. Mills, in raising a sum of money for the relief of Mrs. Brooks and her two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A huge fire occurred in the heart of Capetown yesterday. The buildings of the South African Mutual Insurance Company and the offices of Fletcher Dix and other firms were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A huge fire occurred in the heart of Capetown yesterday. The buildings of the South African Mutual Insurance Co. and the offices of Fletcher Dix and other firms, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.--A huge conflagration has taken place in the very heart of the city of Capetown. As a result the premises occupied by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The R.M.S. Miowera, having on board the American niails, arrived in port yesterday, and brings news of the ship Fannie Kerr, which was deserted in mid-ocean .with her cargo of coal on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Later advices regarding the disastrous fire at Capetown by which great destruction was wrought in the heart of the city state that the outbreak was caused by the ignition of…
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