Fire and Robbery
While the Bogan Road mail was on its return journey to Parke on Friday afternoon. and was near Mr. T. A. Quinn's, it suddenly look fire, and was…
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Fires & bushfires, 1928
253 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 5 of 13
Local and General “Cause Fires.”
“Fifty per cent, of the fires in standing crops are caused by insurance agents inducing farmers to over-insure,” said the President of the…
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A fire broke out in a seven roomed brick cottage in Underwood Street this morning at one o'clock, and the building was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires. the Alectown Case
A bush fire case of great interest to all farmers and graziers, especially to those who suffered loss from the fires which broke out near Aleetown West…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners wrote to "Council on Thursday night, stating that tenders had been invited for the erection of a new fire station…
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Although a reward of £100 has been on offer by the Government for two months for information that will to the apprehension and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Fire at Holmwood Residence and Contents Completely Destroyed. Occupants Save Only the Clothing They Were Wearing
On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Albert Alford of Holmwood was on the tennis court giving her children a party when she noticed smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires the Alectown Case Resume of the Evidence
The action, Woods, v. Railway Commissioners, a claim for £4885 for damage caused by the bush fires which occurred on December 10th, 1926, was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Midnight Fire Was It the Work of Thieves?
A fire occurred about midnight on Tuesday the scene being a house on the Molong Road (Lower Clarinda Street). The premises are the o…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Shooting Affray Householder Fires on Intruders Two in Hospital (By Wire) Sydney
Four shots were fired by a resident, of Sophia Street Surry Hills, late last night, at a party of men who forced an entry into his home and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Put Turps on Dog Then Set It On Fire "Fiendish Cruelty" says Magistrate The Garema Case
"This is the most fiendish thing I have ever dealt with in cases of cruelty to animals," said Mr. A. E. Arnold, P.M., yesterday, at the Forbes Police Court, when Victor B. Drabsche and William J. Shaw were convicted of cruelly ill- treating a dog…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£12,000 DAMAGE Fire in Workshop (By Wire) Sydney
Damage estimated at between £10,000 and 12,000 was caused by a fire which partially destroyed the main workshop at the premises of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Science Notes & News. The Sun and the Fire
The idea that the sun puts out a fire is a very popular one, but practically a fallacy. Like most popular fallacies, however, it…
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At the Courthouse yesterday an inquiry was opened by the Coroner, Mr. James Swann, into the fire which occurred on the hight of 22nd May, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Power House Fire
A number of questions enclosed in a letter from Mr. A. Head, of Nashville, were read to the aldermen. Firstly, he asked why a new road had been…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Disastrous Fire Damage Estimated £2,000 Bacon-Curing Factory Gutted Early Morning Blaze
A disastrous fire broke out in F. A. Heinke's bacon-curing factory in South Forbes, at 6.50 o'clock yesterday morning, and the building was practically gutted. The structure was a new one, recently erected at a cost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Current Topics Electric Fire Alarms
Alderman Crippin, at last night's Council meeting, said a number of country towns were equipped with electric fire alarms. As Forbes was…
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The District Coroner, Mr. James Swann, held an inquiry last Thursday afternoon into the destruction, by fire, of six stacks of wheaten and oaten hay…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Molong Road Fire Finding of Incendiarism. Bain Committed for Trial
An inquiry into the recent fire at the residence of Thomas Alexander Bain, on the Molong Road, was opened by the District Coroner, Mr. James…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Country Fires Two Committals
At the end of an inquiry into the fire which occurred in a cottage on Molong road, on the night of May 22, the Parkes Coroner found that it had been…
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