Big City Blaze. Adjacent to People's Palace
SYDNEY, Monday.—So terrific was the heat generated at a fire at J. S. Lewis' general store in Pitt-street on Friday night, that heavy six-inch steel…
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Fires & bushfires, 1927
996 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 12 of 50
Diners Quarrel. Woman Fires Revolves
SYDNEY, Monday.—A woman produced a revolver in the Kookaburra restaurant, Darlingliurst-road, Darlinghurst, and fired it. It is believed there…
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In the early hours of Wednesday last a fire broke out in a weatherboard farm house owned by Mr. Henry Hooke, of Myrtle Crook, and occupied…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—At an early hour on Saturday morning information was received that disastrous bush fires were racing over a wide…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.--The wooden steamer Our Elsie, well-known in the North Coast timber trade, was severely damaged by fire while berthed at the…
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At Kyogle Police Court, before Mr. Sutherland, P.M., Constable J. D. Kerr of Woodenbong, laid an information against Edward Wilson, of White…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diners Quarrel Woman Fires Revolver At Man in Sydney Restaurant. They Leave Together
SYDNEY, Saturday.--A woman produced a revolver in the Kookaburra restaurant, Darlinghurst-road, Darlinghurst, last night, and fired it. It is…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. —Bush fires in various parts of the State are now on the wane. A few fires are still raging fiercely, but they are under…
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Within sight of the anniversary of the disastrous bush fires of last year, another outbreak occurred on Saturday morning, when the Kingslake and…
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The bush fires in Victoria, while not yet under control, are less fierce in their intensity, a change of wind having improved the position materially…
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Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the fruit and confectionery shop in Union-street, South Lismore, occupied by Mr. S. McMahon. The brigade…
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A house at Fingal, owned by Mrs. G. J. T. Glennie, Murwillumbah, together with its contents, was destroyed by fire about 3 a. m. on Saturday…
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Mr. W. Kerr, captain of the Lismore fire brigade, would like to give a few instructions to those who use the fire alarms when notifying an outbreak of fire. First open…
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Bush fires in Victoria continue to cause heavy losses in grass, stock, hay-stacks, and other property. A change of wind to the south improved the position of some of the…
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Bush fires are raging in Victoria, and unless the weather changes the holocaust of twelve months ago, when 30 people lost their lives, may be repeated…
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HOBART, Tuesday.--Bush fires swept a large area of Bruny Island, causing heavy damage. No lives have been lost, but crops and stock have been…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A Hobart message states that bush fires swept a large area of Bruny Island, causing heavy damage. No lives have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£20,000 DAMAGE An Adelaide Blaze
ADELAIDE Tuesday.--Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which broke out in large store buildings; which have a frontage of 300…
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At the Kyogle' Police Court before Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland, P.M. Edward Watson, of White Swamp, Koreelah, was charged with having left a fire in the open air without…
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Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which broke out in large store buildings which have a frontage of 300 feet on Port Adelaide canal. The fire float,…
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