Curtains on Fire
Owing to a light coming into contact with curtains a fire broke out in a back bedroom at the residence of Mrs. Mary Agnes Stinson in…
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Owing to a light coming into contact with curtains a fire broke out in a back bedroom at the residence of Mrs. Mary Agnes Stinson in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The back room of a six-roomed house occupied by Mary Agnes Pinson, in Canterbury-street, South Ashfield, was severely damaged by a fire which broke…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. N. G. Sparks, Formerly Chief Officer of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade, who was farewelled last night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Further shooting took place in Belfast this morning. There were many casualties, including a woman, who was wounded while in her shop…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →What the men of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades—both permanent and volunteer—thought of Mr. N.G. Sparks as their Chief Officer, could not be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Reserved judgment was delivered in an appeal by the defendants in an action in respect of an amount claimed under a policy of insurance, tried before the Chief Justice and a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A shed, containing a quantity of lucerne hay, and some stacks which were close to it, were destroyed by fire on Mr. Arthur Woolley's farm at Melrose on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →It remained for that energetic little body, the Loftus Park Progress Association, to raise the matter of the necessity for a fire brigade in Merrylands. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The timely arrival of the motor fire engine, from Bathurst saved the demolition of ten stacks of hay belonging to Harry Owens at Wallarol, On…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire broke out last night in a box factory at Broughton-street, Glebo, occupied by Frank Reid. Brigades from Glebe, Pyrmont, and George-street West attended. The basement…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mrs. Dorothy Duffy, aged 25, who lived with her husband in Fennell-street, Parramatta, was standing near the stove in the kitchen at her home…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →What is regarded by both police and fire brigado officers as a suspicious outbreak of fire occurred on the sixth floor of the building occupled by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When the Irish Conference meets in London, Mr. Churchill will briefly explain the object of summoning the Irish leaders, namely, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The competition for the Hurstville (N.S.W.) Memorial Town Hall and School of Arts is dragging through troublous times. First there was the contest with the Institute of Architects,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →There are circumstances connected with a fire in the record room on the top floor of the stores of the Country Produce Selling Co., Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Immense damage has been done in the Nevertire and Warren districts by bush fires. [?] Happy Vale, Oxley Park, and Lucknow Stations…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A bush fire broke out in Mr. W. Smith's Thornton property in the Trangie district, and by night four adjoining holdings had been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A fire broke out shortly before midnight last night on the first floor of Carter's Printing Works, 377 Sussex Street. Fire engines turned out from headquarters,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Damage by fire estimated at about £500 was done on the first floor of Gow's printing works (trading as Carter's printing works), in Sussex-street, late…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire broke out late last night in Carter's printing works, at 377 Sussex-street, city. The first floor of the works, together with its contents, was slightly damaged by fire and…
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