Destructive Fires
On Wednesday, 24th inst., a fire broke out at the homestead of Mr. G. S. Adams farm, Wodonga East, completely destroying the house. Mr. C. Pollard, of…
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From Fire and Flood. Father Rescues Children. Young
It was the task of Charles Masters, of Sawpit Gully, near Young, to rescue his family first from fire and then from flood on Saturday…
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James Bourke and Joseph D. Walker have been arrested for the larceny of £400 worth of silk, etc., the property, of H. T. Ellis, on the occasion of a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft of Silk. Fire in Burgled Shop. Melbourne
Charged in the City Court to-day with having broken into the shop of T. H. Ellis, of Elizabeth street, and stolen therefrom a number of crepe de chine and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire in Sydney. Printers in York Street Suffer Sydney
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There is some dissatisfaction among members of the fire brigades in the Sydney area aa to the number of hours they are on duty. It is understood that they…
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A fire broke out yesterday afternoon in premises in York street occupied by Crompton and Coy., electrical engineers, next door to the building in which,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Ettamogah. Iron House Burned Down
About 1 o'clock this morning Mr. and Mrs A Haley, who reside in an iron house on the Tabletop side of Ettamogah station, were rudely awakened by a noise…
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Excitement was caused at Tallygaroopna, a township about 10 miles from Numurkah, on Tuesday night, when a weatherboard building used as a store and…
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At 10.30 o'clock this morning Noske Bros.' Flour mill caught fire, and the greatest blaze in the history of the town occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Railway Station. Tongala, Monday
At 2 a.m. yesterday the railway station premises at Tongala, between Toolamba and Echuca, were destroyed by fire. The police have been informed that it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire Near Gympie. Gympie
A disastrous fire occurred at Kilkivsan at 2 o'clock on Saturday, three shops belonging respectively to M. J. N'Nulty, draper: E. Dickinson, saddler, and W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Theatre. Benzine Used in Dry Cleaning 'Melbourne
Mother Hubbard was alarmed this morning at the "Kings' Theatre, when heavily.booted firemen, with braes helmets, clattered up the staircase of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Black Rock Melbourne, Thursday. . 8
At the Morgue to-day the City Coroner held an inquiry into a fire which occurred in the front room of a house situated in Beach road, Black Rock on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Fire in Panama Canal. Big Cargo Steadier Sinks. Sydney
A cable message has reached Sydney stating that the big cargo steamer Marne, while on the voyage to Australia from New York, caught; fire and sank in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires in Tasmania. Hobart
Serious bush fires are raging along the north-west coast. In the Deep Creek district, Wynyard, several farmers have been burnt out, and…
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Mr. G. H. Dadd, Inspector under the N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissioners for the southern portion of the State, paid his half-yearly visit of inspection…
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With reference to the recent fire on Mr. T. Ware's property early last week, we have been advised that the loss(estimated at £1000) falls equally on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Glass Works. Employes Jeer at Firemen Sydney
While a fire was burning at the factory of the Australian Glass Manufacturers Company Limited in Dowling street this morning, a number of employes not only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Origin of Fire
"No one knows how man first learned to keep fire alive and how ages later he learned to make a fire," says John Mills in "The Realities of Modern…
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