Airmen Discover Fires
A survey of the work accomplished by the airplanes sent north and south by Colonel B. K. Yount from March Field, Riverside, during the period…
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Fires & bushfires, 1921
624 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 32
Fighting Forest Fires. How California Does It. Look-out Men Aloft
California's playgrounds are largely within the National Forests. These forests extend in an almost unbroken line along the Sierra Nevadas, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in a Wheat Stack. Young
An inquiry was held at Young into the outbreak of fire in wheat stacks at Weedallian siding, when 200 bags of wheat were destroyed and 500 more damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Maroubra Some Narrow Escapes. £4000 Damage Done. Sydney
Three houses were destroyed by fire at Maroubra early this morning. The outbreak originated in a cottage occupied by Robert Mead, his wife and three children,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire-proofing Cotton
A process has been devised for treating baled cotton with a chemical compound which renders it flame and spark proof and at the same time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Week–end Fires. Incendiarism on Farms. London
The week–end was marked by a series of incendiary farm on the northern outskirts of London and in Northumberland, which are attributed to Sinn Feinism. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bombs and Fires. Week-end Outrages in Ireland and England. London, Saturday Night
While Parnell-street, Dublin, was crowded on Saturday, three bombs were thrown at a motor carrying Crown forces Two of the occupants…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Auckland. a Convent Destroyed. Sydney
St. Joseph's Convent, Auckland, was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. The Sisters rescued all the inmates. A man…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Destructive Fire. 1000 Houses Burned at Tokio. New York
A message from Tokio states that a thousand houses were burned in the populous quarter of the city. Five thousand people are homeless. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tokio Fires. 150 Injured. New York
A Tokio message states that, as a result of the disastrous fire, previously cabled, in which a thousand houses were destroyed, 150 people were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Weincott's. and Mr. Weingott's Death. the Coroner's Inquiries. Sydney
A fire in the premises of S. Weingott and Sons, clothing manufacturers, Sussex street, in December last was inquired into by the Coroner to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pussyfoots in India. Raids on Liquor Shops. Police Fire on Mob. Delhi
There has been a recurrence of the disturbances at Nagpur in connection with the so-called temperance movement. Liquor shops were raided on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Weingott Fire. City Coroner's Inquiry. Some Interesting Evidence. Kerosene Plentiful. Deliberate Arson. Sydney, Tuesday Night
A fire on the premises of Messrs. Weingott and Sons, clothing manufacturers, in Sussex-street, Sydney, in December last, was the subject of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tokio's Great Fire. Glow Seen a Hundred Miles Away
Further particulars of the great fire in Tokio state that the whole city was in peril. The flames destroyed a thousand house in the Totsuya…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Lithgow
A fire in the order department at the Lithgow Co-operative Society 's stores caused damage to goods valued to the amount of £1,500…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barque Gutted by Fire
The report has reached Sydney that the barque Antiope, one of the best-known Australian traders, has been gutted by fire in Portuguese East Africa, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in a Cordial Factory
Potter's cordial factory in Harris street, Ultimo, was severely damaged by fire last night. The lower of two floors were burnt out at midnight to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seventeen Men in Peril. Fire on Launch at Sea
Seventeen men narrowly escaped death one night during the holidays, when the engine-room of a launch they were in burst into flames half a mile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burglary at Leichhardt. Thief Secures £200. the House Set on Fire. Sydney
A thief forced a window of the house of Mrs. K. Barratt, of Leichhardt, at 9 o'clock last night, blew open a small safe with gelignite, and stole £200. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney's Safebreakers. Terrific Explosion in Private House. Building Set on Fire. Sydney, Friday Evening
Thieves blew open the safe in a private house at Leichhardt last night with such force that the explosion was heard at some distance. The building…
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