Fire Risk to Save Life a Prompt Officer
Alfred E. Sharpe, curtain manufacturer, owes his life to the prompt [?] of Deputy-Chief Officer Grahame, of Headquarters…
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In the Bush To-day Fleeing From Fire
Nature notes may be made at the [?]reside Watch the cracks in a tog and note the variety of creeping things which issue and scurry to safety. The [?] fare badly, but bee[?]es…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Passing of the Pioneers the Veterans That Helped to Blaze the Track Deaths Announced Since Our Last Issue Mr.frederic Harrison
Mr. Frederic Harrison the well known writer and philoshoper has died in England at the age of ninety-one his particular [?] in the temple of intellect is aomewhat difficult to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush Fires More Outbreaks Reported
There was a further series of bush fires in the suburbs yesterday, and nearly 20 reports were filed at headquarters this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bush Fires Sporadic Outbreaks Albion Park
A fire on the property of Mr. G. Pearson, "Calderwood," was fought and beaten by a hundred men. The damage included 100 acres of grass…
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On Monday, about 3.30 p.m., a small wooden cottage, owned by Mrs. Michaelson, and occupied by Mr. William Ledingham and family, was, with its…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Creosote Fights Fire
It is generally assumed that a bridge built of cre[?]oted [?]pers would burn more readily, in the event of its catching fire, then would a bridge of non-treated timber. An…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House Catches Fire
While searching for white-ants in his house in Grose-street, Parramatta, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. H. Barton upset a lighted kerosene lamp, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Tyrone" Fire Inquiry Being Held
At St. Marys on Tuesday Mr. Arthur Judges, district coroner, began an inquiry into the fire at "Tyrone," St. Marys, on December 23. After bearing of a couple of witnesses the coroner adjoorned the inquiry till this Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Store Gutted. Fire in Melbourne. Heavy Losses. Melbourne
Chinese living in Little Bourke-street, at the rear of a building occupied as a reserve stock store by Payne's Bon Marche, became panicstricken early this morning when they found…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Destroyed by Fire. Car Leaps Over Cliff. Lithgow
Mr. Anderson, of the Sydney firm of seedsmen, and his son were motoring at Mount Wilson, and derided to go on towards Mount Irvine, which is seven miles further. After…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →'Twixt Fire and Gale Aviator's Close Call GOULBURN
Captain Summers yesterday flow in his Avro from Richmond, in the teeth of a gale. With the country beneath invisible through bush fires and smoke,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Awakened by Flames Woman's Narrow Escape Fire at Stanmore
Mrs. Robert Missingham, Durham street, Stanmore, had a narrow escape in the early hours of this morning, when a fire broke out in her bedroom…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires of 1922
Last year was a record in the history of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade. The last week of 1922 was the heaviest ever experienced in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crops on Fire
From Bellicent, a new member: "I was on a farm ten miles out of Wagga, and one day we all had a very exciting time when a fire swept over my…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Mudgee
MUDGEE, Saturday.—A fire, in a storage shed at the rear of the Mudgee Guardian Office yesterday morning consumed 80 bundles of paper and damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Cabinet Works
An outbreak of fire occurred yesterday afternoon at the Alliance Cabinet Works in Harbor-street. Firemen extinguished the flames with hand chemicals after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MOTORING What Makes Engine Miss Fire
Misfiring should be carefully diagnosed. The symptoms are quite familiar to every motorist, namely. Interruption of the smooth and regular firing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →News in Brief Fire at Newspaper Office
Mudgee, Saturday. -- A fire destroyed a shed containing 80 bundles of paper belonging to the "Mudgee Guardian." The damage is estimated at £200, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oilfield in Flames Romance of the Roma Bore on Fire for Nine Months
THERE is a touch of tragedy in the recent decision of the Queensland Government definitely to abandon oil boring operations at Roma…
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