Elaborate Hoax Joke Misses Fire Disgusted Victim
A visitor who arrived at St. Mary's, Scilly, recently, found himself the intended victim of an elaborate practical joke. By means of advertisements…
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Unrest in India. Military Fire on Strikers. Allahabad, March 17
For some time industrial dispute have continued in and around Calcutta. News has been received that the strikers at the Tata works, in Jamshedpur, after presenting demands,…
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Shortly before 10 o'clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out at the weather-board board residence of Mrs. Brown, Railway-street, Lidcombe, just opposite the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kaiser's Sinister Diamond. Tragic Story of the "Blaze of Glory
A GREAT and brilliant diamond, said by tradition to have been given by King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba, which, after a career of sinister influence, was…
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On Friday last a most destructive fire occurred at Mr. Gread's property at Moorebank, the homestead and contents being totally destroyed. The origin is a…
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A representative team of cricketers from the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Bridge is to visit Sydney next week, and will play an all day match against the…
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A motor bike which was standing in Erskineville-road yesterday evening took fire, and Alfred Witherburn, who resides at 30 Park-road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Blaze of Glory" Kaiser's Diamond Sinister Record
A great and brilliant diamond, said by tradition to have been given by King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba, which, after a career of sinister…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Bush Fire Fiend a Desperate Fight for Life. Tasmanian Survey Party
A survey party that left Lake ST. Clair (Tas), to survey the truck route from that town to Germansten, has reached its dest[?]ation after one of…
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Fire broke out on Saturday in No. 2 level, of the C.S.A. copper mine, the oregon timber burning fiercely. All attempts to approach the scat of the outbreak failed, and the…
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Shortly before 11 o'clock last night, a fire broke out among some bales of flax on the North Coast Steam Navigation Company's Wharf at Darling Harbour. The Headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bed on Fire Botany Girl's Experience
Waking up at a quarter past three this morning. Kathleen Martin, who lives with her mother in a weatherboard collage in Botany-road, Botany,…
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Kathleen Martin, of Botany road, Botany, awoke about 3 o'clock this morning, and found her bed on fire. She sprang from it, and ran into the…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--A fire occurred at Messrs. Collings and Green's shop in King William Street South about 6 p.m. to-day, us the result of an explosion in the kitchen where…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ireland Again Troops Fire on Crowd Man and Woman Killed Panic and Consternation LONDON
A serious affair is reported from Dublin. A crowd followed troops who were leaving a city theatre, and a collision…
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It is the opinion of the Glebe Municipal Council that the insurance companies should bear a much larger proportion of the expenses of the Board of Fire…
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Further details respecting the fire which broke out at the C.S.A. copper mine, Cobar, on Saturday last were received by the secretary of the company yesterday. The general…
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The wooden steamer Jubilee, owned by Arthur William Miller, was damaged by fire at Long Cove, Balmain, early this morning. The blaze was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mails Destroyed. Fires on American Trains
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Advice received by the Postmaster-General's Department states that, the fires which occurred on the American mail trains on January 3 and January 9…
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Early yesterday morning a fire broke out on board Messrs. R. W. Miller and Company's [?]team lighter Jubilee, while lying at the Balmain colliers' wharf. The hold, engine-room,…
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