The Great Fire at Salonica. Enormous Devastation
An English correspondent tells the first connected story or the frightful fire that devastated salonica recently. Some excerpts from his report:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1918
51 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 3
Playing with Fire
"Except it might be, from motives of convenience, I wouldn't marry any man myself!" acidly remarked Miss Foxley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Mountain View
Saturday night, about 8.30, Central Kempsey was startled by the fire alarm bell, and sixty seconds inter Mr. Jos T. Walker left for West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Hardwoods. Cheap Durable, Fire Resisting
Though there has been most groundless prejudice against them in the past, there are signs that Australian hardwoods are about to come in to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Fire of Turf
In summer time I foot the turf And lay the sods to dry, South wind and lark's song and the sun far up in the sky…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Bush Fires
"PEACE develops heroes as well as war," was the comment of Councillor Abbott, Mayor of Bendigo, on his return from a motor car trip to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in a Nunnery
IT is feared that 100 lives have been lost through a fire in the Grey Nunnery, Montreal. Thirty-eight chaired bodies of children have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Indian's Fire
If it is not unduly cold, an Indian will light a large fire and warm the earth, then rake away the coals and lie down and pull his blanket over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For the Fire-fighter
No longer will the fear of being overcome by poisonous gases or struck on the head by falling objects be entertained in the minds of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Y.M.C.A. and the Home Fires
D.G.M. forwards us a communication, in which he says: "The gravest danger which our boys face in this war is not death, great as is their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Bowraville Fire
Mr. Engineer Hunnings, in his report submitted to last Council meeting, staled that the sanitary depot at Bowraville had been partially…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Fire
Shortly before 10 o'clock on Friday morning last a fire broke out in the power-house of the Fitzroy Hotel, Coff's Harbor, resulting in the building being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Liquid Fire
Describing in the "Dally Mall" some of the leading incidents in our advance, Mr. W. Beach Thomas says: We have seen victory in all its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire
A large shed--50 x 22--togther with between 30 and 40 tons of hay--was destroyed by f[?] on Mr. H. A. Abbott's farm, below The Brush early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Hose on Passengers
A REMARKABLE incident is reported from Kingstown, Dublin, a hose being played on a crowd of people who tried to get on board the mail steamer for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Kempsey Fire Station
Tenders are invited for the removal of Fire Station in Elbow-street, West Kempsey, to site in Elbow-street on property owned by Mrs. M. Rock; also…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Cables Reciprocal Artillery Fire Sir Douglas Haig reports
We raided in the neighborhood of Gavielle, taking a few prisoners. There is reciprocal artillery fire on the Somme and in the Ancre Valleys…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General. Fire Station Removed
On Wednesday the fire nation at Elbow-street, West Kempsey, was removed to a new site on Mrs. Rock's property in West Kempsey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Central
About 2 o'clock on Sunday morning last Mr. and Mrs. T. Wooderson were awakened to find their Smith-street residence full of smoke, and a hurried…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Kempsey. — Hairdresser's Shop and Saloon Gutted
In the early hours of Monday morning a fire occurred in the premises occupied by Mr. T. H. Wooderson, hairdresser, Central Kempsey, as a result…
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