By Fire Thousands Homeless District Wiped Out Calcutta
In a disastrous fire at Tavoy (Burma) the business quarter was wiped out. Three hundred houses were…
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Fatal Fire. Three Lives Lost. Mother and Children. MELBOURNE
Entering her burning, home in Tungamah, a small town near Yarrawonga, early this morning. In an endeavour to save some of her children's clothing, a woman became…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Big Fire at Holden's Motor Body Building Works Off William-street
GENERAL VIEW OF THE RUINS YESTERDAY MORNING. The building contained valuable plant and about 200 motor cars. The damapre is estimated at £100,000…
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Damage, estimated at £2000, was caused by a fire which destroyed the joinery workshop of John Cody and Co., Auburn-street, early this morning…
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The grocer's shop of Caradoc Davies, Oxford-street. Epping was severely damaged by fire early to-day. Stock and fittings in the shop, valued at…
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Damage estimated at over £2000 was caused by a fire which destroyed Mr. John Cody's joinery shop at the rear of Taylor and Lockwood's garage early…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Careless Use of Fire. Albury
Before Mr. D. Parker, P.M., Ernest Henry Atkinson was fined £3, with £4/15/ costs, for having left a fire, used in a grass paddock, without having thoroughly extingusihed it…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Residence Destroyed by Fire. Wingham
The residence of Mr. F. D. Manwarring, at Khatabundah, near Wingham, has been destroyed by fire, together with furniture and effects. The occupants were able to says…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The World of Women Blaze of Pink Over 500 at Party Boy Scouts' Ball
Over 500, mostly children, were present at the Wentworth yesterday at the Pixie Pink Party, organised for the benefit of the Boy Scouts' Ball…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Fire at Freezing Works. Wellington (N.z.)
Borthwick's freezing works at Waliara have been damaged by fire, spolling yesterday's "kill" of beef. The slaughtermen are working, however, and operations will not be…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Alleged Arson the Glenbrook Fire Hannon Committed Fob Trial
As a result of the coroner's inquiry into the fire that broke out, on 10th February, in premises in Wascoe Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Damage Is Exaggerated Mr. Holden's Facts About 100 Cars Lost
That the fire at Holden's Motor Body Factory, Dowling Street, on Wednesday night, did not do the great amount of damage asserted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Real Life Story: a Tale of the Far North of Australia How a Woman who Faced Untold Hardship Threw a Fortune Into the Fire -- How She Saved Her Baby From the Attack of a Dog that Went Mad -- Terrifying Nights Listening to Dingoes -- Saved From the Blacks
I WAS married in Winton (Q.), but the climate not suiting me, my husband and I decided to visit my brother and his wife at Bambaroo, on the Ingham line. Imagine our surprise when we got there. My brother…
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The Royal Commission into the causes of the recent bush fires in New South Wales and methods to deal with similar outbreaks will open its inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Blaze at Manly in Refreshment Rooms
MUCH damage was done by a fire which broke out in the refreshment rooms of James Brown, the Corso, Manly, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melb. Garage Blaze Five Cars Destroyed Melbourne
COS[?] motor garage at [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More Fires 1926 a Record Year Many False Alarms
There was a record number of fire calls in Sydney district during 1926. In a report tabled in the Legislative Assembly today the Board of Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →While Fire Raged Two Suspects Caught
John Terence, 24, blindmaker, and Stanley Sampson, 25, pipe maker, were committed for trial from the Central Court to-day on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Fiend's Record 3726 Calls in 1926
During last year the Sydney fire district received 3726 fire calls, which constituted a record, being in increase of 1554 calls over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burning Wasps How Bushfire Started Gundagai
Damage estimated at £1400 resulted from an attempt to burn a wasps' nest. A young man employed on Mrs. T. Scott's place at Tumblong was…
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