Fire at Cloncurry. Brisbane
A dre in a motor gunge at Cloncurry yesterday destroyed a garage and the Central Hotel. Other buildings were saved with difficulty…
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Fires & bushfires, 1917
506 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 26
Fire in Assay Office. Heavy Damage
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A fire in the assay office at the electrolytic works of Port Kembla did damage estimated at £3000. The company's fire brigade succeeded in saving…
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At about midnight on Saturday, last Mr. H. Landers' hay shed at Dobie's Bight, together with most of its contents, was totally…
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At about midnight on Saturday last Mr. H. Landers' hay shed at Dobie's Bight, together with most of its out cuts, was totally destroyed by fire. The origin…
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LONDON, Saturday.-- A French communique states :--Violent artillery, operations took place in the Aillon-Grugies region, and we further progressed north of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--An exciting fire occurred on Hillier's Pine View property at Kamarah, near Ardlethan. The stables and chaff house were soon in flames. There…
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On Saturday night last Mr. H. Landers' hay shed at Dobie's Bight was destroyed by fire, together with most of the contents. At 11.30 p.m…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A four-storied building at the corner of Druitt and Kent streets, including Jackson and McDonald (talking machines), Watson (printery) and Gowing's…
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LONDON, Monday.--The correspondent Beach Thomas telegraphs:--"Everywhere there are incredible masses of guns, howitzers, lorries, horses and material. Near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great British Offensive. Thousands of Prisoners Taken. Villages and Guns Captured. Substantial Progress. Troops Leap Forward Cheering. Tremendous Artillery Fire. the Western Front. Vimy Ridge Captured. Mix Thousand Prisoners
LONDON, Monday.--Vimy Ridge has been captured. The prisoners total 6000…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The damage by the fire in Kent-street last night is estimated at about £3000…
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Dame Rumor always busy, worked overtime yesterday. An over-zealous apprentice at the "Daily" office kindled a larger-than usual fire to smelt metal…
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LONDON, Thursday.--Mr. Thomas, the war correspondent, describing the battlefield at Arras, states he has never seen any evidence of howitzer fire being so diabolically…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heaped Coals of Fire on Your Heads. Reversion of Ideal of Liberty. Will the British Become Stronger? ''You Are Half the World." President Wilson's Great Message. Moral Effect of America Joining
LONDON, Thursday.--General Smuts continued:--"I sometimes feel proud to think that since then we have, according to the old apostolic injunction, heaped coals of fire…
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LONDON, Saturday.--The Press Bureau states that a fire occurred at Woolwich arsenal this morning, there being no loss of life. Slight damage was done…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--A fire at Terang, Victoria, destroyed a large boarding house aud three other buildings…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A fire at Coolamon early yesterday morning destroyed four business places and damaged another…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--After inquiring into the fire which destroyed four business places at Berrigan last month, the local Coroner committed Catherine Walsh for trial on a…
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A fire Occurred at Belara, Grenfel, where the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Sim, both of whom were in Sydney, were sleeping. The oldest girl…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brilliant French Victory Greatest Battle in World's History Significant German Admission Labor Upheaval in Germany Submarine Attacks U.S. Destroyer The Western front Greatest Battle in the World's History. French and British Attacks. Stupendous Artillery Fire. Germans Admit Defence is Impossible. LONDON
A German official message states:-- "One of the greatest battles of this mighty war, and, therefore, the greatest in the world's history, has been in…
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