Fire at Alexandria
SYDNEY, Saturday.—A fire at Docker'a works, Alexandria, last night waa responsible for £4000 worth of damage…
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Fires & bushfires, 1920
382 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 12 of 20
Sky Lit Up by Fires. Dundalk Property Destroyed. LONDON
The police arrested two men in possession of bombs outside Brixton prison. There was great disorder at Belfast Vast night, when the sky was lit up with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IRELAND. Incendiary Fires at Dundalk. Sinn Feiners Exact Reprisals. LONDON
The United Press Belfast correspondent states that the entire business section of Dundalk has been destroyed by fire, allegedly set on fire by Sinn Feiners…
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A suggestion has been made by various councils that each individual council might insure all the property in the town, and thus have the benefit of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stand or I Fire. a Policeman Acquitted. SYDNEY
Gordon Willis a constable, appeared before Judge Armstrong and a jury at the Parramatta Court to-day charged with feloniously slaying Reginald…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Belfast Fires. LONDON
The Belfast incendiarism spread over fourteen streets and the fire brigades were called out forty times…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Soldiers' Settlement
At about 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning it was discovered that 100 acres of fallen scrub at Bilambil Soldiers' Settlement was afire. All efforts by the men to prevent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. Sites for Fire Bells
In conversation with a representative of this journal yesterday Mr. G. Flick, Captain of the Fire Brigade, stated that another fire bell had been erected near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coroner and Fires
SYDNEY, Thursday.—During an inquiry into the cause of a fire which totally destroyed a weatherboard cottage in Merrylands last month, the Coroner remarked: "If…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal Council. Protecting the Town Against Fire and Thieving
Ald. C. W. O'Connor suggested at the Council meeting on Monday night that the appointment of a night watchman was very desirable. "If a fire were…
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At about 12.30 p.m. on Wednesday the Central Fire Brigade received a call from the University, and two motors in charge of Superintendent Hinton were despatched. It…
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At and early hour on Saturday morning the fire bell sounded and very little time had elapsed before a crowd had assembled at the R.C. Presbytery, where…
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A few minutes after 9 o'clock on Friday night the Grafton Fire Brigade station received an alarm call from the automatic alarm at the intersection of Victoria and…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—White patrolling his rounds at Fitzroy shortly after mid-night Henry Cuttley, a night watchman, saw three men removing goods from a draper's…
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At an early hour on Saturday morning the fire bell sounded and very little time had clapsed before a crowd had assembled at the R.C. Presbytery (says the "Tweed Daily"),…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A delivery van was destroyed by fire when proceeding along a road at Willoughby. The cause of the blaze is a mystery, and the driver did not know…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A fire was discovered on the steam launeh Vivid at Dawes Point. The engine room, bunkers, and deck fittings were seriously damaged…
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To-day recalls the big fire which Swept over Murwillumbah and destroyed every business place in the heart of the town, but which indeed proved a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Disastrous Fire. Paris
A fire at Dunlop's works caused damage estimated at £1,200,000. It is stated that the proposed tax upon racecourse admission will bring in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigade for Coraki
The N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissioners (Hon. E. Farrar, M.L.C., Chairman accompanied by Fire Commissioners Francis and Beswick, and Mr. H. N…
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