Poking Fires for a Living
The trades of London are many and some of them may seem to you to be very strange. One occupation by which a score of Britons are…
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Fires & bushfires, 1913
88 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 5
Fire Brigade Sports
This annual event, held on New Years' Day, proved as popular as ever. Mr. H. D. Morton sent a trophy, and also an apology for non-attendance…
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During the thunderstorm on thursday afternoon lightning fused the telephone wires at the Aberfeldy post office, Victoria. The Window of the…
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THE Mayor (Ald. O'Halloran) presided over the Fire Brigade Sports Committee meeting which was held at the Central Fire Station on Tuesday night last, and…
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A valuable experiment is to be carried out in the near future by the chief of the Dusseldorf fire brigade. Its object is to determine…
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A valuable experiment is to be carried out in the near future by the chief of the Dusseldorf fire brigade. Its object is to determine "scientifically"…
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The extensive timber yard of Messrs. D. Flatman and Sons, of St. Kilda (Melbourne) was completely destroyed by fire last night…
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Bush fires are doing very considerable damage in Victoria. A train on the Noe-Walhalla railway line had to plunge through the…
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Six business places situated in the precincts of the Palace Theatre and the Palace Hotel, Brisbane, have been destroyed by fire. The damage…
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Bush fires are raging in many of the suburban localities near Sydney, but no serious damage is reported…
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Bush fires are still raging in Victoria. The Monbulk settlement consisting of 20 houses, a State school, Mechanics' Institute, and several…
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The Bellingen Chamber of Commerce placed before the Council a complaint that stock were allowed to stray in the streets and they asked to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire. Captain Merrett's Residence Destroyed
THE residence of Captain F. W. Merrett, the popular skipper of the steamer Macquarie, situated near the Windmill Hill, East Port Macquarie, was completely destroyed by fire at a late hour on…
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An amusing practical joke has Just been perpetrated in a Continental club. A member hurt his finger, and, not wishing to consult his own…
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The whole town of Bilbao, Spain, has been plunged into meurning by a terrible cinematograph hall disaster in which about 50 lives were lost, the…
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The Mosque of St. Sophia is threatened by a fire which is raging in Constantinople…
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At the Police Court to-day Edgar Albert Edmunds, aged 22, was charged with having maliciously set fire to a house in Oxford-street…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Northern Territory. Prof. Gilruth "Going to Blaze the Track."
Professor Gilruth, the new Administrator of the Northern Territory, speaking in Sydney prior to his departure for Darwin, said that whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Distraction of Captain Merrett's Cottage by Fire. Coroner's Inquiry
ON the 14th inst. the District Coroner, F. Hayward, Esq., J.P., held an inquiry as to the cause of the recent fire at Captain Merrett's residence, whereby his cottage and…
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A big bush fire occurred at Bankstown yesterday. Over 300 acres of scrub were burned and two miles of fencing destroyed. Many houses…
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