Fire at Merewether
Shortly after eight o'clock last night, Fire Brigade headquarters was called to an outbreak at the joinery works of E. Dann and Company, Limited…
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Fires & bushfires, 1927
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 25
More Fires Dorrigo's Long List. GRAFTON
Two more fires have to be added to the long list of outbreaks recorded at Dorrigo within the last 12 months. On thin occasion two cottages were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Brigade Art Union
To assist the efforts of the New South Wales Fire Brigades' Hospital and Ambulance Art Union, promoted to raise funds to help those…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reign of Terror Follows Pall of Shanghai Blood and Fire Lawless Rabble at Large in Shanghai Troops Engaged Foreign Reinforcements Rushed into Position
Shanghai has practically been captured by Southern Chinese forces, and a reign of terror has begun. Several foreigners have been wounded, and an Indian soldier killed. A rabble of criminals has possession of the native city, where looting,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.S. Usuri Maru Fire in Saloon. Adelaide
Captain Yoshioko, of the Japanese steamer Usuri Maru, had a fortunate escape from what could easily have been a tragic death at Port Adelaide this morning. He…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Group Fire Stations
Recently New Lambton Council urged the Fire Brigade Board to consider the question of grouping of the fire stations of the district, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Riddled by Shell Fire
A home in Lisbon that was swept by the bombardment of the rebels during the recent revolution in Lisbon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Destroyed by Fire Big Motor Cycle Works LONDON
The Douglas motor cycle works at Bristol have been destroyed by fire. The destroyed contents included 4000 completed motor cycles…
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Headquarters and Hamilton fire brigades extinguished a fire last night at the side of Messrs. Lynch and Tripp's bakehouse in Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tannery, Fire £20,000 Damage in Adelaide ADELAIDE, Monday
The oldest tannery in South Australia was destroyed when the two-storey premises of Peacock and Co., Ltd., Thebarton, was completely gutted by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Detection of Fire-damp
It is nearly fifty years, states "Nature," since Mr. E. H. Liveing first designed a method for measuring fire-damp in mines by sending an electric current…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Difficult Job Fire at Rubber Works
Blazing rubber, in a are outbreak at J. A. Morton's rubber and vulcanising works, at 360 Hunter-street West, last night, save firemen a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Newcastle Rubber Works Ablaze
Extensive damage was done to the contents of the building when a fire broke out about eleven o'clock last night in the rubber works of Messrs. J. A. Merton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Still They Come More Troops Ordered to China Peril on Yangtse Warships Must Return Snipers' Fire
Refugees reaching Shanghai from places up the river report that conditions are becoming worse, and that foreigners are not safe in any of the river cities. British warships have been ordered to return the fire, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newtown Markets Fire Sydney
The coroner to-day concluded an inquiry into the cause of the fire which caused £2000 damages to the Newtown Markets on February 27. The coroner found that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Arsenal Fire Incendiarism Suspected LONDON, Thursday?
Arson is suspected to have caused a Woolwich Arsenal fire to-night, the fourth in six weeks. A largo building in which fusea…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Camperdown Motor Works Destroyed. Sydney
The motor engineering works of Lechleitner and Carleton, in Parramatta-road Camperdown, were gutted by fire to-night, while two adjoining shops were severely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boys Did It Newtown Markets Fire SYDNEY
The City Coroner (Mr. Fletcher) concluded the inquiry yesterday into the fire at Newtown Markets on February 27, and found that the promises…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woolwich Arsenal Fire
A serious fire broke out at, Woolwich Arsenal, close to a danger zone, where thousands of tons of high explosive shells, grenades and detonators were stored,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arsenal Fire War Office Silent. LONDON
The War Office is maintaining the strictest silence regarding the origin and effects of the Woolwich Arsenal fire on Thursday…
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