Fire In City Store: 200 Rescued SYDNEY
When a fire broke out among fireworks on a counter at the premises of G. J. Coles and Co. Ltd., Pitt and King streets,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
602 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 31
Cigarette Ash on Crackers Causes Fire and Panic in City Store
SYDNEY, Thursday: -- A man buying crackers for a party flicked his cigarette ash on to the counter at the Pitt Street store of G. J. Coles and Co. this afternoon and started explosions and a fire which caused a panic among 300…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Cave-dwellers" in Bombay Fire Breaks Up "Happy Home"
For three months the hollow base of Flora Fountain, a public monument on Hornby Road, one of Bombay's busiest thoroughfares, has been the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Coles' Police Satisfied It was Caused Accidentally
SYDNEY, Friday:--Police who made inquiries into the fire at the premises of G. J. Coles and Co. Ltd., are satisfied that the man…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →200 Shells Explode In Cottage Fire West Wyalong
Two hundred heavy calibre rifle range shells exploded in rapid succession during a fire which destroyed a weatherboard cottage at West…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Brigade Called Out
The Murwillumbah Fire Brigade was ailed out about 7.45 o'clock last night fo attend a fire which started in a utility truck, belonging to Dorgan's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£100,000 DAMAGE Fire in Christchurch Destroys City Buildings
CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. -- Two large city buildings were almost completely destroyed by fire early this morning. The loss, including…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Faces in the Camp Fire
Roaming swagmen own one pleasure, When they form a nightly camp, And the gaming costs no treasure, Nor yet need of magic lamp…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coff's Harbour Fire Grafton
A weatherboard cottage at Coff's Harbour jetty, owned and occupied by George Keevers, junior, was destroyed by fire with its whole contents early…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →500 DEAD: 900 Wounded, in Air-raid on Canton Fires Raging in Densely Populated Areas Jap. Bombers Twice Visited Helpless City CANTON
AT least 500 were killed and 900 wounded in two Japanese air raids to-day. The casualties included 40 rescuers killed and 50 wounded when they were trapped in the second raid while assisting the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Burned to Death in Blaze at Home: Son Injured Melbourne
A woman was burned to death and her son received burns which necessitated his removal to hospital when their home in Clifton-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Parlt. Gallery Notes. "All Nighters" Loom Up In Canberra: Did Larrakia Fire on Jap. Lugger? CANBERRA
With the Government obviously disappointed at the determined continuance of the second reading debate on national insurance, days…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blaze at Neutral Bay Home Destroyed. Sydney
A house tenanted by a family named Luckman, of Neutral Bay, was partly destroyed by fire this morning while Mrs. Luckman was buying bread at a nearby…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Investigating Melbourne Fire Melbourne
Police are investigating the cause of an outbreak of fire which occurred in Selby House, Flinders-lane, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Newspaper Office BALLINA
Slight damage was caused to printing machinery and paper stocks when a fire broke out at the "North Coast Beacon" premises shortly after 2 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →British Steamer Set on Fire Casualties From Insurgent Bombing
MADRID, Saturday:- The insurgents, during a raid on Alicante, set fire to the British steamer, Maryad, wounding an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£10,000 Trangie Blaze Trangie
A fire which destroyed a general store owned by Western Stores and Edgeley's Ltd. here to-day resulted in £10,000 worth of damage being done…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Redfern Fire Accused Acquitted SYDNEY
August Prank Ragusin (35) was acquitted at the Central Criminal Court to-day of a charge of having caused malicious damage to property…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Big Fire at Tranche Large Stoke Destroyed. Trangie. Monda
About £ 10,000 worth of damage, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£12,000 Damage When Country Store Destroyed by Fire
SYDNEY, Monday.--The premises of Western Stores and Edgeley Ltd., at Trangie, were completely gutted by fire at 2 o'clock this morning. The…
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