Another Fire
When somebody set off Ryde's Empire Day bonfire 24 hours too soon, the local Progressive Association formed a volunteer brigade and built up another, which…
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Fires & bushfires, 1935
782 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 40
Fires in Sydney Suburbs Two Premises Alight. Sydney
Fires at Hurstville and Alexandria last night caused extensive damage to a cottage and factory. Hurstville and Kogarah brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£100 REWARD Fatal Cessnock Fire Pardon for Accomplice Sydney
A reward of £100 has been offered by the Chief Secretary's Department for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Burned in Explosion Muswellbrook Man's Escape Clothes on Fire Muswellbrook
His clothes a mass of flame as the result of an explosion at Muswellbrook colliery, F. R. Shepherd rushed to an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →La Perouse Hut Destroyed by Fire Woman of 80 Loses Her Shelter Sydney
When the hut which she was occupying caught are last night. Mrs. Alice Rogers (80), of the La Perouse unemployment camp, barely escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Men Burned Fire on Craft in Harbour Rescued by Pilot Steamer Sydney
Fire broke out following the explosion on a harbour craft last night, and three men were burned. The boat drifted about the harbour, after the engine had broken…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Township Stricken By Fire Tullamore Calamity Seven Shops and One Dwelling Desolation at Dawn Tullamore
The main business section of Tullamore, a small western township, between Bogan Gate and Tottenham, was burnt out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrific Blaze No Brigade at Tullamore Eight Buildings Gutted Sydney
The most disastrous fire in the history of the town occurred when seven shops and a dwelling were gutted early this morning at Tullamore, in western New…
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WITH THIS DEVICE an outbreak of fire is quickly delected on the nets British freighter Imperial Star, Smoke issued from suction suction tubes thus raising the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rifle Shooting Clubs to Fire From 600 Yards
Civilian rifle clubs will shoot from tile COO yards range on Saturday and the military units will be 300 yards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Fire Destroys Cottage
A weatherboard cottage at Pokolbin, owned by Mr. C. Hungerford, and occupied by Mr. Andrew Brady and his family, was destroyed, with its contents, by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tent on Fire Campers Lose Possessions Glen Innes
A complete camping outfit, together with a sulky and harness, was destroyed by fire at Clarevaul Creek. W. Doyle and J. Chappell were camped on the banks of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Lot of Piffle" Woman Tells Coroner Inquiry Into Fire Sydney
"I have had enough of this piffle; I'll be back in half an hour," said Mrs. Henrietta May Kennedy, in the Burwood Coroner's Court, to-day, when she…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire on Lorry Not Noticed Till Too Late Furniture Load Destroyed Hobart
Men who were taking furniture in a lorry from Hobart to Andover were unaware of a fire until the flames had burned through portion of the furniture…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Set on Fire Extreme Cruelty to Dog SYDNEY
Extreme cruelty was shown last night to an Irish terrier owned by a resident of Enfield. Caught by an unknown person, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Morpeth Fire Quickly Quelled
There was an outbreak of fire in an unoccupied building in Swan-street yesterday afternoon. The place was previously used by the, Scouts, Morpeth brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Building [?] Construction Waratah Extensions Fire Brick Works Enlarged £600 SPENT
Extensions to the plant of the Newbold Silica Fire Brick Company at Waratah are practically completed, nearly £6000 having been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire and Flood Over 10,000 Dead in Indian Earthquake Police Force Obliterated Natives Trapped in Blazing Inferno: Martial Law to Prevent Looting (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, June 2
The latest estimate of the Quetta earthquake casualties in India gives the total dead at between 10,000 and 15,000. The British death-roll is reported to be 200. Owing to the complete obliteration of the police force a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Danger of Fire Now Greater Than Ever MUDGEE
The President of the Board of Fire Commissioners (Mr. T. J. Smith) warned a gathering of alderman and fireman that danger from fire was gather to-day than…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Causes £50,000 Damage Calcutta, June 3
British and Indian troops were unable to participate in the King's Birthday parade at Rawalpindi because they were called out to fight a widespread fire at…
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