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The Postal Department notifies that the newspaper and packet portions, of the mails received on Friday from New Zealand by the steamer Manuka were damaged by water. Some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROKEN-HILL, Saturday.--Rumors concerning the appearance of tin Block 11 fire in the bottom of the open cut at the Proprietary have been current for tho past few days, and in order…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Mahonga Station, near Urnna, an ingenious device is arranged to locate the exact position of a bush fire, and it has proved infallible. During the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →WHITTON, Tuesday.— A big fire broke out on South Gogelderie Station yesterday, burning nearly the whole of the back part of the run, and travelling on to North Yance and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday, just as Messrs. Mills and Woodhouse were about to start stripping at Baldery, one of the men at work threw down a match, and the grass was soon ablaze. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A weatherboard building occupied by Mr. J. R. Wilson, at Bomaderry, opposite the railway station, was totally destroyed by fire at 4.30 this morning. Mr. James Shepherd's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MOLONG, Monday.--The isolation ward at the Molong Hospital was burned to the ground last night. The origin of the, fire is unknown. The building has not been in use for the past two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Last night a fire broke out in the infections ward of the hospital building, which was destroyed. It was a calm night, so that little difficulty was evperienced in saving the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"The fire brigade service of Sydney is not adequate. If a fire broke out under a given set of circumstances--in a heavy westerly wind following on a succession of dry days--it would…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WHITTON, Tuesday.— A big fire broke out on South Gogelderie Station yesterday, burning nearly the whole of the back part of the run, and travelling on to North Yanco and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHITTON, Wednesday.— The fire on Gogeldire Station was checked on the North Gogeldrie and Yanco boundaries, and is now burning along the Lake Cudgellico and whitton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHITTON, Tuesday.--A bush fire started yesterday afternoon three miles from Whitton. The wind from the south carried it on to Bynya and North Gogeldrie and Yanco. The wind is now…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly after 8.30 a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Burt and Sims, wool-testers, 28 Jamleson-street, city. A detachment of the M.F.B, attended, but…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The inadequacy of the fire-fighting appliances of Sydney to cope with that great conflagration which, though it has not happened, is a continuous possibility has long…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--Superintendent Webb's statement in yesterday's "Daily Telegraph" will, no doubt, be highly commended (and deservedly so) by the community. It does not, however, require such…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Most of the cargo of the New York steamer Irish Monarch, which was damaged by the fire on board, was landed at Melbourne, There is, however, still a quantity on board damaged by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At the magisterial inquiry to-day regarding the recent bush fire at Cudgelo, a verdict was returned that the fire had been wilfully caused by some person unknown. The damago do [?]e…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A farmer named David Brieh, about five miles of here, lost 200 tons of [?]ay in a stack yesterday by fire, theo origin of which is13 unknown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Jack the Firebug" has been at work again (reports a New York correspondent on Dec. 13). Last night he set fire to nine tenements on the west side of New York, and in every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The outbreak of fire In the city was got under control on the same night as it occurred. The fire is now almost extinguished…
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