Rolled Into Fire. Baby's Sad Death
Robert Cartwright Ogden, aged eight months son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ogden, of Jaspers-road, Baulkham Hills, died on May 25, as the result of burns…
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"Not Advanced Enough." No Fire Brigade
Last Friday, at Parramatta, the district coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) held an inquiry with reference to a fire at Quaker's Hill…
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"Despite the fact that only about one, small cottage fire occurs in the municipality each year, the Waverley Council has to contribute £1800 a…
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At the Parramatta Court on Thursday last, before Mr. W. S. Arnott, S.M., Arthur Leslie Mays (19) and Reginald Colin Mays (17), brothers, residing at…
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A destructive fire last night completely destroyed the general store premises conducted by R. Breckenridge, near the Forster Post Office…
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When a fire occurred at the Sandown meat works, Parramatta River, on May 24 last, Chief Officer Jackson reported that the water supply was…
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Another attempt was made to burn the Gordon Public School yesterday, when a fire was discovered at 6.18 p.m. in the manual training room, which…
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On April 16, an unoccupied weatherboard cottage, at Quaker's-road, Quaker's Hill, was destroyed by fire. It was a three-room cottage, owned by Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Murrays'. Coroner Opens Inquiry. Old Employee Closely Questioned
In the course of his evidence, one of the witnesses, who has been in the employ of Murray Bros. for thirty years, said that when he had finished smoking he was in the habit of putting his pipe under the top, before transferring it to his pocket. The coroner said the statement was perfectly ridiculous,. and told…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CATSPAWS Increased Number of Fires All Over State Lady Who Smoked in Bed Insurance Companies Disquieted
This is one old recipe for starting a fire without being on the spot. Tie a bit of meat to a string and hang it to a kerosene lamp. Light the lamp and lock a hungry cat up in the room with it…
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Where there are small water mains, such as the [?]andown Most Works, establishments are warned by the chief engineer of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sorell This play was bracketed with Miss Millisent Armstrong's "Fire" for third prize in "The Dally Telegraph" Play Competition. (Copyright by "The Dally Telegraph" Newspaper Company, Limited.) SYNOPSIS
ACT I.--Mrs. Weston, typifying the spirit of modernity and in her thirties, surreptitiously enters the lounge of Richard Soreli's house in a fashionable Melbourne suburb She abstracts…
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COONABARABRAN. -- A four-roomed unoccupied cottage at Ulamambri, owned by W. S. Leesen, was destroyed by fire. It was insured by the Graziers and…
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Three fires have occurred within six months at Gordon Public School, and the police suspect attempts at incendiarism. An outbreak on Tuesduy…
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SINGLETON. -- A third fire, within the space of a few months, has occurred on the Singleton railway bridge. The damage in the latest, case was only slight…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TOPICS. What on the Home Fires
We heard something during the war about keeping the home fires burning. The present policy of the Australian Governments is to drench the home fires With water. Australia may want…
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A fire noticed by a cabman, when passing 60 York Street, city, at 3 a.m. yesterday, wits soon extinguished by the fire brigade. The…
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Prompt notification of a fire in Up[?]ton's Soap Works [?] street. Redfern, last night saved the building…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Saving Shavings Carelessness Increases Fire Dangers Material and Moral Risks Powers of Inspection and Control Sought
Leaving out of account the damage done by bush fires, properly to the amount of several millions of pounds goes up in smoke every year in New South Wales. Legislation will be introduced next session, if political exigencies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sorell This play was bracketed with Miss Millisent Armstrong's "Fire" for third prize in "The Daily Telegraph" Play Competition. (Copyright by "The Daily Telegraph" Newspaper Company, Limited.) SYNOPSIS
ACT 1. -- Mrs. Weston, typifying the spirit or modernity and in her thirties, surreptitiously enters the lounge of Richard Sorell's house in a fashionable Melbourne suburb. She abstracts…
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