Big Fire at Coonamble
At Coonamble on Tuesday, a fire started at 1.30 a.m., in H. G. Cobb's stationery and tobacconist department, spreading to the hairdressing saloon, billiard saloon, saddlery…
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Fires & bushfires, 1904
43 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 3
The Fire in Auckland
THE fire in the warehouse of T. and S. Morrin and Co., ironmongers, Queen-street, Auckland, did damage to the extent of £80,000. The fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ballina Fire Brigade
This Brigade is now on a solid and effective footing. It is comfortably quartered and fully equipped, and has, thanks to the management and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Novel Fire Escape
Many are the Are escapes which have been invented, but the latest is, perhaps, one of the strangest, as it is certainly one ot the most ingenious, yet devised. It denmunds a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Sea. Outbreak on the Wakool
A sensation was caused in shipping circles at Melbourne on Thursday morning, when it was reported that the Blue Anchor line steamer Wakool had been compelled to…
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A case of considerable, interest to farmere was heard in the Lismore District Court on Friday, 3rd inst., as reported briefly in our last Saturday's issne. It was one in which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terrible Disaster in America. Children's Excursion Steamer Takes Fire. Over 1100 Lost. London
One thousand children and 9OO adults, chiefly women connected with St. Mark's German Lutheran Church, New York, wera proceeding in the three-decked steamer…
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LAST Thursday a frightful disaster occurred in New York Harbor, when a fire broke-out on board the excursion steamer General Sloeum, resulting in the death of about 500 persons. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Destructive Fire at a Convent
A DISASTROUS fire, resulting in the destruction of two buildings attached to the Bothlehom Convent, Ashfield, occurred on Friday morning last. About…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Fire at Coraki. R.C. Church and Convent Totally Destroyed
SHORTLY after 2 a.m. last Tuesday a fire broke out in the Roman Catholic Church. An alarm brought many willing workers to the scene, but the flames had spread all over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Recent Fire at Coraki
The Coroner (Mr. L. E. Cope, J.P.) proceeded to Coraki on Tuesday last, and held an enquiry before a jury of twelve into the cause of the fire which recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Recent Fire at Coraki. Coroner's Inquest
ON Tuesday last at the Coraki Courthouse, before Mr. L. E. Cope, District Coroner, and a jury, an inquiry was hold touching the burning of the Roman Catholic Church and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Fire Extinguisher
Herr Eberhardt, a German, has recently carried out some wonderful experiments with a fire extinguishing mixture he has invented…
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What would in all probability 'have proved a serious conflagration was fortunately averted at the Royal Hotel, Tenterfield, late on Saturday evening…
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IN "Cassell's Magazine" for April Mr. Arnold White writes on "The Great Guns of Great Britain," and gives some timely information as to…
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A SAD burning fatality, resulting in the death of three young children, occurred at Boulder City on Friday evening last. It appears that the father of the victims…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DAIRY & FARM. Sell The Poor Butter Cows. (E. L. Vincent, in "Farm and Fire-side.")
There are a good many things about farm life that are not profitable. One of them is keeping a cow that will eat her own head off once…
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MOST animals are afraid of fire and will fly from it in terror. To others there is a fascination about a flame, and they will walk into it even though tortured by the heat…
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AN awful tragedy is reported from New Caledonia. It appears that on the 19th September a settler, who had repeated quarrels with his wife, tied her to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in a Charters Towers Mine. Seven Fatalities
At about 1 o'clock on Friday morning a fire was seen coming from the shaft of the Brilliant mine, and it was found that one of the levels was on fire. The men tried…
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