Clothes on Fire. Woman Severely Burned
Mrs. M'Laurin, of Bradley-street, Goulburn, was cleaning a dress with benzine when the spirit became ignited, and set alight to her clothes…
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Fires & bushfires, 1927
911 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 42 of 46
Paxton Fire. Pipe Line Workers Affected Cessnock
A fire at Paxton yesterday destroyed tools of Water Board employees engaged in the Paxton pipeline…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Factory Gutted. Big Fire in Sydney. £50,000 Damage. Sydney
A fire which gutted the two top floors of W. E. Smith's, Ltd., factory at Chippendale caused damage estimated at £50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another Fire
Somewhere about three o'clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out in the old cottage known as French's Boarding House, in King Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Fire Station
Mr. Jim Musgrove, who has the contract for building the new fire station is now nearing the end of the excavation work. The building…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade Practice
The local Fire Brigade had a practice one night last week at Mr. Bert. Copus' house. The fire engine was placed near the underground well…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Abermain Fire Engine
Mr. Bioth, M.L.A., has been informed by Mr. T. G. Smith, M.L.C., Chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners, that the fire engine…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire on Railway Bridge
About 7.45 p.m. on Tuesday a fire was discovered in the central girder of a bridge about a quarter of a mile from Abermain Railway Station…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire in Bakery. a Bexley Outbreak. Sydney
A fire which broke out in White's bakery at Bexley curly thin morning did damage estimated at £2000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Princess Mary. Exciting Time. in Mansion Fire. Aroused From Bed. London, November 9
Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles, had an exciting escape at 5 o'clock this morning, when an outbreak of fire occurred at Bretton Hall,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire Near Melbourne
The contents of Johnson's huge furniture factory in Fitzroy, Melbourne, went up in a spectacular blaze on Wednesday night. The damage is estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire at Tamworth. Undertaker's Heavy Loss
About 9 o'clock on 3rd inst the founding of the fire alarm in Tamworth attracted a crowd of several hundreds to the residence of Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Bretton Hall Royalty's Exciting Escape
London, Thursday.—Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles, had an exciting escape from an outbreak of fire at Bretton Hall, near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Fire. Three-roomed Cottage Destroyed. Cessnock
Fire destroyed a three-roomed weatherboard cottage, occupied by Thos. York, Sergeant-street, Cessnock, at 4.30 this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire. Outbreak at Richmond. Families' Narrow Escapes. Melbourne
'A fire which occurred at Richmond at midnight last night destroyed the Austral Mammoth Incubator factory, the Buruley timber mill, and two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Factory Gutted. Big Fire in Sydney. £50,000 Damage. Sydney
A fire which gutted the two top floors of W. E. Smith's, Ltd., factory at Chippendale caused damage estimated at £50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Early Morning Blaze Cottage Burnt at West Cessnock
In the early hours of Saturday morning a weatherboard cottage, occupied by Mr. Thomas York, Sergeant street, West Cessnock, and owned to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fire Menace
In the south-western portion of the municipality, near the lower end of Sydney Street, on an allotment where a sawmill was worked for years, is a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Brigade Criticised
The president of Tarro Shire Council reported at council's meeting to-day, that because the Kurri Kurri Fire Brigade had not been notified…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Sea. Reported From Cape Borda
Captain D. Gransbury, the Deputy Director of Navigation at Adelaide, has received a message from the head keeper of Borda lighthouse,…
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