Foam Sprayer Fire Out in Three Minutes American Appliance Melbourne
The foam sprayer, a new American fire-fighting appliance, proved its use today, when it was used for the first time in Australia…
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2,755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 138
On Fire and Sinking in Ocean How the Ayrshire Went Down
OUTLET NEEDLE VALVES to regulate the discharge from the upper outlets at Cordeaux Dam. The official opening is to-day. BRITISH STEAMER'S BLAZING END.--The Ayrshire, with a cargo of wool and tallow from Australia, on fire off Ceylon. H. M. Sloop Lupin played water on her and took her in tow, but could not save her. (See other picture.)…
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EXTENSIVE damage was done by a bush fire which started near the Government Telephone Camp en T. E. Smith's…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire Fiend in Vic. Twenty Miles Front Near Previous Holocaust Two Missing : Others in Peril Hundreds of Fighters Engaged Melbourne
A YEAR AGO devastating fire, which caused unprecedented lou of life, swept over wide tract of Victoria. Serious fires are now raging at Chiltera and Beechworth, in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ch[?] Situation Parleys Hang Fire While Chen Protests Objects to British Troops Full Text of Terms Offered Dropping Missionary Favors London
THE report that discussions at Hankow between Mr. Eugene Chen and Mr. O'Malley have been broken off it incorrect. From information at present available, it appears that during…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Disastrous Bush Fires Extensive Damage Two Sinks Swept
Fanned by a strong wind, a disastrous fire has swept through large areas of grass land in the Wagga (N.S.W.) district, and has wrought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires. Heavy Losses. Fences, Grass, and Sheep. ALBURY
Further serious bush fires have occured in the western portion of the Albury district, and there have been heavy losses of grass, fencing, fodder, and sheep. As far as can be…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bush Fires Rage Destruction in South Many Sheep Lost Bendabo
The bush fires which started yesterday from Telephone Camp, Bendabo, on T. Smith's Urangleline property, burnt 2000 acres. Mrs. A Pletsch, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Vic. Bush Fires Timely Rain Averts Fresh Disaster But Still a Danger Thousands Damage Melbourne
NO loss of life, but very extentiy. damage, has been caused by the bush fires which have raged in the heavily timbered and graced…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fires Sweep Over Great Areas Fanned by Fierce Gale Motor Starts Blaze Wagga
Several fires occurred yesterday, an outbreak in the morning near Belmore Bridge being due, it is said, to a motor car catching fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Bush Fire Demon (Lay of an Anzac.) A Tribute to Florrie Hodges and a Comparison, with apologies to Lord Macaulay
There are bards who have sung of their heroes so bold, Who fought 'gainst great odds in the brave days of old; But in Gippsland a heroine, yet but a child Bears the marks of her cross like the Christ meek and mild…
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Alighting from a tram in George Street, near King Street, City, last night, Mrs. Hill. 50. was knocked down by a fire engine. Central Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Station Wentworthville's Need
Wentworthville is badly in need of a fire station. Its fire brigade is like a vagrant— it has no home of any kind. Certainly, Captain McDowell has the…
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The woman who was knocked down by a fire-engine in George-st. last night. has been identified as Mrs. Alton HIll of Linden. Her condition to-day…
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Instead of building a decent fire station on their own land, facing Guildford-road near the Methodist Church, the Fire Commissioners have recently, acquired…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hit by Fire Engine Woman Badly Injured
Mrs. J. Hill, whose address is unknown, was knocked down by a fire engine in George Street, near King Street, early last night. The engine,…
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When a Leyland motor-lorry backfired at the Neptune Oil Company's motor spirit store and garage at Bourke Road, Alexandria early last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer on Fire Extensive Damage Melbourne
Awakened by the crackling of flames on the H[?]lmeade, a small coastal steamer lying at Maize Products Pty, Ltd. wharf, Yarraville, at 2 a.m. to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire at Yass. General Store Burnt. Yass
This morning Snow's general store was turned to the ground. The building was a fine two-story structure in a central position It seemed for a time that the fire would…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In a Storm Fire Destroys House Albury
Fire, believed to have been caused by lightning during a severe electrical storm yesterday, destroyed the eight-roomed, dwelling, with contents,…
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