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The relations between the Government and the Chief Commissioner for Railways—the existence of which has been denied—formed a theme for comment by Mr. Wade, M.L.A., the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →LONDON, Tuesday.--A disastrous gasometer explosion occurred at [?]keston, Derbyshire, yesterday. Owing, it is believed, to the pressure of water…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Monday Evening.--A fire of a serious nature broke out on the battleship Caesar, 16 guns, 14,900 tons, Captain Price Vaughan Lewes, while at Devonport…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Grim want, painful starvation, acute suffering, follow in the train of the war. Hundreds of thousands arc homeless--it is winter now in China--many were burnt to death when…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →NEW YORK. Tuesday Evening.—A sensational fire occurred in the commercial centre of the city to-day. The outbreak took place in the premises…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A bush fire on Westbourne and Dumblans, in the Barcaldine district, destroyed 5000 acres of grass, but no other damage was done. The loss of sheep at Burenda and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LISMORE, Wednesday.--A destructive fire occurred this afternoon on Hospital-hill, and resulted in the loss of two handsome villa residences. The fire started in the house of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →ADELONG, Wednesday.--Residents of the town were startled at 1 o'clock this morning by on alarm of fire, which originated in a dwelling at the eastern end of Tumut-street on the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →LONDON. Wednesday Evening.—Emily Devi[?] the suffreagette who caused a sensation is London by putting lighted rags soaked with [?] into letter boxes, has been [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire occurred at Postman's Ridge, near Lismore, when the residences of Mr. P. G. Best, solicitor, and Mr. C. H. Dalgiell, dentist, were totally destroyed. Both families…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Messrs. David Fell and Co representatives and attorneys of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of U.S. have received the following cable from New York:—"Equitable building…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At the Rochester Court to-day, William M'Tavish was charged with having, on December 7, left a fire unextinguished at Bamawm, whoreby 1500 acres of grass and crop…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire originated in premises occupied by Mr. William Workman and family, Tumutstreet. The family were absent in Gundagai. The premises and the contents were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire broke out early to-day in Thomas' s upholstering factory, George-street. Fitzroy. It had been burning, some time before the alarm was given, and on the arrival of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A nine-story marble building occupied by the Equitable Life Assurance Society and other great commercial corporations was destroyed by fire to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NEW YORK, Wednesday Evening.—Additional particulars of the disastroun fire at the Equitable Assurance Society's building on Tuesday night shows that six lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Although the fire at the Equitable Assurance Society's building has been completely extinguished the work of searching the ruins cannot yet be proceeded with owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEW YORK. Tuesday Evening.--A disastrous fire, the damage caused by which exceeds £1,000,006, besides involving loss of human, life, occurred to-day, destroying the building…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The fire brigades were kept busy to-day putting out bush fires, but there was no damage beyond the destruction of a few acres of bush and grass. One fire at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WAGGA, Thursday.--A fire broke out suddenly, from some cause unknown, on Wednesday afternoon in a field where harvesting was proceeding on the farm of Mr. J. H. Kendall, near…
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