Great Fire at New Orleans
LONDON, Monday, 3.10 p.m.—A great fire has occurred at the Stuyvesant Docks, New Orleans (US.), the terminus of the Illinois Central Railroad…
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Victoria. Careless Use of Fire. Melbourne
At the Landsborough Police Court Elizabeth Burwood was charged with the careless use of fire at Barkly on or about December 31, 1904. The Bench sentenced the accused,…
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A great fire has occurred at Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.A. Eighteen blocks of buildings, including three churches, were burnt…
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Superintendent Webb and his men effected a good save this morning. They were balled out a little before half-past 1 o'clock to Cormack's Cooperage in Lackey-street, Darling…
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LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--An immense conflagration at Hotsprings, Arkansas (U.S.A.), has resulted in the destruction of 18 blocks of buildings, including three…
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A popular concert will be given at the Town-hall on Saturday evening next, in aid of the Bush Fires Relief Fund. The Enmore Choral Society, winners of the recent champion choral…
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At a meeting of the concert committee, held yesterday, it was announced by the hon. secretaries that the Enmore Choral Society, winners of Paling's championship cup, Balmain Eisteddfod, 1905, had…
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Considerable damage with done to the residence and furniture of Mr. Claude Stanley Wilson, Pitt-street, Parramatta, by a fire which occurred there on Monday…
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A destructive fire has occurred on Mr. Henry Cobb's farm near Ganmain. After work had been concluded for the night everything in the barn, where the men had been…
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Much valuable time was lost at the fire in Pitt-street on Monday night, through the firemen not knowing the location of the fire hydrants, and when they did find…
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Shortly before half-past, one a.m. yesterday a fire broke our in Cormack's Cooperage, Lackey-street, Darling Harbor. The outbreak was confined to the first floor. Detachments of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Bonfire Blaze. Hot Coppers at the Glebe. an Assault Charge
Constable John Brosnan, a burly representative of the Boys of the Blue, figured as prosecutor in connection with a peculiar charge at the Quarter Sessions yesterday…
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LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--A fire at the Stuyvesant docks, at the terminus of the Illinois Central Railroad in New Orleans, has done damage to the extent of…
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The Prime Minister, Mr. G. H. Reid, has signified his intention of being present at the concert to be given in the Sydney Town Hall on Saturday evening next, in aid of the Bush Fires…
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Mr. Moses's drapery shop, Flinders-street, Townsville, together with its contents, was destroyed by fire early on Tuesday morning. The building was the property of the estate…
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Yesterday afternoon a fire was discovered…
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Robert Collin Hall was to-day sentenced to three years' hard labour for maliciously setting fire to a crop of grass…
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During the early hours of yesterday morning an outbreak of fire was discovered on board the French barque Marguerite Dollfus, lying below Garden Island. The vessel…
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"Dogger Bank" writes:—The committee, in Bending out as they do receipts for contributions in under-stamped envelopes, on which, the recipient has to pay an additional penny fine…
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The most important business that came before the Bush Fires Relief Fund executive at its weekly meeting yesterday was a proposal in favour of the Government…
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