Fire Destroys Cottage at Holbrook
[?] unoccupied weatherboard cottage in Bardwell street, Holbrook, the property of Mr. W. G. Waters, Culcairn, was completely destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires & bushfires, 1934
335 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 17
Prisoners Alleged to Have Set Fire to Prison
VIENNA, July 18--The main section of the Judecca Prison was gutted by fire to-day when 20 convicts alleging tough treatment at the hands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Bitumen Works. Balmain Outbreak. SYDNEY. Thursday Night
A fire broke out this morning in the bitumen works of Burt. Bolton and Haywod, Balmain. There were many explosions as gases caught fire or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dancers Fight Fire Store and Residence Gutted £10,000 Damage Currie (King Island), Thurs
Many dancers from the annual spinsters’ ball at Currie assisted in fighting a fire which completely gutted a large store covering 3500…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Convicts Fire Prison Burning Horsehair Dropped Into Carpenter's Shavings Intense Panic But No Deaths. Vienna
The main section of Judecca prison was gutted by fire to-day when twenty convicts, alleging rough treatment at the hands of warders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Disastrous Fire Motor Body Works Destroyed 170 Hands Affected Sydney
The large motor truck body works of Peters Bryden and Peters Ltd., at Redfern , were destroyed by fire this morning. The factory covered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Firemen’s Banquet a Wodonga Function Fire Engine Handed Over
The motor fire engine provided by the Victorian Country Fire Brigades Board for the Wodonga brigade was formally handed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What About Fire
After putting in a new water service at Wentworth it has been discovered (writes an exchange) that the Public Works Department, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bank Destroyed by Fire
Fire destroyed the three-roomed weatherboard building of the Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, at Tullibigeal shortly before 3 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petrol Taken From Fire Engine
When the attendants of the fire pump inspected same at the Rochester Fire Station early this week, they discovered that all the petrol had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires in America Enormous Damage Reported Pasadena [?], July 27
Bush fires which ran through . the Pasadena water-shed on .Thursday night caused damage estimated , between 2,'500,000 and 5,000,000 dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Queensland Fire. Sydney
When a fire broke out in an hotel at South Johnstone, North Queensland, the occupants made their exit from the premises in their night attire, many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thieves Visit Golfhouse Set Building on Fire Three Women Sleep on Melbourne
After ransacking the Kingston Heath Golf Club house last night thieves set fire to the building. The fire, however, made little progress,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bonfires Wilt Blaze: Centenary Plan
In a letter received at yesterday’s meeting of the Wodonga Shire Council the Centenary Celebrations Council staled that it was proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal June on Fire Newcastle
Following a report that portion of Ayrfield No. 1 Comery is on fire, the Minister for Mines (Mr. Vincent) has ordered an-jnqutry into conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Outlook Grazier Says “Gloomy” Tariff Under Fire BRISBANE
Persecuting his report at the annual meeting of the council of the United Graziers Association of Queensland to-day. tho president…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destructive Thieves Started Fire m Mill Flames Do Not Spread Melbourne
Before making their exit from the Dominion Knitting Mills, Hodgson street, Brunswick, early. to-day, thieves who had broken in through a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigades Association
The annual meeting of the Northeastern Fire Brigades Association was held at Wangaratta recently. The following officers were elected:--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£10,000 FIRE Young Man for Trial Coroner’s Inquiry [?] LAUNCESTON
To-day at Currie King Island, a coroner’s inquiry was held concerning a fire on July 19, when £10,000 worth of damage was done to the premises…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dog Warns of Fire Hotel Dwellers’ Escape Melbourne
The barking of a fox terrier probably saved the lives of Mr. John Yule and his wife Mrs. Rosanna Yule, when their 13-roomed hotel at [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →