A Controversy and a Fire
The Government House at Auckland, an occasional residence only of His Excellency, was almost wholly destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The building…
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Fires & bushfires, 1916
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Canadian Forest Fires. (Australian Cable Association.) TORONTO
Forest fires in the neighbourhood of Cochrane and Matheson have wiped out entire communities in Northern Ontario. The death roll is from 140 to 200, and…
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Sir,—Recently the Fire Brigade Employees' Union experienced great difficulty with their board in an endeavour to got an increase in their wages, and the…
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Mr. G. Brown, the coroner, bold an inquiry at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday, into the circumstances surrounding the destruction by fire on July 23rd of an unoccupied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peronne on Fire. Copenhagen
A German war correspondent reports that Peronne is on fire, as a result of the violent French bombardment. A large part of the town has been burnt,…
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A fire, which has been in existence for some time past at Bogside No. 2 Colliery, brose through the "stopping" on Friday into the tunnel, setting fire to the pillars…
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Two mysterious fires occurred at Trentham Camp last Sunday, both in stores where supplies were kept. The first outbreak was in a building, part of which…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire in Munition Works. Paris
Carelessness on the part of a woman worker making fuses resulted in a fire in some ammunition works at Saint Denis. Three workshops were destroyed, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire in Sydney. Damage Over £150,000. SYDNEY
A big fire broke out this morning in the Public Supply Co-operative Company's building at 362-368 Pitt-street, between Goulburn and Liverpool streets. The…
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We hear much or terrific bombardments preceding infantry advances. Some idea of what happens may be gathered from the foot sketch. The French had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British Advance. Capture of Guillemont. Through a Hell of Fire (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON
Mr. Philip Gibbs, the correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," gives a vivid description of the capture of Guillemont, Leuze Wood, and Fallemont Farm…
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Etna, the famous volcano of Sicily, discharges, when active, on enormous quantity of lava in the eruption of 1669 the lava flowed from the mountain like…
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A fire at Adlerhof, near Berlin, destroyed ten aeroplanes. Its origin is mysterious, bet the police arc convinced that it was the work of on…
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The camp fire concert, organised by members of the military and their friends, and held on the camp grounds, on Saturday night, was very successful. About…
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It is reported that a large airship wharf near Frankfort has been burned down. Four uncompleted Zeppelins and fifteen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Adamstown Outbreak of Fire
A fire occurred at the residence of [?] G. Cockburn, Globe-road, a few min[?] before 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Cr[?] F. Kimber, of the local fire bri[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Hospitals. London
A serious fire has occurred in the war hospital at Lord Lucas' house near Luton. Two hundred wounded men were safely removed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Sydney Letter. at the Town Hall.—more About the War.—the Great Excommunication.—those Extraordinary Fires.—a Family Conversation.—the Tense Feeling Everywhere. Sydney
The meeting at the Town Hall, Monday night, was enthusiastic. It was right that it should be. The Prime Minister made out a great case and then a super-case…
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Shortly after 11 o'clock last night a fire was discovered in the furniture store of Grace Brothers; Limited, at the corner of Ross-street and Parramatta-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on a Steamer. New York
The steamer Philodelphia arrived at New York this evening with a fire in her hold, which had been burning since Thursday…
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