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A terrible mistake occurred at Durban one evening recently at a fire display by the Durban Fire Brigade and seamen of H.M.S. Hermes. The display concluded with the destruction by…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →At 8.30 this morning a fire broke out in a wicker factory, belonging to Messrs. Wiese and Varcoe, in Eliza-street, city. A three storey building was burnt out. No…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A fatal fire occurred at Ashburton, Canterbury. The outbreak occurred in premises occupied by Mr. Zouch, dentist. Mr. Zouch, two assistants, and a servant girl escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Late last afternoon some would-be jocular person set a lighted match to a boy of 13 who had wrapped himself in paper flags and decorations, with the result that the child is…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →One of the various attractions during Fleet Week, was a Grand Band Concert, which was held at the Sports Ground, Sydney, and was one of the biggest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Oil City" well in Boryslaw, which was set on fire by lightning on July 4, was still burning furiously when the last European mail left, and seemed likely to do so for an indefinite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire occurred in Haileyville coalmine, Oklahoma (U.S.A.), and it is believed 30 miners have been suffocated. Twenty-six bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →LONDON, Friday Evening.-A fire in the main shaft of the Shawfield Mine, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, demolished the pithead framework buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The death is announced from India, as having taken place at Quetta, in his 52od year, of Colonel William St. Lucien Chase, V.C. He served in the Afghan war, taking part in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very disastrous fire occurred last month at an electrical laboratory in Buda Pesth (Hungary) in which over 200 workmen were employed. Owing to the highly-inflammable nature of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Friday. -- The premises of Messrs Weise and Varcoe, wickerworn makers, in Eliza-street -- a narrow thoroughfare between Franklin and Waymout streets -- were burnt this…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The lives of many miners at the Stanfield Colliery, in Lanarkshire, were seriously imperilled yesterday by a fire at the mine. The outbreak occurred in the main shaft,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the residence of Mr. Frederick Adams, at Wharf-road. Balmain, was totally destroyed by fire, together with its contents…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out in the Stambond quarter of Constantinople on Sunday, and as night was still burning. Fifteen hundred shops and houses have been…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fire, which broke out in the main shaft of the Shawfield Mine, in Lanarkshire (Scotland), demolished the pithead and the framework of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Scenes of remarkable violence were witnessed this afternoon on the race-course at Spandau, near Berlin, owing to the public resentment at the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A six-roomed cottage in Wharf-road, Balmain, was almost completely destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. The occupier, Mr. Fred. Adams, and his wife were out at the time the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Saturday.--The fire in the Maypole (Lancashire) colliery is still burning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The M.F.B. received a call on Saturday to a fire in a cottage in Wharf-road, Balmain. The house, which was occupied by Mr. Fred. Adams, consists of six rooms, and…
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