Fire Walker Amazing Feat on White-hot Charcoal
Asserting his ability to perform a fire-walking ceremony by his strength of faith, Kuda Bux, a Kashmiri Mohammedan, aged 39,…
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Fire in Wool Store Thousands of Bales May be Saved Were Buried by the Debris Sydney
It is expected that some thousands of bales of wool which were in Goldsbrough Mort’s store when the fire occurred last week. will be available…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charred Body Mystery Woman Committed Suicide Took Poison ; then Set Fire to Herself MELBOURNE
Noticing flames m a washaway [?] Car[?]von road, Essendon, on the night of September' 4, a man later discovered the charred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fire Menace
No one thinks of bush fires at the present time, because of the luxurious growth of herbage everywhere to be seen in the district: But it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Took Wool From Fire Laborer Is Fined Sydney
Matthew Georke, 50 laborer, was fined 30/ at the Central police court to-day on a charge of having on October 4 stolen a quantity of wool, worth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Country Fire Hotel and Shops Burned. Damage Estimated at £11,000 Sea Lake
The Kan[?]ira Hotel G. Copeland’s store, and the office of Paul Cross, stock and station agent, were destroyed in a fierce fire at Culgoa early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Slept While Launch Was on Fire
William Edwards and Ray Selby, who had arrived at Coff's Harbour after a deep-sea fishing trip, found that a launch owned by Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Still Talking at Canberra Fire Gone Out of Debate Canberra
The debate on the Abyssinian situation occupied the whole of the afternoon in the House of Representatives to-day. Since the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Helping the Farmer Expert Advice on Various Subjects Spraying of Skeleton Weed with Sodium Chlorate Precautions Against Fire and Stock Poisoning
Two sprayings are generally necessary for the destruction of skeleton weed with sodium chlorate, and it is advisable to make the first application…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Fires Shots May Have Wounded Intruder Early Morning Incident Melbourne
Believing that an intruder was armed, Captain Tinsley, of Stradbroke Avenue, Toorak, called upon him to stand back early this morning, at his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Employes Rush to Safety Handling Factory Fire £15.000 Damage Adelaide
Two hundred employes had to rush for safety this morning when the handling factory of A. J. Swain and Co, in North Terrace caught…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Recovered After Fire Satisfactory Salvage Work Insurance Payments Sydney
A hundred and forty men, who are engaged in the ruins of Goldsborough Mort’s wool store, which was destroyed by fire recently, have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Martial Law Proclaimed Sugar Workers Violence Threat Canefield on Fire Georgetown (British Guiana), October 17
Martial law was proclaimed in the city and district to-day following a strike by thousands of laborers employed on the sugar estates. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →’Quake Causes Terror Deaths and Fire American City Stricken HELENA (Montana) Oct : 18
With a terrifying rumbling an earthquake violently rocked Helen starting at 9.47 p.m. One man was killed by falling bricks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner Catches Fire Seven Persons Lose Lives Australians in a Skilful and Brave Rescue ALEXANDRIA, October 19
Members of the crew of H.M.A.S. Australia participated in the rescue of passengers and crew when the Italian liner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Store and Fire Enquiry Sydney
An inquiry will be opened to-morrow concerning the fire which destroyed Goldsbrough Mort’s wool store at Pyrmont. The proceedings are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Fire Brigades Representative on Board Bendigo Nominee Elected Melbourne
In a keenly-contested poll in which [?] per cent of the brigade took part, Mr. T. R. J. Brown, of Bendigo, has been elected as representative of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Airliner Crashes Pilot and Woman Seriously Injured Machine Catches Fire New York, October 21
Miss Ruth Nichols and the co-pilot, Captain Harry Hublitch, were seriously injured and burned when a giant commercial transport, which they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Store Fire Evidence at the Inquiry Coroner’s Open Finding “Nothing Suspicious About Conflagration” SYDNEY
An inquiry was opened by the City Coroner (Mr. Oram) this morning concerning the disastrous fire at Goldsborough Mort’s wool store, Pyrmont,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Control Organisation of Brigades
Every summer heavy losses are sustained in rural districts as a result of fire. Some of this loss in inevitable, but a large proportion might…
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