Drying Grass Danger of Bush Fires YOUNG
The grass which covers the countryside at heights varying up to two feet is now rapidly drying. Farmers are becoming uneasy regarding the…
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Motor Car Catches Fire
Mr. Orrie W. Parr[?] of Darlighurst-street City was [?] a motor car along Oxford street. Woollahra last night. when it caught [?] The four…
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A party was being driven to Centennial Park last night by Orrie W. Dargan, of Darlinghurst-road, Darlinghurst, and when near the Ocean-street entrance…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Completing her most eventful voyage since the war period, the Cunard-Austrailan line cargo steamer Port Napier reached Melbourne during the…
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As the result of a small fire in the underground workings of th Oakey Park Colliery some time during Saturday night twenty-eight valuable horses were…
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The City Coroner to-day held an inquiry into the death of Mrs. Jane Cath[?] Cox, aged [?] at Prince Alfred Hospital on Friday…
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As the result of a small fire in the underground workings of Oakey Park colliery between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning 28 valuable…
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West's bootmaker's shop and Sanders' furniture shop were burnt to the ground early on Thursday morning with the whole of the contents. The Methodist School Hall was also…
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As the result of a small fire in the Oakey Park colliery between Saturday afternoon and early on Sunday morning 28 valuable horses used in the working of the colliery were…
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LITHGOW, Monday.--What can only be described as an equine tragedy occurred at the Oakey Park colliery some time between Saturday afternoon and early on Sunday morning,…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.--A goods train near Te Kuiti met with a peculiar accident to-day. There hundred cases of benzine near the…
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A de[?] representing the whole of the numbe[?] councils in the metropolitan re waited on Mr. Dooley, Chief Secretary to-day, for the purpose of…
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All can the west the pastures are almost te high, but the maturity stage having been reached the grass is now drying and becoming of an i[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For the Y.W.C.A. Artillery Fires a Shot
The Royal Australian Artillery, under Lieutenant-Colonel H. Cox Taylor and Lieutenant-Colonel Thornthwaite, are rallying to the support of the Y.W.C.A…
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A deputation from all the councils in the metropolitan area was received by Mr. Dooley (Chief Secretary) this morning, on the question of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires at Parkes PARKES
The danger of bush fires has been [?]mphanised very early this season. Four outbreaks occurred in one day near Albert, due to sparks from a locomotive…
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Mr. Dooley. Chief Secretary, was yesterday, asked by a deputation representing all the councils in the metropolitan area to amend the existing Fire Brigades Act in the direction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Back From Tokio. Australians' Thrilling Experience. Convention That Began with a Fire
A party of five Australian ladies, young, alert, joyful, typical Australians in every sense, lauded in Sydney yesterday morning from the Nikko Maru…
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It is well that farmers, and the men on the land generally, should take stock of the position in which they stand with regard to the prevention of the spread…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blaze at Circular Quay Two Firemen Injured
Starting in some sawdust, a fire which broke out about 7.15 last night practically gutted premises occupied by E. C. Elliott and Co., Ltd., East. Circular Quay…
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