New Fire Station
The position in regard to the site for the new fire station remains unaltered. No communication has been received since the recent visit of the Fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1917
506 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 12 of 26
A Rude Awakening. House Destroyed by Fire. Inmates Escape in Night Attire
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A weatherboard building occupied by John Hamilton, who lives with his wife and son at. Muttraville, was totally destroyed by lire at an early…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →District News. Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Motor Accident and Fire
When the representative of Messrs. Dalgety and Co. was returning on Tuesday night, at about midnight, to Murwillumbah, driving a new two-seater Dodge…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--A fire was discovered amongst a cargo of copra on board a large steamer in the Harbor to-day, but the outbreak who checked before serious…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--A fire broke out at Ryde early this morning, which severely damaged the detached storeroom at the rear of John Delancy's grocery store. It was…
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About 7.30 on Saturday night the local fire brigade received a call to attend a blaze at North-Lismore, which eventually proved to be only a scare. A rather large heap of grass…
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Finishing up a recent trench raid in the German front line, the Australians heard a wounded German shouting to them in broken English from the bottom of a shell hole…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Great Fires in Sweden. London
A message from Gothenburg, Sweden, states that a fire has destroyed great areas of the woods in western Sweden, and is now raging on a 14 miles front…
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About 2.30 yesterday morning a fire broke out in a shed on Mr. AV. R. Johnstone's property at Boogoolum. and resulted in the loss of about £60 or £70 worth of farming…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Navy Office states that the Union Steamship Coy-'s steamer Waitotara caught fire at sea, and was abandoned, the whole crew being…
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LONDON, Saturday.--An Italian official message says :--The enemy concentrated a brisk fire on our new positions on Mount Ortigara. We replied effectively. We captured,…
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While Constable Woods was on his beat in Woodlark-street, at a few minutes past twelve last night the noticed a glare in the direction of North Lismore. He came to the…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.--Two thousand bags of wheat Board by the State Wheat Board in the railway goods yards at Rozelle were severely damaged, by fire this afternoon. The…
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As a result of a fire, apparently caused by a lighted match being careless dropped, 2000 bags of wheat ware burned or destroyed by water at the…
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Further details of the fire at North Lismore show that the promises were owned by Hajarah, of Tiptonbar. The occupant, Thomas Notta Singa, carries on business as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Playing with Fire." Appear for Unity
CAPETOWN, Monday.--General Botha continuing said :--We should be killing off each other, and in the end somebody else would walk away with the spoils and site…
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A French communique reports sustained reciprocal artillerying north of La[?]faux Mill and in the sectors of Af[?]y Craonne and Chevreux. 1200 s[?]e…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crisis in Spain. King Alfonso's Crown Shaky. a Revolution Bound to Come. Operations Reviewed on the Eastern Front. Venizelos to Form a Cabinet. Russian Deserters Rejoining the Ranks. the Western Front. Reciprocal Artillery Fire
LONDON, Monday.--A French communique says: The liveliest reciprocal artillery fire took place in the sector of Royers and Froidment Farms, in the direction of…
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LONDON, Monday. -- A French correspondent says : -- In the Cerny-Ailles sector a big calibre shell bombardment redoubled in intensity towards the end of the night…
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Yesterday afternoon a bush fire broke out at Runnymede, caused, it is thought, by railway men who were burning off at the side of the line. A…
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