City Fire Extinguished
A fire was discovered last night in the premises of Horwood & Co., O'Connell-street, city, but was quickly extinguished. The fire had evidently…
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Fires & bushfires, 1916
53 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 3
New Man-killing Weapons. German Liquid Fire Shells
The "Matin" says:—The Germans have introduced a new weapon against the British troops, consisting of liquid fire shells, which explode in the air…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Fires
Two fires occurred in New South Head road, at Rose Bay, about four o'clock this morning in houses next door to one another. Some furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Bowraville Blaze. an Early Morning Call
At an early hour on Monday morning last, the townspeople in Bowraville were aroused by the alarm of fire, and very soon the place was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Bowraville
A disastrous fire occurred at Bowraville early on Monday morning last. The premises of W. Tuck (storekeeper), Derrett (chemist), Kennedy (fruiterer),…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Sydney Fire
A fire broke out in Baxter's restaurant, in George-street South, this morning. The whole back part of the building was gutted, the inmates escaping…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Disastrous Fire. BOWRAVILLE
On Monday morning a fire broke out in the stores of Mr. W. J. Tuck, in High-street. It continued to spread for about 80 yards north and south,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women Farmers Under Fire
The French people (says an officer at the front) have started their harvest, and, my word! how the women do work. From dawn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Weeks of Shell Fire
In a footnote to some of his recent cables, Capt .C. B. W. Bean says that for six weeks the Australian troops have stood up against shell fire as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fleet Opens Fire. London
The Athens correspondent of the "Dally Chronicle" states that many wore killed and wounded in the Zappelon Building. The Greeks on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canadian Forest Fires. 200 Lives Lost and Four Towns Destroyed
According to Reuter Canadian despatches the towns of Cochrane, Matheson, Mushka Station and Timmins, in northern Ontario, have been destroyed by forest fires…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Demonstration
On Thursday evening last a demonstration of the Minimax hand fire exting[?]sher was given on the vacant allotment near the sale yards,…
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