Hero's Death the Canberra Fire
Dr. Palmer, Government Medical Officer, told the City Coroner yesterday that Reginald Craythorn. the steward who lost his life in the Canberra fire…
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Ship Hero's Death Canberra Blaze How Craythorn Died No Light on Origin
THE Coroner yesterday returned a finding of accidental death in the case of Reginald Craythorn, hero of the Canberra tragedy, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Ltd
Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., reports that the operations of the company for the year ended June 30 last, subject to audlt, have resulted in an underwriting surplus of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Canberra Fire. the Inquiry. Coroner's Finding
An Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the disastrous fire which occurred on the interstate steamer Canberra while berthed at Howard Smith's wharf at the foot of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tribute to Hero Coroner on Craythorn Canberra Fire Echo
The City Coroner to-day issued a statement which he hopes may afford some consolation to the relatives of Reginold Craythorn, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Events of the Day Glasgow Fire Many Tenements Ablaze Enormous Damage
Hundreds of persons in Glasgow were rendered homeless by a fire that started in the famous Kelvin Hall, on Tuesday last, and spread to adjacent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Hell Fire Corner
INHERE was heavy shelling on the corduroy tracks that ran past the A.M.C. A donkey with two panniers of hot soup tor the front line came…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Grain Store Fire £20,000 Damage
WELLINGTON (N.Z.). Friday. Fire damaged a large grain store at Invercargill, owned by Wright, Stephenson, and Company. Poor…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Fire at Suspect Shot in One Arm Sensational Arrest
A SUSPECT was started in sensational circumstances at Joe Gardiner's boot store in Central Square, City, last night. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Factory Fire Damage £30,000 Explosions of Petrol Melbourne
The boot factory of Alfred Payne, in Park-street, Collingwood, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Centre of Bight Transcontinental Held Up Passengers' Camp Fire Adelaide
The East-West express arrived at Adelaide at 9 o'clock this morning 14½ hours late, after a delay 218 miles west of Port Augusta owing to a washaway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How Reginald Craythorne Gave Up His Own Life That Others Might Live Brave Steward's Heroism in the Canberra Fire
PEACE hath her heroes no less renowned than war! The honor roll of every-day life is filled with the names of those who were prepared to die so that their friends could live. TO Posterity, Reg Craythorne, the heroic steward of the s.s…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →An Arson Pact Is Alleged Launch Burnt Out "£50 to Do[?]t"
AN alleged confession of having de[?]erstely set fire to a launch for £50 so that the owner could get £750 [?] money…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Health Served by Modern Gas Fires
"A gas fire, prop[?]y constructed and fixed, not only does not vitiate the sir, but is a valuable adjunct to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Bus on Fire. Petrol Tank Bursts. Three People Burnt
Whalle passing the corner of Maclcay-street and Darlinghurst-road, at about 8.35 o'clock on Saturday night, a new bus, owner by Mr. W. P. Thomas, of King's Cross, caught fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →General News Fire at Station
GUNNEDAH.--The men's quarters at Goolhi Station were destroyed by fire early on Monday morning. Thomas Parklin, who, with his son, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Clean Sweep" in Launch Fire
On July 31 last year a fire occurred on the launch Yukoner, and the circumstances were such that an inquiry was held by the City Coroner (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hero of Industry "Man of Concealed Fire" the Craythorn Fund
"... Men of concealed fire, that doth not break out with noise and heal in the ordinary circumstances of life, but shows itself sufficiently in all great enterprises…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Radio Shop Gutted Blaze in Martin Place
A radio shop in the Mercantile Mutual Building was gutted by fire last night, and damage amounting lo many hundreds of pounds was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blaze in Martin Place Brigades' Good Work
Firemen from Headquarters and George Street North had a hard task to extinguish a fire which started in the premises of the Radio Electric…
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