Three Fires New School Destroyed Bathurst
The new public school at Walbrook, near Black Springs, in the Oberon district, with about 2100 worth of school material, has been totally destroyed by fire at night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Fires & bushfires, 1927
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Bucket Brigade Fights Fire
Brisbane, Wednesday. -- Residents formed a bucket brigade and fought a fire at midnight winch threatened the principal business houses of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Stoker's Heroism. Fire on Renown. Details of His Work. LONDON, June 28
The Portsmouth correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says:—I am able to give the first authentic account of how Stoker Jeffries saved the Renown from disaster on May 26…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →£72,000 Paid by Rail Chiefs Bushfire Damage Forbes
IT is understood that the Railway Commissioners have paid Wirrinya settlers £72,000 compensation, as a result of claims made…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bush Fires. Started by Railway Engine. £72,000 Compensation Paid. Forbes
Following a claim by various settlers near Wirranya, it is stated that £72,000 has now been paid by the Railway Commissioners as compensation for bush fires, which, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Convent. Bathurst
Fire extensively damaged a large outbuilding at St. Joseph's Mount Convent, South Bathurst, at midnight. The blaze was most spectacular. The firemen worked in intense…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Decorated. Police, Gaol, and Fire Officers
Imperial Service Medals were presented to 43 retired officers of the police and prisons departments at a gathering in Government House grounds yesterday aftornoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire on Train Lucerne Destroyed Parkes
Two trucks of lucerne, consigned from Forbes to Hermidale and Cobar, and attached to the Forbes mail trian, caught fire between Daroobalgie and Gidgeera. They…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Dress on Fire Shock Causes Death Nowra
WHILE Mrs. William Apperiey, of Morages, was sitting near the firs reading a paper last night, her dress caught alight. She suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Ice on Helmets After the Fire Bathurst
THE weather was so cold last night that after firemen had extinguished a blaxe at St. Joseph's Mount, the home of the Sisters of Mercy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Costly Bush Fires
It is stated that £72,000 has been paid by the Railway Commissioners in compensation to settlers in the Forbes district on account of bush fires which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kerosene Blaze How Railmen Died
THE deaths of two railwaymen from the effects of burns, caused through an explosion of a tin of kero[?]ene at an open fire near the Redfern tunnel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Kerosene Blaze Two Men Die in Flames
The City Coroner, Mr. H. F. W. Fletcher, returned a verdict of accidental death to-day in the cases of James Pearce and Claude Alexander…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Stick to the Union Fire Chief's Advice Melbourne
When taking leave of members of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade on the eve of his retirement to-day, Mr. Harrie B. Lee, chief officer, urged the men to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Burned to Death. in Enclosed Motor Car. Fire Follows Explosion. Tocumwal
At Strathmerton last night Mr. Raleigh McKechnle, owner of Bajana Estate, near Tocumwal, was burned to death in an enclosed motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Events of the Day Saved the Ship The Fire on the Renown Stoker's Heroism
Fuller particulars of the narrow escape of the Renown from disaster by fire when at sea on 20th May, are given by the Portsmouth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Costly Bush Fires Grenfell
IT is stated that following claims by settlers of Wirranya, £72,000 compensation for bush-fire damage has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire Boolaroo
A garage, motor car and store room containing stores, were totally destroyed by fire at the premises of Mr. Harry Ashton at Speer's Point early this morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stick to Union. Advises Fire Chief Blessing to Everybody Melbourne
"Stick to your union" was the advice given by the retiring Fire Chief Mr. Harrle B. Lee, to the assembled members of the Metropolitan Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canada's Jubilee Trail of Beacon Fires LONDON
A trail of beacon fires from the Atlantic to the Pacific marked to-night the opening of the celebrations of the diamond jubilee of Canada's Confederation…
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