Defective Flue Causes Cottage Fire
Through a defective flue, fire extensively damaged on Saturday morning a five roomed cottage, occupied by Victor Boyd, in Good-street, Granville…
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Fires Spread Rain Hoped For Widespread Struggle Wagga
Heat-wave conditions continue over Riverina, and, meanwhile, the bush fires in the Holbrook district are gradually spreading and…
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A Buick motor car, owned by John Gannon, Mossgiel was totally destroyed by fire in Lachlan Street, Hay. The three occupants of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fires Country Towns Suffer. Big Waste at Tingha
A fire occurred at Tingha, a tin mining township near inverell, on Monday, and within two bears the business portion of the town was reduced to ashes. All attempts to stop…
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After stealing several silk dresses from Mr. Lahood Bolous's shop in King-street, Newtown, late last night, a thief set fire to the building…
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THE railway bridge at Liberty-street. Newtown, caught fire last night. It is believed that a spark from an engine caused the blaze. Firemen from…
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While Mary Cecilia Munro [?] of Dalley-street, Lidcombe, was lighting the copper fire on January 28 her dress caught fire, and she was fatally…
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About 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning, a fire occurred at tile home of Mr. E. Clarke, Sarsfield-street, Blacktown. All members of the family were away…
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In some of the southern suburbs, the scrub is very thick in places, and in summer time especially, it is a menace to property…
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Strong winds have aggravated the bush-fire situation in the Riverina. Messages from the Tumut district state that new outbreaks have occurred, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Woollen Mills. Threatened by Fire. Albury
This afternoon the Albury Woollen Mills, erected at a cost of £150,000, narrowly escaped serious damage, if not destruction, by fire. Just before the mill hands stopped work…
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The big firm on Womargama station, about 13 miles from Melbrook which was thought to be in check as Wednesday night, is now sweeping…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MISADVENTURES Clothing on Fire. Woman Burned to Death
When a house at Lidcombe (Sydney), occupied by Mrs. Mary Cocllia Monro, aged fifty-eight years, was damaged by fire last week, the…
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Fierce bush fires continue to rage in various parts of Tasmania. In the thickly timbered Tyerna Valley, one timber mill, owned by Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Clothes on Fire Woman's Awful Death Melbourne
WHILE Mrs. C. E. Denniston was lighting a five at her home at Dandenong-road, Mulvern, her clothes became ignited. Her husband tried to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Where Fires Raged Black Ruin in Tas. Plight of Farmers Burnie, Tas
THE WORST bush fires in the history of the north-west coast of Tasmania continue to menace settlers in the back-districts, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →First Came a Burglar and Then a Fire in Newtown Shop
FIRE followed a burglary at a shop in King-street, Newtown, last night. About [?] the [?] discovered in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine on Fire Three Men Dead 25 Others Trapped Pittsburg, February 3
Three men are dead and 22 others trapped, and believed to be lost, in a burning coal mine of the Terminal Coal Company. All are officials and…
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A bush fire is raging fiercely two miles south-east of Willunga, which is about 30 miles south of Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires. In the Border District. Still Raging. Firefighters Exhausted. Albury
Advice received this afternoon from the fire front at Woomargama, 25 miles east of Albury, stated that the fire was not burning an fiercely as yesterday. The Wymah fire, which…
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