Fighting the Fires
At 2.55 a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in Mr. J. J. Eastman's cordial factory, in Wolfram Street, a carpenter's ben[?] being destroyed. The outbreak was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1908
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Fire Brigade Board Meeting
A meeting of the Fire Brigade Board was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The Mayor presided over a good attendance. Messrs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at South Broken Hill
Just before midnight an alarm of fire was received from South Broken Hill. The outbreak occurred in a fourroomed wood and iron house situate in…
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The necessity for the establishment of a branch fire station at Railway Town, has long been apparent. And a more striking exemplitation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Roma Bore. Flame Still Raging. Nightly Roar Terrific. Brisbane
No new developments are reported with regard to the fire at the Roma bore. The flow of gas is undimiuished and the flames are still raging. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Austrian Arsenal. London
A serious fire which occurred at the arsennal at Kornenburg to-day destroyed the equipment of the Austrian military telegraphic service. It is supposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Shepparton Railway Station. Melbourne
A fire occurred at the Shepparton Railway Station this morning. The parcels office and stationmaster's and porters' rooms were demolished. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempted Assassination. Bengali Tries to Stab Lieutenant-Governor During A Lecture. Revolver Missed Fire. London
Within a few days of the formal publication of a personal letter from the King-Emperor, intended to pacify this discontented in India, another crime of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anarchist Propaganda in India. Lieutenant Governor's Life in Peril. Bengali Youth Shoots and Misses Fire. a Serious Situation. [Reuter's Message.] London
As Professor Burton, of Chicago University was about to give a lecture last night in Overtown Hall, Northern Calcutta, a Bengal youth, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chimney on Fire
At about 9 o'clock last night the chimney of a house occupied by Mr. J. Hamilton, in Berly Street, became ignited. Some baby's food was in course…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at the South
Shaortly after 8 o'clock last night, the mines' whistles sounded the alarm of fire for the South. The confiagration was discovered in a five roomed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Broken Hill Fire
Last-night at about 8.30 o'clock the South Broken Hill Fire. Brigade, in charge of fireman M. J. Re[?]dy, received a call to a five-roomed house at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Printery. Adelaide, Wednesday Night
A fire broke out this morning in the printing premises of G. C. Gurr, of Poultney Street. Only the office-fittings were destroyed, and slight damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Roma Bore Fire. Another Marked Change. Brisbane
Another marked change has been manifested in connection with the fire at the Roma hore. Yesterday a thick column of water, apparently boiling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires. a Gippsland Scheme. Melbourne
Working bees have been initiated at Foster (Gippsland) for the purpose of raising funds for the excavation of an underground room for school children…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Sydney Fire. Leather Warehouse Damaged. Melbourne
Johnson and Son's leather warehouse, Sydney, was severely damaged by fire early this morning. The factory is a four-storey building,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Child Burnt to Death. Pulls Wood From the Fire. Enveloped in Flames. Adelaide
A fatal burning accident occurred at Smithfield yesterday. Mrs. Morphett left her infant son playing in the kitchen. Hearing the child scream she…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maori Mother's Cruelact Throws Her Child Into a Fire. Child Struggles Out Screaming in Agony. Mother Puts It Bagk Again. Woman and Her Husband Charged with Murder. Sentence Deferred. Auckland
An extraordinary case was heard in the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday, when two Maoris (man and wife) were charged with murdering…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman's World. a Fire Alarm
"Give us this day our daily and nightly fire," I'hear one irreverent [?]ffer remark, as we all scramble out on the balcony to find out where the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Sydney Fire. Leather Warehouse Damaged. Melbourne
Johnson and Son's leather warehouse Sydney, was severely damaged by fire carly this morning. The factory is a four-storey building,…
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