Fire in City Shipping Offices Damaged Firemen's Good Save
Firemen had to break in two front doors to get at a fire on the ground floor of a five-story building of the Holland-Australia Steamship Co., in…
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Boys at the Bondi School Hearing About Fire Alarms
The value of fire alarms was impressed upon the boys of the Bondi School by Mr. F. Smith, of the Waverley Fire Station. He told them, too, that they should not allow anyone to play with the alarms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Ordeal of Cross Fire Woman Witness Upset Effect on Juries
The lengths to which cross-examination might go and its value to a fury were subjects discussed at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day…
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TOCUMWAL.--A Are occurred at the office of Messrs. Quirk and Co. Proprietary, Ltd., through the bursting of a tin of rabbit poison. Fortunately, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Out of Date Gladesville Fire Station
The secretary of the A.L.P. Glades ville Branch asked Ryde Council last night to make representations to the Fire Commissioners regarding the…
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The test of the extension ladder included in the equipment of the Circular Quay Fire Brigade Station was carried out in secret…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stop Insurances on Churches As a Result of Fires. Canada Companies Will No Longer Underwrite. Quebec, December 29
Leading Canadian insurance companies, as a result of repeated fires that have destroyed Catholic Church property Sperty during the year, and which many…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lost Schooner Story From the Solomons Events Which Preceded Fire Captain and his Crew
Some remarkable reports are in circulation in shipping circles concerning the loss of the American-wooden four- masted schooner. Defiance, 604 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disastrous Fires. Shops Burnt
Frong Creek, near Albury (N.S.W.), experienced its second serious fire within the year on Saturday last, the offices of the Bank of New South Wales, J. Driscoll's hair[?]ing…
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What might have easily been a very serious fire, was arrested in the early stage, at the shop occupied by Mr. Blackabey, of Railway Parade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Ballarat. Melbourne
The Sunshine biscuit and confectionery manufacturing works at Ballarat East were getted by fire late last night. The damage is estimated at between £12,000 and £15,000…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Brigades Test. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—As a user of telescopic laddeis for some years, I desire to say that this class of ladder is being used more every year on account of quickness in raising to a great height,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Non-Stop Game Footballers Play on Fire at a Match
Nothing daunts the enthusiastic foot-baller in England, spectator or player, and last Saturday's match of the Holton Wanderers, at which there were…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Engine at Fault Queanbeyan Fire Coroner's Finding Pitiable Position Queanbeyan
"The turbine fire engine was defective, and the best men in the world could not have produced satisfactory results."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motoring for Those Who Dont Through Dust and Heat and Bush Fires Norman Smith's Dash From Brisbane
BEAUTIFUL weather for a record run, I don't think,"…
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LOCKHART.--On Thursday night, a lire destroyed a weatherboard dwelling, occupied by Mrs. W. M'Clure and family, and owned by the Lockhart Shire…
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A fire at Risbey's Joinery factory on the water-front at Battery Point last night demolished the carpenter's shop. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Beach Fire Stories the First Corroboree
This is about the first corroboree. When Sydney was only hush it belonged to black people, who lived in little huts made of bark. There was a man who lived…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →'Buses on Fire Excitement at Edgecliffe
There was excitement in Edgecliffe road at about 10.30 p.m. yesterday, when a large motor 'bus driven and partly owned by Benjamin C. Radford,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House Destroyed by Fire. Lockhart
Last night a fire destroyed a weatherboard dwelling-house occupied by Mrs. W. McClure and her family, and owned by the Lockhart Shire Council. The premises were insured…
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