Forest Fire in Japan. Sweets 300 Square Miles. Tokio
A terrible forest fire has swept Kitami, the northern portion of Hokkaido (the most northerly of the islands constituting Japan). An area of 300 square miles was…
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S.S. Waimate on Fire. Cargo of Flax Burning. Hopeful of Reaching Port. London
A wireless message has been intercepted from the N.Z. Shipping Company's cargo steamer, Waimate, stating that her cargo of flex is on fire. The vessel is on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unzen, Japan's New Beauty Spot. "The Unknown Fire."
Writing to Messrs Burns Philp and Company, the well-known shipping and tour and travel agents, the manager of the Japan Tourist Bureau, has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer on Fire. Aground with 350 Immigrants. Thursday Island, Mon
The steamer Walpara, from London and Brisbane, with 350 immigrants aboard, has grounded on the Hanalbal Island reef. The Walpara which has a full cargo, left…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Cahgo on Fire. Vessel in Port. London
The ship Elfrisda, 1711 tons has arrived at Bristol with her cargo of wheat on fire. She left Sydney on January 17 for Queenstown with 33,765 large of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bombay's Cotton Fires. Forty Since March 23. LONDON
Another fire occurred at a cotton warehouse yesterday, and 10,000 bales were destroyed. This is the fortieth fire at a cotton warehouse in Bombay since March 23…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Forest Fires in Canada. Many Farmers Lose Homes
ST. JOHN (New Brunswick), Friday. Great Forest fires are threatening the villages along the Candian-Pacific railway in New Branswick. A strip of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams. Fires Aboard Ships. S.S. Waimate Safe. London
A message received from Monte video states that the fire which broke out on board the New Zealand S.S. Company's Waimate, has been extinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Cargo Smouldering. Fire on Elfrinda Obstinate
The ship Elfricda, whose cargo caught fire just after her arrival at Bristol a few days with over 33,000 bags of wheat from Sydney, is still smouldering. Her cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Station on Fire. Immigrants Have Narrow Escapes. New York
Sensational scenes marked the destruction by fire of the Fort street Union Railway Station in Detroit, Michigan, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Insurance Against Fire
A question of considerable importance to holders of fire insurance policies was recently derided by a Now Zealand court. A boarding house which had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World-wide Notes. News From Everywhere. Red Tape and a Fire
A Lille correspondent report a singular incident on the France-Belgian frontier. A fire broke out in a shop at Herseaux, just beyond the…
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The town clerk reported to last night's meeting of the Albury Municipal Council that he had forwarded the following letter to the Board of Fire Commissioners…
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Dear Uncle Jeff, — The weather has been very wet here lately. The railway line is coming up here. There are a great many men working on the line. It will be good…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bombay's Cotton Fires. £20,000 Damage on Thursday. Bombay
Still mother conflagration has to be added to the long list of warehouse fires, which have caused considerable perturbation in trade circles in Bombay during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dead Man Kills a Constable. Suicide Fires a Revolver. Berne
Peasants found the body of a young man who had committed suicide, lying on a forest path near Geneva, in Switzerland. A Browning revolver was clutched in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Angry Crowds Make Trouble. Another Fire Outrage
The public indignation against the Suffragettes led to a number of exciting scenes in various centres yesterday. At Hornsey (Middlesex) a crowd broke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the Men Who Bank the Fires. Trapped in the Stoke Hold. and Is Drowned in Sydney Harbor. Sydney
The North Coast Co.'s steamer Coombar, while leaving Circular Quay this afternoon, cut down a naval cutter containing three men from the submarine A.E. One…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenement House Fire. Seven Dead: Twenty Injured New York
Seven people are dead and over a score injured as the result of a fire in a New York tenement-house early on Wednesday morning. Four women are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire, on S.S. Waimate. Outbreak Subdued. London, June 5
A wireless message received towards the end of last month from the steamer Walmate (560.1 tons) of the New Zealand shipping Company's line, stated that her cargo of flax was on fire. She was…
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