Fire Epidemic Lismore
A haystack, the property of Mr. Elliott, a milk vendor, was destroyed by fire this morning. This is the third fire within a week, two cottages being also demolished…
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Suburban Fires. Gas Explosion at Manly. Cottage Destroyed at Karemburn
A gas explosion took place at the Steyne Hotel, Manly, shortly before half-past 8 o'clock on Friday night. Harold Delaney, the barman, noticed a smell of gas from a parlor at the…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--A fire occurred lata last night in a huge eight-stored building, at the corner of Queen-street and Flinders-lane, known as Broken-hill-chambers…
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Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning an unoccupied weatherboard house, containing five rooms, in Central-street, Naremburn, near Willoughby, was totally destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire in High Building. Rushes Up Lift Well
A fire occurred at Broken Hill-chambers, a large nine-storied building in Queen-street, city, at a late hour to-night. The flames started at the bottom of the luggage lift shaft at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Black Opal Fields. Royalty and Liquid Fire Opal. New Find of Precious Stone. Collarenebri
Matters at the Lighting Ridge opal fields are now quiet. There are about 300 men on the field, and fully that many have loft it to go shearing, most of whom will return…
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At 2.20 a.m. on Saturday, an unoccupied five-roomed weatherboard cottage in Contral-street, Willoughby, owned by Miss Page, of Willoughby, caught fire, and was…
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CAMPBELLTOWN, Monday.— A disastrous fire Occurred here yesterday morning, when the shop occupied by Mr. W. F. Wisbey, at the corner of Queen and Lithgow streets, was almost gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Melbourne Fire. a Man Injured
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The cause of the fire at Broken-hill-chambers on Friday night has not been definitely ascertained, but it is believed that some electric wires in tho goods lift…
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A fire was discovered shortly after i o'clock this morning on Messrs. Howard Smith and Company's Wharf. Sussex-street, near King-street, city. The alarm was communicated to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Swept by Flame British Columbian Fort Destroyed a Bush Fire's Spoil Seventy Killed and Thousands Homeless London, Monday, 3.5 p.m
Seventy persons Rilled, one hundred injured, and £250,000 worth of property destroyed—such is some of the dreadful havoc, wrought by a bush fire with which Fernie…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires at Ryde. Angling for a Brigade
The recent references in the "Evening News" to the need for the establishment of a properly equipped and efficiently officered fire brigade within the municipality of Ryde have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Early Morning Fire. at Howard Smith's Wharf
The M.F.B. received a call at 8 minutes past 4 yesterday morning to a fire at Messrs. Howard Smith's wharf, off Sussex-street. On arrival it was found that a quantity of chaff on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire on a Wharf. Tons of Chaff Destroyed
Early yesterday morning, while the wind was blowing a gale and heavy rain was falling, smoke was noticed issuing from a stack of chaff on a wharf abutting on Sussex-street, occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Normanhurst Court. Lord Brassey's Country Seat Suffers
LONDON, Monday.--A fire, which originated in the kitchen on Sunday afternoon, destroyed the eastern part of Normanhurst Court, Lord Brassey's country seat, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Cable News. Received To-day. Great, Bosh Fires. a Town Destroyed. Seventy Persons Killed
LONDON, Monday Evening.—A bush fire has destroyed the town of Fernie, British Columbia. Seventy of the residents were killed and 100 injured, and 5000 are homeless…
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There is a warning to Australia in the great bush fire which the cable reports as raging in the Kootenay district of British Columbia. It is estimated that 800 lives…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in the City. Small Blaze at Redfern
A fire was discovered shortly before 1 o'clock this morning on the second floor of a building in Clarence-street, near Erskine-street, city, occupied by S. Gordon and Sons, shirt…
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LOCKHART, Tuesday.--Two uotbreaks of fire occurred in Lindsey's butcher's shop, Lockhart last week, but were got under before much damage had been done. The first fire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Terrible Bush Fire. Holocaust in British Columbia. Eight Hundred Lives Lost. Conflagration Still Raging. Kootenay Valley in Ruins
LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--A bush fire has destroyed the town of Fernie, British Columbia. Seventy of the residents were killed and…
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