Mill Catches Fire
A terrible scene occurred when a large seven-stored flour milleburst into flames. It is feared that many people perished there, but owing to the impossibility of…
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Gasometer on Fire
The most spectacular, but least harmful, incident of the explosion was the Getting fire to a gasometer. The concussion apparently caused it to collapse, and…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Mysterious Fires. At Culcairn Commercial Bank. Young Girl Committed for Trial
Unusual interest was taken in the coroner's inquiry at Culcairn on Monday, into the circumstances surrounding a number of mysterious fires…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Leichhardt
At a late hour last night an outbreak of fire was discovered in a building occupied by J. Hoult, furniture and cabinet maker, and Miss Henderson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Fire at Lockhart
A fire, which broke out in two of James Bell and Co.'s wheat stacks at Lockhart, at 9 o'clock last night, destroyed or damaged about 4000 bags…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires in a Culcairn Bank
An inquiry was held at Culcairn into the circumstances surrounding the fires which occurred on the premises of the Culcairn branch of the Commercial…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Serious Fire at Chippendale
Eight business places aud two private houses at Chippendale were seriously damaged by fire last night. The damage is estimated at £50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Stacks Fire at Lockhart. Four Thousand Bags Damaged
A fire which broke out in two of James Bell and Co.'s wheat stacks, Lockhart, on Sunday night, destroyed or damaged about 4000 bags of wheat, and had it not been…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Bush Fire
Another outbreak of bush fires is reported to have occurred at Bull Plain on Monday last, and it is stated that an area of something like 1000 acres of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Other Items. Riots in German Towns. Troops Refuse to Fire on the Munich Rioters
There have been riots at Kiel, Lubeck, and Munich. German troops refused to fire upon the Munich rioters, whereupon the authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mysterious Fires of Wheat Stacks
Another mysterious fire occurred at [?]urobin on Sunday morning, when two wheat stacks, the property of Mr. J. Price, were destroyed. Last year Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade Expenditure
The New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners have furnished the Wagga council with an estimate of the Wagga Fire Brigade expenditure for 1917. The…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Fire in a Gerogery Wheat Crop
An inquest into the circumstances surrounding a fire which destroyed about an acre of wheat crop on the property occupied by Frederick Adolph Groch, at…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Country Fire Brigades. High Cost of Administration. Effect on Insurance Rates. Exposure at Wagga
During his recent trip to Victoria, Ald. E. E. Collins, on Wagga who has always advocated closer inquiry into the control of country fire brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Wahgunyah
A fire occurred shortly after 2 o'clock on Sunday morning at Mr. Thorp's promises, [?]oord-street, Wahgunyah, by which a valuable amount of stock and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Danger. Railway and Commissioners Farmers
The suggestion that bush fires are caused by sparks from rail tray ongines, or when clearing by burning off ,was referred.to by the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some Causes of Bush Fires
Referring to the suggestion that bush fires are caused by sparky from railway engines, or when clearing by burning off, the Railway Department explained the…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Suspicious Fire at Cootamundra
A fire occurred at the Royal Hotel, Cootamundra, between 1 and 2 o'clock on Friday morning. Those first on the scene after the ringing of the firebell set to work…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Later Details. the Schooner Set on Fire. Austria Making Desperate Efforts to Pacify America
It has transpired that the Lyman Law was set on fire by bombs, off Sardinia. The submarine stood on guard, while the crew of ten,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Other Items. a Newly Invented Torpedo. Britain's Financial Help. How Germany Utilises Crippled Soldiers. Austrian Frightfulness in Servia. Zoo Elephants Being Used in Germany. Premiums Against Air Craft Reduced. Rand Labor Trouble Over. Great Fire in Greece
Admiral Fiske, an American naval expert, has invented a new torpedo, whereby an aeroplane can destroy a battleship. It makes a single air pilot…
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