Set Fire to Steamer. Boy Immigrant Sent to Reformatory
A young fresh-faced immigrant William Litchford, aged 16½, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court. Brisbane, to setting fire to the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1923
824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 42
Fire at Cessnock. Cessnock "Express" Suffers. Type and Machinery Destroyed. Cessnock
A fire broke out in the offices of the Cessnock General Publishing Company, Ltd., where the Cessnock "Express" is printed, this morning at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Summer Hill Occupants Escape by Back Door. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
One shop was burnt out and four others damaged by a fire which broke out early this morning in a shop occupied by Mrs Mabel poole, at Summer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Kitchener Fire
The coroner, Mr. Geo. Brown, J.P. has decided to hold an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the recent fire at Kitchener, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Small Fire
The clanging of the fire bell on Saturday night, about midnight, disturbed the peaceful quiet of our town.—The brigade turned out, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Fire. House and Contents Destroyed
About 4 a.m. on Friday morning shouts of fire! fire! coupled with numerous shots from a revolver, roused the people in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Brooklyn Fire (Reutuer's Cables.) London, Tuesday Night
A New York message states that 10 firemen were kiled and 30 injured in the collapse of a burning tenement building in Brooklyn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Morpeth
At about 6.40 p.m. last evening an outbreak of fire occurred on the premises of Messrs D. Sim and Sons, ironfounders, Morpeth, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forest Fires in France Troops Called Out. London, August 20
Reuter's Paris correspondent reports that troops were called out at Nice, Grasse. Antihest, and St. Raphael to light a violent forest fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New York Tragedy. Serious Fire. Vancouver, August 31
A message from New York states that ten firemen were killed and 30 injured in the collapse of a burning tenement building at Brooklya early…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Narrowly Averted
Last week-end the kerosene stove at Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Bell's home in Bowling street, Dungog, flared up and flames spread all around…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →President Grant on Fire. Shanghai, August 22
A fire broke out yesterday aboard the liner President Grant, says a message from Tokio. It started in the 6th and 8th holds, and raged fiercely till…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Riviera Fires
Paris, Thursday.—The Riviera fires have been practically extinguished. The damage in the Var department is estimated at thirty-five million francs;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Forest Fires in France Troops Called Out. London, August 20
Reuter's Paris correspondent reports that troops were called out at Nice, Grasse, Antibest, and St. Raphael to light a violent forest fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Plucky Act Averts Big Fire
But for the pluck and promptness of Mr Albert Fairall, the town of Cudal, Molong district, would have been the scene of a destructive fire a few…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New York Tragedy. Serious Fire. Vancouver, August 31
A message from New York states that ten firemen were killed and 30 injured in the collapse of a burning tenement building at Brooklyn early…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Theatre. Damage Only Slight. Cessnock
A fire occurred in the operating-room of the West End Star Theature, West Cessnock, on Saturday evening. The fire was quickly extinguished, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Picture Show. a Mild Sensation. At West Cessnock
In addition to the ordinary thrills billed for the evening's performance those who attended the West End Star Picture Palace had a more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Cessnock
The fireball announced a fire yesterday afternoon, but on arrived of Captain White with the motor at William Street, Cessnock, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Extinguishing Pistol
The risk from fires have been greatly enhanced of late years by the almost general use of petrol for many kinds of transport and for cleaning purposes…
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