Horse Sets Fire to Wheat Perth
A most unusual cause of fire occurred on Mr. R. A. McKennay’s farm at Northam when, during harvesting operations the iron shoe on one of the…
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Fire Bell Rouses Town Shops Burnt at Kilmore Kilmore
Noticing flames in a shop in the main street of Kilmore about 3 o’clock this morning, a motorist driving through the town tooted the horn of his car…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wodonga Fire Brigade Mr. A. Turton Again Captain Annual Meeting Held
At the annual meeting of the Wodonga Fire Brigade lost evening, the captain (Mr. A. Turton) occupied the chair. The election of officers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Good Save by Wagga Fire Brigade
Prompl action by the Wagga fire brigade provented what might have been a dangerous out.[?]ak in Wagga’s main shopping area yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Family Bucket Brigade Mother and Two Young Children Quell Fire Ouyen
Alone with her two small children when fire broke out at her home at Baring, Mrs. W. Christie organised a bucket brigade which succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bread to Be Dearer From To-day Passing on the Flour Tax “An Iniquitous Imposition” Lyons Ministry Under Fire of Angry Public SYDNEY
Bread will be increased by a penny per two lb loaf to-morrow when the Federal Government’s tax of £5 15/ per ton on flour to aid wheat farmers come into operation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Prevention Formation of Brigades Recommended by Advisory Committee
From the timber districts of Coramba comes a report of an early fire this year—a warning that the Red Terror has, like the snake, emerged from his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Yenda Fire. No Brigade. Damage Done £8,000. SYDNEY. Tuesday
A fire at Yenda. in the Griffith Irrigation Areat. last night, destroyed the Co op. Society's building, together with large stocks of new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Menacing Bush Fires Sydney
A private hospital and the Wentworth Falls golf club house were endangered by bush fires that were raging on a mile front between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Season’s Fruit Destroyed [?] Blaze at Yenda Yenda
While the [?] residents of the town stood helplessly by, a fire last night destroyed large stocks of new season’s peaches, pr[?]nes and apricots, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Club for Boys Proposal Hangs Fire First Mooted Some Months Back
It seems hardly likely that if a boys’ club is formed in Albury it will be [?]tured by all service clubs of the town Legacy, an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armed Man in House Fires at His Pursuers Big Posse of Police Searching for Fugitive Sydney
An armed and masked mail, who wis disturbed in a house at Epping to-day, fired a shot at one of two men who set out after him and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Prevention
Fires in November? With all this green stuff about alter the recent [?]ains! Rubbish!" How often have you heard that said? But he who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney’s Unenviable Day; Heat, Wind and Bush Fires Sydney
With the temperature hovering around the 95 degrees mark and hot westerly winds blowing, Sydney experienced unenviable weather,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Change in Wind Saves Town From Fire Cessnock
Bur for a change in the wind, North Rothbury, would have been destroyed by are this afternoon The lies broke cut in the surrounding [?] and rushed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Allegedly Set Fire to Business Premises Man Gaoled for Four Years Notice of Appeal Given. Lismore
Convicted to-day at Quarter Sessions of having set fire to business premises, George Malouf was sentenced by acting-Judge Fuller to four years’…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Set Fire to Printery Out of Pique Former Employe’s Alleged Admission to Police Remanded For-sentence Melbourne
Because he could find no money after he had broken into the premises of F. W. Niven and Co., art printers, of Flinders street, early in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires in N.s.w. Destruction in Many Centres
Serious bush fires raged in many parts of N.S.W. on Wednesday. The position was so bad in the Blue Mountains that large squads of firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Alarm
On Tuesday afternoon at about 4.30, the fire siren was sounded, and members of the Brigade proceeded to the scene of an outbreak in the yard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Crop
Fire broke out in a crop of Mr. C. Cooper, about 13 miles from Yarrawonga late on Friday afternoon. Yarrawonga and Tungamah bush fire…
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