Fire on the Riverina
While the Huddart-Parker liner Riverina was loading at Melbourne on Monday last for the West a fire occurred in her after hold. About 11. o'clock as bag after bag of…
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Destructive Fire at Seville
LONDON, Thursday, 2.45 p. m.—The palace of the Civil Governor of Seville, Spain, has been burnt down, and the archives destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Saturday Night Disturbance. Policeman Fires Two Shots. Three Constables Assaulted
A dairyman named Albert Edgar Shaw, aged 27, was before Mr. Smithers, S.M., at the Glebe Police Court yesterday on four charges. The first was being. drunk at…
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AUCKLAND. Thursday.--American files by the R.M.S. Ventura give particulars of a fire at Baltimore on June 13, Involving the loss of two lives, and damage to the extent of £200,000. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prevention and Extinguishing Fires. Fire or Combustible Materials endangering Buildings
109. Every person who places, or knowingly permits to be placed in any house yard, workshop, out-offices, or other premises, fire,…
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A destructive the occurred on the orchard belonging to Mr. T. R. Moxham, M.P., and his brother, Mr. W. D. Moxham, about mindnight on Tuesday. The…
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Early on Wednesday morning a fire broke out at Messrs. Moxham Brothers' orchard, at Toongabbie, a few miles distant from Parramatta, causing considerable damage. When the blaze was first noticed the buildings…
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Coasting vessels report that an oil fire has been burning for several days in the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles off the Texas coast. The flames cover an area of ten square miles…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in a N.z. Mine. Four Men-entombed
AUCKLAND, Saturday Afternoon.—The Molyneux Coal Company's Mine at Alexandra. South Otago is on fire. Four men are entombed. Three of the men are single while the fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fires on Wool Ships. Question Discussed in New Zealand. Royal Commission Promised. Wellington, July 7
The alarming numner of fires recently on ships carrying wool from New Zealand is attracting considerable attention, more especially since the decision of the London…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mother's Heroism at a Fire. Family of Six Lose Their Lives
A mother fighting with fire and suffocating smoke to save her three little children, and finally sinking to the floor to die with her youngest child clasped to her breast, is the picture…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Krakatoa Terrible Eruption Great Fight Between Fire and Water
One of the most recent eruptions, one of the greatest in the world's history, was that of Krakatoa, which occurred in August. 1883. Krakatoa, aa the English "Illustrated…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in a Coal Mine. Four Men Entombed. River Turned on to Flames. Auckland, N.Z., Saturday Night
A fire, probably caused by an explosion, occurred in the Molyneux Coal Company's mine, Alexandra South, Otago, this morning…
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A fire broke out yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. E. O'Shane, Bay-street, Botany. Portion of the rear part of the building, which was constructed of weatherboard,…
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No. 2 Fire Station, George-street "West, received a call to proceed to Saxton and Binns' timber yard, Blackwattle Bay. Knowing that would in all probability prove…
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At an early hour this morning-- between 3 and 4 o'clock-- a fire broke out in an apartment at the rear of a small four-roomed cottage in Station-street, Mortdale, Hurstville…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Camperdown. Supposed to Be the Work of Tramps
A fire, broke out about half-past 7 o'clock this morning at No. 19 Park-street, Camper down, a six-roomed brick house, with an iron roof. The house was unoccupied, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rough Voyages. the Maroro Loses Her Rudder. Display of St. Elmo's Fire
The little schooner Maroro, the arrival of which at Sydney has been awaited for some time in order that the Marine Court of Inquiry, as well as the Vice-Admiralty, Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rough Voyages. the Maroro Loses Her Rudder. Display of St. Elmo's Fire
The little schooner Maroro, the arrival of which at Sydney has been awaited for some time in order that the Marine Court of Inquiry, as well as the Vice-Admiralty Court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining Disaster. Fire in a Colliery. Four Men Entombed. Wellington (N.z.)
A fire occurred yesterday in the Alexandra Coal Company's mine at Alexandra, Otago. Four miners—Samuel Churchill, William King, Michael Keane, and Archibald Bruce—were…
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