Queensland Fire Brisbane
A fire at Pittsworth which destroyed brick buildings owned by Messrs. Postle and Luscombe Pty. Ltd., grocers, early this morning, caused damage estimated…
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Fires & bushfires, 1935
782 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 40
£30,000 DAMAGE Timber Mill Destroyed Blaze in Victoria Melbourne
Damage, estimated at £30,000, was caused by a fire to-night, which destroyed practically all the contents of a timber mill, owned by McPherson and Lawrie,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Catherine Hill Bay Fire Postmistress Released, on Two Years' Bond
"No man knows the slate of a woman's mind at a time like that," said Mr. H. O'Neill, in an appeal for leniency on behalf of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Train Clerks Too Wary Opened Fire on Bandits Attack Repulsed Salt Lake City
Mail clerks' suspicions, aroused by the sudden stopping of a mail train, led to the routing of a gang of bandits…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Polo at Suva Duke Scores Two Goals Visits the Fire-walkers Suva, February 4
The Duke of Gloucester, Captain Arthur-Curtis, and Lieutenant Derek Shreiber, played a local team three chukkers of polo at Albert Park on Sunday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bushfires on the Coalfields Smoke Covers District
Bushfires surrounding Cessnock cast a pall of smoke over parts of the town this afternoon. When flames that were raging in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Bush Fires Hot Day on Coalfields 98 Degrees at Kurri Kurri
Conditions were very hot and unpleasant in Coalfields centres yesterday. The smoke from many bushfires, burning in the surrounding hills, made a thick haze…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Duke Impressed Native Fire-walkers Fish Drive at Fiji Suva, February 5
For colourful variety and novelty, Fiji has earned the distinction of providing the Duke of Gloucester with the outstanding delights of his tour. The range of tints…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Southerly Has Gone No Relief Yet, Says Mares Bushfire Haze Sydney
The southerly has come and gone, and to-day we had the sort of weather that drove men to writing "White Cargo" and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Adamstown Fire
Adamstown Fire Brigade was called out this morning to extinguish, a grass fire near the railway line. The fire was put out with one bydrant…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire at Heddon Greta
Kurri Fire Brigade was called out about 7 o'clock last night to a fire in heaps of bushes which had been stacked by the unemployed relief…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Coal Stack Is on Fire
A red glow in the sky marks the position of Bellbird. The glow is due to a burning coal dump. Ignited by a bushfire, which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire in Flats in Darlinghurst Young Man Charged Sydney
Stanley Cook, 23. laborer, was remanded at the Central Police Court to-day by Mr. McDougal, S.M., on £200 ball, on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Tragedies 10 Die in India and Burma British Soldier Victim Calcutta, February 7
Seven persons, including an eight-year-old girl, perished, and four were critically burned when a fire occurred in a shop in the village of Wayalpad, near Madras…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Big Fire at Newbridge Old Hotel and Shops Destroyed Bathurst
Fifteen people escaped in their night clothes from a fire at Newbridge early this morning which completely gutted the old Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six People Burned Four Fires in Sydney Explosions in Factory Blaze Sydney
Six persons were burned, two seriously, in fires in the suburbs to-day. James Westwood. 57, of Granville, suffered serious burns to the body arms…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fled in Night Attire Blaze at Newbridge Hotel Residents Just Escape Bathurst
While heavy rain fell, the old Royal Hotel at Newbridge, comprising about 20 rooms, was destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock yesterday, morning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Eight Killed Fire Follows Explosion Thousand Workmen Flee Cherbourg, February 9
At least eight persons were killed and 30 injured and houses were damaged for seven miles around when a naval explosives factory blew up at Nardouet, near…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Blaze in the Heavens
An amateur astronomer, Mr. J. P. M. Prentice, took a walk at Stowmarket, Suffolk, England at 4.30 a.m. on December 13 last. Suddenly he saw a new point…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Fire Fighting Apparatus Steel Ladder Sydney
SYDNEY. Wednesday. Perspiration streamed from crimson-faced Fire Brigade men as they swung into action on their…
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