Dived Into Canal When Clothes Caught Fire Leeton
Mr. Eric Trethewey, an employee of the Irrigation Commission, received burns to the hands while engaged in spraying cane grass on the banks of…
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House Destroyed by Fire Furniture and Clothing Lost Brigade Receives Two Calls on Same Day
A fire which completly gutted the residence of Mr. and Mrs, Am. Harpley, of Jones Creek, Gundagai,. on Tuesday, evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Midnight Blaze at Young
A weatherboard cottage at the corner of Thornhill and Edward streets, young, was practically destroyed by fire on Monday night. Unoccupied for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires at Gundagai
A fire which completely gutted the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Am. Harpley, of Jones Creek, Gundagai, on Tuesday night, also destroyed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Junee
Heavy rain was falling when the fire alarm sounded at Junee at 830 a.m. yesterday. The fire was In a very large old weatherboard building known…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Damage in Merriwagga Fire
A fire which started near Merriwagga on Friday last, destroyed 13,000 acres of grasslands, several miles of fencing, a home, sheds, live…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Junee Junee
Heavy rain was falling when the fire alarm sounded at Junee at 6.30 a.m. yesterday. The fire was in a very large old weatherboard building,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Last Sunday's Fires Heavy Losses in Grassland and Sheep
The bush fires which swept a large area of country between the Gilmore Valley and Wermatong, Tumut Plains, on Sunday last and on Monday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigades Inspector Loaned to Leeton Station
INSPECTOR J. W. Barnaby from headquarters will arrive in Leeton this morning to take charge of the local station and brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Troops Fire on Natives 14 Killed in South Africa Capetown
Fourteen natives were killed and 20 wounded when troops fired on copper mine strikers in the Nkana concession in the Languawa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hume P.p. Board Monthly Meeting Bush Fire Menace
The monthly meeting of the Hume Pastures Protection Board was held at its office, Albury-street, Holbrook, on Saturday last, when there were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inquest Into Wagga Fire Draper Tells of Threatening Letters Sensational Evidence Outbreak Maliciously Caused by Unknown Person, Says Coroner
Sensational evidence concerning a fire which occurred a the shop of Abraham Rudov. draper. of 114 Baylis—street. Wasrga, in the early morning of March 3, was given yesterday at the Wagga Court House, when an inquest into the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Destroys House Near Leeton Fireman Breaks Wrist Leeton
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. Gordon on the Fivebough-road, was totally destroyed by fire about 4 o'clock this afternoon. The fire was outside…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bush Fire Damage at Blowering
Last issue we published an estimate of the damage caused by the recent bush Fire at Gilmore and at Wermatong. We have received further…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ditch Bridged With Logs at Petersham Fire Brigade's Difficulty in Securing Water Fireman Injured in Fall
A WIRE fence had to be torn down and a drainage ditch filled with logs to allow Leeton's weighty new fire-engine access to a dam to supply water with which to fight a fire at a cottage in Petersham late on Sunday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raid on Scapa Flow Heather Fires Started London
The Germans conducted another raid on Scapa flow to-night. Two raiders were shot down and a third was severely damaged. It was last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bulli Mine Fire Manager Suspects Sabotage Sydney
The managing director of the Nattal Bulli Colliery said to-day that he strongly suspected that a fire which broke out at the company's pit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Latest (Second Edition) Mr. Chamberlain makes Statement Heavy German Losses Ships Sunk and Sett on Fire London
Describing in the House of Commons the naval engagement off Norway. Mr. Chamberlain said that five British destroyers had entered a fjord…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Haystack and Chaffcutter Burned
A serious loss was sustained by Messrs. Logan and H[?], of Ganmain, on Tuesday lust when a portion of an oaten hay stack and a Churchill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Tennis Courts
Portion of the club house at St. Michael's tennis courts in Johnston-, street was destroyed by a fire which broke out at 12.45 o'clock yesterday…
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