Santa Claus on Fire Incident at Thornhill Park
Children have come to know Santa Claus as a cheery old man, with rosy cheeks and smile which radiates sappiness from [?]…
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Last Night’s Big Fire Shop Completely Destroyed Brigade’s Grand Save
The shop owned by the Criterion Hotel Pty Ltd., and occupied by Mr. Tom Somerville situated in Sheridan Street, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fires in Junee
The Junee fire Brigede ever the week-end had another sequence of call-outs to grass fires. At 1150 a.m. on Saturday a grass fire started in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boarders Fight Fire Barradine
Boarders from the Barradine Hotel, after fleeing in their night attire from the hotel early this morning, termed a bucket brigade to fight a fire which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nurse Fatally Burned Theories As to Cause of Fire Sydney
The cause of the fire which resulted in the death of Ivy Barton, aged 33 years, nurse, of the Prince of Wales Military Hospital. Randwick, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Threaten Mine Plant Near Goulburn Goulburn
The Ravenspur Gold Mining Co's plant, near Bungoria. was menaced by buch fires yesterday; but volunteers succeeded in quelling the flames…
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The Wagga Fire Brigade bad rather a busy day yesterday. Three calls were received, but fortunately none was serious. Very early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →City Cafe Fire
A cafe proprietor, his wife, and an employee were rescued with the aid of a fire brigade extension ladder when a fire broke out in the cafe early on…
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"Now that the camping and picnicking season is with us again, I think it is necessary that all motorists should be asked to take particular care when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Home on Tarcutta Road Destroyed by Fire Exoiting Resoues
Six Chinese escaped a terrible death last night only by the narrowest of margin. They were sleeping in a house on Mr. Tommy An…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rannock Bush Fire Brigade Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Bannock Fire Brigade was held on 19th October. It was unanimously decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fires Extensive Outbreaks in Victoria Gisborne Endangered Melbourne
Smoke from the Victorian bush fires extended many miles into Bass Strait below Cape Otway, to-day, and covered the whole of eastern and northern…
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At about 12.30 p.m. to-day, a tourer motor car, owned and driven by Mr. r. Williams, international Harvester representative of Ariah Park, burst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Fires Sydney
A fire at Pepperell House, Castlereagh street, City occupied by the Renovated Furniture Co. and other firms, was responsible for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire President's Scheme for New Council Chambers Between Commission Offices and Fire Station May Make Profit Says Cr. Gleeson
THE controversy which followed the Soldiers' Memorial Institute which be sponsored evidently has not dampe[?]ed the ardour of Cr Gleeson in putting forward a further proposition by which he states that the Council could not only secure an [?]8000 Council Chambers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian Bush Fires Melbourne
Sixty men fought a series of bush fires which threatened Bindi Station, near Bairnsdale, last night. Miles of fencing and hundreds of acres of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinamen Burnt Out
Six Chinese had more than an exciting experience at about 11 o'clock on Wednesday night. They were sleeping at the home of the owner,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grass Fires at Junee
The Junee fire Brigade received a call to a grass fire in George-street at 3 a.m. yesterday. While the fire engine was on its way to this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Yallourn State Briquette Works Gutted Melbourne
The briquette plant of the State Electricity Commission at Yallourn, one of the biggest buildings in the State, was destroyed by fire late…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Descent on Knotted Sheets Lady Anderson's Escape From Fire London
Lady Anderson, wife of Sir Alan Anderson, M.P., escaped from a fire at Notgrove Manor, Cotswold, by lowering herself from a window on knotted…
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