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When the Leger stand caught fire at Victoria Park yesterday, one disgruntled bookmaker, who had been hard hit over Dunbeath, reckoned that it could be attributed to some of the runners behind the Cooltrim mare…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This article is of special interest, in view of the fact that, owing to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the importation into Australia of cattle, sheep and pigs from, Britain has been prohibited…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The partial destruction of the leger stand at the Victoria Park racecourse yesterday afternoon provided an altogether unexpected diversion to the thrilling pastime of fortune-hunting. But just as Nero fiddled while the seat of his mighty empire was being reduced to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cabled from London that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonaid has galvanised a little much-needed activity into the Tite-Barnacles of the Foreign Office, a band of circumlocutionary officials who have adopted the tortoise as the emblem of their…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Two cottages, were burnt[?] out and another damaged by a fire in Hastings-parade, North Bondi, early yesterday morning. The fire broke out in a weatherboard…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Shortly before midnight on Sunday the Fire B[?]igade received a call to an outbreak in a cottage in Marsh-street, Clyde. They found three separate fire in the building, and after…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →During thunderstorms at the weekend lightning ignited the grass boundaries and Walgrove and Nelylona two properties on the Jerliderie-road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon fire was discovered in the Leger stand at the Victoria Park racecourse. The flames, fanned by a strong breeze, had…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The police are inquiring into an outbreak of fire in a cottage occupied by Thomas Buckley, a night watchman, in Marsh Street, Clyde…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A grass fire broke out on friday afternoon on Mr. Thomas aovies' Wallgrove properly, and spread to Narrawidgery, the property of Mr. James Gibson. The fire destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →COONAMBLE, Saturday A fire that broke out last night destroyed the office of the "Coonamble Times" and adjoining [?]ngs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Whilst Mrs. Christian McWhinnie, Unara-street, Campsie, was absent from her home on Saturday night, the house was entered by thieves, who…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Nero fiddled while Rome was burning." Punters at Victoria Park on Saturday went on backing winners--or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A thunderstorm was responsible for the grass fire on Jerilderie-road. the lightning firing the grass on the holdings of Mr. T. Davies, Walgrove, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The most disastrous fire for the past 30 years started on Friday night, and destroyed seven business promises in one of the main streets, facing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An outbreak of fire occurred this afternoon near the homstead of W. B. Schiller, at Lake Albert, about four miles from Wagga. Telephone calls summonod the Wagga Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Six aeroplanes purchased from France by the Persian Government have arrived at Bushire also a few French aviators as instructors in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After leaving his sweetheart's residence in High Street. Miller's Point, shortly after 9 o'clock last night. Frederick Stewart Sparks (16½), of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North Bondi was the scene of a spectacular fire in the early hours of yesterday morning, when two weatherboard cottages, with their contents,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A disastrous fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Chapman's, Ltd., 188 Sussex; Street, late yesterday afternoon, following an explosion…
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