Caretaker's Escape From Fire
SYDNEY, Saturday.— Edgar Hard castle, caretaker of a six-storied building in Kent Street,.City was trapped by fire on the roof of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
260 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 13
Early Morning Blaze Sad Plight Of Local Family
When he was awakened by the crying of a child with the toothache Mr. John Francis Charles Slater, of 342 Williams Lane, found his house on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sun Sets Girl's Hat On Fire LONDON, June 7
While a girl was walking in Hyde Park this afternoon a straw hat that she was wearing caught alight. The sun was very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launch on Fire; Man Swims Ashore
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Paul Guglen walked into the Port Kembla Police, Station last night and said he had swum 150 yards to shore from a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Runs Amok with Rifle Man Fires Shots Auckland (N.z.), June 22
RUNNING amok with a rifle and threatening to shoot anyone who went near the convent, a man aged 32 years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News In Brief Boys Attempt To Fire Building
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday. It is reported that during disturbances at the Wcraroa Boys Training Farm near Levin, several attempts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Calls
At 12.27 p.m. today the Central Fire Brigade received a call through the local exchancd to the Pirie Dining Rooms in Argent. Street, where a kitchen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Million Pounds Damage Caused by London Fire Many People Have Narrowescapes; No Loss of Life (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, June 27
DAMAGE estimated at a million pounds was caused to-night by a fire in the heart of London. The possibility that it was started by Irish Republican Army terrorists is being investigated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Methods Of Lighting Fires Used In Other
FIRE lighting need not be irksome. To get a fire going quickly does not mean you need a tremendous lot of sticks or fire lighters. Here is the way housewives overseas manage it often with minimum of effort:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mysterious Origin of Hangar Fire
BRISBANE, Friday.—Mystery surrounds the origin of the fire which destroyed six aeroplanes in a hangar at Archerfield Aerodrome on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire At Japanese Consul's Home
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police are investigating a fire which broke out last night in the basement of the home of the Japanese Consul in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trapped by Fire
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An elderly woman was trapped in a flat when a fire caused by spontaneous combustion broke out at the rear of a produce…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girls Start Fire at Melbourne Store
SYDNEY, Monday.—Two girls, aged nine and six respectively, confessed that they had been responsible for a fire which caused slight damage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →5 Dead; 26 Hurt In Fire On Ship Mystery on Narkunda (Special to "The Miner") COLOMBO, July 17
SPONTANEOUS combustion is believed to have caused the fire aboard the Narkunda yesterday Police and P. & O, authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Narkuunda Mystery Fire Survivors Tell of Blinding Flash 15 of Crew Still Detained in Hospital (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, July 16
HOW he saw a mass of debris hurled high in the air by the mysterious explosion which caused the deaths of five men and injured 26 others aboard the P. & O. liner, Narkunda, was told by Chief Officer Tompkin, says…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£8000 Damage in Fire
BRISBANE, Friday.— A fire causing estimated damage of £8000, broken out in the main street at Boonah yesterday. Three premises were destroyed and three others damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forced to Fire at N.g. Native
PORT MORESBY, Saturday— Ivan Champion, a district officer was forced to injure fatally a native during a patrol of the Kagua Valley. Champion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Fire at Hospital Narrow Escape Of Many Patients
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday. WHEN a fire struck Southland Hospital at Invercargill early this morning 130 patients, some in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman Resues Children From Fire SYDNEY
WHEN a fire broke out in a house in Howman Street Pyrmont, this morning the cries of a three-months-old baby gave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Allegedly Set Fire to Father's Shop Albury
THE District Coroner yesterday committed Frederick Norman Schaefer (37) for trial on a charge of having maliciously set fire to a…
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