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A six-roomed house in Mica-street was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. The premises were occupied as a boarding-house by Mr. Riches, and two of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush fires are raging all round. A big tract of country north of the hill country near Springhurst is on fire. At Collendina a fire broke out, but was quickly extinguished, as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the break of day I had waving fields Of ripened grain, with a promise of yields From the virgin soil by my labor won That would make the harvest a record one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the face of great national loss through bush fires, Mr. O'Neil, of Cowra, in a morning paper offers suggestions for minimising the great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At an early hour this morning a vessel, containing 8 gallons of petrol, caught fire at a private dwelling at Marrickville-road, Marrickville, occupied by T Lockett, through the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly before 10 o'clock last night the Rockdale Fire Brigade received a call to a raw of shope at the tram terminus, Rockdale, known as the Tramway Arcade. The row consisted of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BROKEN-HILL, Thursday.--The fire brigade was called to a fire in Mica-street at 2.30 this morning. The outbreak was in a six-roomed house of light construction. The whole…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →[?]A large two-storied house at Wamberal, owned by Mr. M'Garrible, has been totally destroyed by fire. The house was occupied by Mr. F. Campbell, who lost a considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday Evening.—The steamer Norse Prince has been abandoned on fire off Ascension. The vessel is valued at £77,000, and the cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At about 10 o'clock last night a fire broke out in a shop at the tram platform, next to the Rockdale railway station. How or where the fire originated is unknown, but when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire broke out shortly after 10 p.m. last night in Saywell's Arcade, Rockdale, which resulted in Cooke's florist shop being burned out, and two other shops being damaged by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The new Fire Brigades Act came into force on January 1. Under it the State is cut up into eight districts, and already officers have been appointed to take charge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire this morning destroyed a six-roomed wood and iron house in Mica-street, owned by Mrs. Toope and occupied by Mr. Riches as a private boarding-house. Two lodgers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night, about 10 o'clock, Cooke's florist shop in Bay-street, Rockdale, was discovered to be on fire. The shop is one of a terrace of nine others known as Saywell's Arcade,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Fire Brigades Board of New South Wales, which has been in existence for 25 years, will, under the Act passed towards the close of last session of Parliament, have to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Norse Prince has been abandoned on fire at Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic, 960 miles from the African coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the inquiry concerning the fire on the steamor Warrimoo last November it was stated the damage to the cargo was estimated at £1200. Repairs to the ship cost £400…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Uardry station, near the common boundary of that station and Illilliwa station, a good muster of station hands, aided by eight fire carts from Uardry, Illilliwa, and Gre Gre…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—Professor Park, after exhaustive experiments, has come to the conclusion that outbreaks of fire amongst wool cargoes are caused by heat generated…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →LONDON, Friday Evening.—A fire occurred at the Palace at Athens while the Royal Family were celebrating the Greek Christmas Eve (Wednesday night)…
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