Haymarket Fire Follows Explosion Masks Used by Firemen. Sydney
Considerable damage was caused by fire, at Pierce's mercery shop, Haymarket, last night The outbreak was preceded by an explosion, and when the firemen…
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Fires & bushfires, 1929
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£300,000 DAMAGE Fire in Melbourne Payne's Bon Marche Burnt Adjoining Buildings Suffer. Melbourne
The most disastrous fire experienced in Melbourne for some years occurred this morning, with the result that Payne's Bon Marche, a big drapery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams Flour Mill Fire. Sydney
An outbreak of fire was discovered at the flour mills of John Darling and Sons, Rhodes. The flames were extinguished after the flour and other material, valued…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£150,000 Fire Business Centre Almost Wiped Out. Vancouver
A message from Edmonton (Alberta), says that practically the entire business section of the oil town of Wainwright, 125 miles east of Edmonton, was destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams Fire at a Marist College. Sydney
The whole of the recently erected wing of the Marist Brothers' training college at Mirtagong was desiroyed by fire shortly before midnight. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →OVER 500 Out of Work Result of Melbourne Fire. Melbourne
About 529 persons have been thrown out. of employment as the result of the destruction by fire of Payne's emporium. The manager addressed them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigades Recent Art Union £265,000 for Charities Grafton's Quota, £1035711. SYDNEY
The State Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair, to-day presented the cheques to the representatives of various hospitals and ambulances, as the result of the allocation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Melbourne Fire. Melbourne
The lengthy list of fires was added to to-night by a conflagration at a two storied building in Flinders street. The first floor was occupied by the Celluloid…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cold Storage Fire Accident to Fireman. Sydney
A fire occurred at 10.30 this morning at the Metropolitan lee Cold Storage Company's premises, in Har is street, city. The brigades were speedily on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kent Fire Inquest on Victims Something Went Wrong "Lives Should Not Be Risked." London
"I first realised that lives were endangered when I saw shavings alight on the ground floor. I shouted, "That fire has gone wrong; get it out. Put…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cockroaches and Fire
Cockroaches were ike cause o£ a file uulbieuk ai Xaree last Sunday aiiernoun. a iiouscuouier, it appeals, was spraymg me wans of his home…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Glassworks. Sydney
Considerable damage was caused by a fire which broke out at the Silverite Glass Coy's premises, Parramatta road, Camperdown, to-night. The building is of two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Steam Laundry Safeblowers Suspected. Newcastle
Safeblowers are believed to have been responsible for a fire which did considerable damage at the Hamilton Central Steam Laundry early this morning. After…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Theatre Show Went On--audience Did Not Know. Sydney
The audience at the Haymarket Theatre late yesterday afternoon were not aware that the electric lights near the roof had fused and that dense…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Goulburn Fire Two Young Men Wanted Boarding House Keeper's Narrow Escape. Goulburn
Following on the destruction of Mrs. Northam's boarding house by fire early yesterday morning, the police have commenced an intensive search for two young…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fierce Blaze Sensational City Fire Scene at the Ambassadors Dancers Rush Into Street. Sydney
A sensational lire broke out shortly before midnight in MacNaught's shoe store, Pitt street. Sergeant Conlin said he could have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£40,000 Damage by Melbourne Fire. Melbourne
Messrs. Collier and Sons warehouse, was partly destroyed by fire last night. The damage was estimated at £40,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£20,000 Damage Two Queensland Fires. Brisbane
Damage amounting to £20,000 was caused by two Queensland Hires last night, one at Wertheium, Ltd., piano warehouse, which destroyed a number of pianos,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£24,000 Worth of Wine Destroyed in N.Z. Fire. Auckland
Stocks of wine valued at £24,000 were destroyed by a fire at Mount St. Mary's Mission, Greenmeadows. The fire was caused by the fusing of an electric wire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Naval Explosion the Devonshire Tragedy Caused by Hand Fire of Short Duration. London
The Admiralty announces that it has been ascertained the cause of the recent gun accident in the cruiser Devonshire, when seventeen were killed, is attributed…
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