P.f.a. Fire £200,000 Concerned Proposed Compromise
In the Equity Court yesterday Mr. Justice Harvey had before him an application, instituted by Horace Bately Allard, liquidator of the Pastoral Finance…
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Crystal Palace Midnight Fire Much Damage Done London, Friday Night
Serious damage was done to the Crystal Palace by a fire which broke out after midnight. Sir Joseph Paxton designed the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Fay's What Was the Cause? Theory and Denial
Owners who were losers in the two fires in the city on Thursday spent most of yesterday in recovering what they could from the debris…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farming Verses "The Mallee Fire and Other Verses," by C. H. Souter. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson.)
Dr. C. H. Souter, of South Australia, is one of the most pleasing of the "middle-class" verse-writers of Australia. In the present volume he…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Picture Show Blaze Slight Panic at Eastwood
An outbreak of fire in the Eastwood Picture Palace last night caused slight panic, but nobody was hurt. The fire occurred shortly before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rome P.O. Fire
LONDON, Saturday.—A huge fire in the Post Office at Rome did £200,000 worth of damage. Telegraph communication with England and Prance was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Film Fire One-Minute Thriller Audience Alarmed
When the last picture was being shown at the Eastwood Picture, Palace, Eastwood, last night, a fire occurred in the film box. It caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →City Fires
Both the Manning-chambers, in Manning-square, city, and Edward Fay and Sons' bootshop, at the intersection of Pitt and Liverpool streets, which were severely damaged by…
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Films worth £500 were burnt in the operating room of the Eastwood Picture Palace on Saturday night. Though there was an audience of 500 when the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Giant Blaze N.Z. Motor Garage 62 Cars Burned
AUCKLAND (N.Z.). Monday. Gillett' motor garaga, with 62 cars, was destroyed by fire to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Brisbane Fire Brisbane
A fire completely gutted the boot factory of Christensen and Co., in Manilla Street. The loss is considered to be over £30,000. Insurances on the stack and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire
A weatherboard cottage, containing four rooms, occupied by John Henry Quinn, in Underwood-street, Homebush, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. An adjoining residence…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coonamble Fire Experiment Farm Suffers COONAMBLE
A me at the Coonamble Experimentation Farm destroyed the principal shed. Containing valuable machinery and the millet crop. The damage,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Broken Hill Broken Hill
A fire occurred on Friday afternoon at the poppet-head of the main shaft of the South Blocks mine. A good save was made by the mine and town fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Rome. Post Office Damaged. London, March 23
A message from Rome says that a huge are occurred in the Post Office, resulting in damage estimated at £200,000. Many telegraph machines were destroyed,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two City Fires Insurance, £175,000
The fire assessors have been at work among the rains caused by last week's fires at Fay's boot warehouse and Manning Chambers in Pitt Street, City…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →House Gutted by Fire
FORBES, Monday. Good work by the brigade prevented the extension of a fire which broke out in a dwelling-house at the rear of Curry's boot shop in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sparks From Steam Tram Seven Fires in Two Days
"I want to point out the danger of the Sans Souci steam tram," said Aid, Baxter at last night's meeting of the Rockdale Council…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in Motor Garage. Auckland
A garage, owned by Gillett Motors, Limited, was burned. Over 60 cars were destroyed. The total loss is estimated at between £35,000 and £40,000. Many valuable privately-owned…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Destructive Fire Water Supply Inadequate PORTLAND
Two shops occupied by Frew, a tailor, and Wilson, a bootmaker, and two boarding-houses, Bryant's and Potts's, In Williewa-street, were…
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