Fire on the Steamer. Burning for Ninety Minutes. Capetown, Jan. 23
Reuter's Agency states that the dynamite on the Aotea, amounting to 350 tons, was removed during the week-end to a hulk in the bay…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fires & bushfires, 1911
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Wheat District on Fire. Blow to the Argentine. Buenos Ayres, Jan. 23
It is reported that the whole of the Teodolina wheat district, in the province of Santa Fe, is on fire. The report has not yet been confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Terrible Calamity. Fifty Firemen Killed. Disaster at Chicago Fire. a Man's Awful Position
Twenty men died and 50 were injured at Philadelphia, [?] 30 were killed, including the chief of the fire [?], at Chicago in two greet fire which mark the continuation of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hankow Riots. Effect of Machine Gun Fire. Boycott Declared Against Foreigners. Hankow
Later accounts of the rioting here which followed the circulation of a story that a coolie had been killed by the British police show that it was serious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigades Board. Royal Commission's Inquiry. Dinner at Paris House. "A Gamble in Railway Tickets."
Further evidence was taken yesterday morning by the Royal Commission (Acting-Judge Edmunds) appointed to inquire into the expenditure of public funds by the Fire Brigades Board…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Brigade Funds Alleged Irregular Methods. Payment for Railway Tickets. a Bootmaker's Allegations. Interesting Evidence Before Royal Commission
The Royal Commission (Acting Judge Edmunds) appointed to inquire into the expenditure of public funds by the Fire Brigades Board and the Board of Fire Commissioners,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Brigades' Commission. a Letter to the Chairman. Use of Official Motor Cars. Trips to Cronulla and Liverpool
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the administration of the Fire Brigades Acts heard further evidence at the Chief Secretary's Department to-day. Mr. Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Devastating Bush Fire
The Wamberra bush fire in the Wentworth district has at last been extinguished. The fire had been burning about two weeks, and the fire-figliters state that it was the roughest…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fire at Coraki. Immense Damage by Fire
The most disastrous fire ever experienced in the history of the town of Coraki took place during the early hours of Friday last. More than half the business portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 57 →An Adelaide Fire
A big fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Leaver Bros., Rundle-street, Adelaide, yesterday, but though extensive damage was done the loss is covered by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire in Adelaide
At an early hour on Tuesday morning a fire was discovered in a two-storeyed building in Rendle-street, Adelaide (S.A.) occupied by Messrs. Leaver Brothers hatters, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Adelaide. Extensive Damage
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--At 12.30 this morning a fire was discovered in a two-storied building in Rundle-street, occupied by Leaver Bros., hatters, and several other firms. After half an…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Parisiana Fire. Boatswain's Theory
FREMANTLE, Tuesday.--A theory in connection with the origin of the fire on the steamer Parisiana was advanced, by the boatswain, P. Gooby, who expressed the opinion that…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bathurst Fire Brigade. Protest Against the Board
BATHURST, Tuesday.--At the last meeting of the Bathurst Municipal Council the Town Clerk stated that the council was now called upon to pay nearly double the amount for the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Disastrous Fire at Coraki, on the Richmond River
At 2 a.m. on, January, 20 a disastrous fire started in the Richmond Terrace, Coraki, which faces the river, and was nob checked until a whole block was wined out, the damage being…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire Brigade Inquiry. Evidence Before Royal Commission. Pleasure Trips
Acting District Court Judge Edmunds, sitting as a Royal Commission, heard further evidence yesterday regarding the administration of the late Fire Brigades Board and of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mystery Solved. Human Shin Bone Found. Used As Fire-beater. Melbourne
THe mystery of how a human shin bone wrapped in a sugar hag came to he left at the roadside at Carrum has been solved. The story of a boy named James Burridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An Hotel Fire. One Killed, Five Injured. Narrow Escape of 300 Guests
VANCOUVER, Tuesday.--The Millard Hotel, Omaha, has been destroyed by fire. One man was killed and five seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Brigades Inquiry. Further Evidence. Motors Used for Pleasure. What the New Board Is Doing
The hearing of evidence in connection with the Royal Commission to inquire concerning the administration of the Fire Brigades Board and the Board of Fire Commissioners was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor Catches Fire
On Tuesday evening Theodore Andrews, a chauffeur in the employ of the Carter and Vanz Central Motor Garage, city, was driving a 24-h.p. Ford motor-car through Centennial…
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