The Suevio. Damaged by Fire
A fire has occurred in the bunkers of the While Sfar liner Suevic which is bound from Australia to the United Kingdom. A cable message received yesterday by the…
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Fire in Bunkers. Suevic at Durban
Cable advice received by the Sydney Marine Underwriters' Association states that the White Star steamer Suevic, from Australia, arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chemical Works Fire Thistle Chemical Co
Bursting into the Thistle Chemical Product Co., store in Day Street at about 8.3 o'clock last night, fire men were confronted by a wall of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Roof Damaged Fire at North Sydney
The shingle roof covering two shops and a residence in Blue's Point-road, North Sydney, caught fire this afternoon, and firemen from Crow's Nest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Fire Sprinkler Deceived by Heat
Owing to excessive heat the mechanism of sprinklers at David Jones, Ltd., gave an alarm of fire at headquarters to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Fire Engine a Concession to Penrith
Mr R. B. Walker, M.L.A., has been informed by Mr T. Smith, president of the Fire Brigades Board, that it has been decided to install a motor engine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →City Fire. Day-street Building. Brigade's Good Save
The ground floor of a two-story building in Day-street, near Bathurst-street, city, occupied by the Thistle Chemical Products Company, was badly damaged by fire last night…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Cinema Fire. Findings of Jury. Montreal, Jan. 13
A coronor's Jury found Ameen Lawand, owner of the Laurier Palace Cinema, and the assistant manager, Arle, and the head-usher, Bazzy, criminally responsible for the death of 78…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Spreading Fire Series of Mistakes When Petrol Ignited Melbourne
When James McKendry, a storekeeper of Yarram, was pouring petrol from a tin the fumes Ignited and enveloped him in flames…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not Binding on Crown Use of Fire Act Important Point Parkes
That the Careless Use of Fire Act is not binding on the Grown was a point upheld by the magistrade in a case at the Tottenham…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Victoria Launches Bush Fire Prevention Crusade Melbourne
With the approach of the bush fire season, the Victorian authorities are commencing action to prevent terrible losses of life and property, such as occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railways Blamed Started Big Bush Fire P.M.'s Finding Gundagai
The big bush fires that swept South Gundagai and Tarrabanda on December 10, were declared by Mr, Harrison, P.M., today, to have been caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wedara's White Blaze Racing to the Front at Rosehill
Into the straight in the second division of the Maiden Two-Year-Old. Neck and neck are galloping Valora, on the rails, with her nose just in front, and Morpheus, But rushing into the picture comes the while nose of Wedara, and the judge saw that white blaze pass the post a length and a half in front of Valora. Morpheus could not keep up the pace, and dropped back to seventh place. Bavarde was third…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Preventing Bush Fires Motor Flying Patrols MELBOURNE
The Forest Commission and the Police Department are co-operating in the provision of special motor flying patrols, which will operate in country…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To Check Bush Fires Victorian Campaign Melbourne
Country bush-fire brigades are to be established throughout Victoria. A start will be made in Eastern Cippsland, which will be visited this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Near Wagga Fought in Heat Wave Farmers' Heavy Loss Wagga
On Saturday a disastro fire broke out on Erin Vale, the property of Mr. T J. A. Fitzpatrick and spread over many miles of country before its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blaze in Hotel Byron Bay
At 3.30 a.m. yesterday the Great Northern Hotel narrowly escaped destruction by fire. A boarder who happened to go on to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires. Warehouse Gutted. Valuable Properties Menaced. Melbourne
A large number of valuable properties containing stocks valued at many thousands of pounds in the heart of the city, were menaced this afternoon by a fire which gutted a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →20 Miles Blaze Damage Near Junee 500 Fight Flames Junee
WITH the temperature about 107 degrees, 500 men fought a bush fire 18 miles from Junee, The fire was on a 20 miles front, and did…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Fire Stations. Wagga
A new fire station was opened at wagga last night by Mr. T. J. Smith, M.L.C., president of the N.S.W. Board of Fire Commissioners. The premises are of brick and of…
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