Firemen's Risk Big Melb. Blaze £3000 Damage Melbourne
Damage estimated at between £3000 and £4000 was caused by a fire this afternoon, which started in a building at the year of Tunbridge and Sons'…
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Mighty Blaze Sweeps Waterfront £250,000 Damage Montreal
A message from Hoboken states that the steamer Seneca was burned, probably beyond salvage, and two piers vere destroyed when a spectacular fire swept the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire! The Tragedy of Those Trousers Roast Magistrate
IT has often been said of a man that he has "burned his bridges behind him." Somehow the phrase represents high resolve…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The New Arrow Look Out For It! the Arrow" Will Shortly Be Enlarged and New Features Introduced. These Will Make the Popular Sporting Week-end Paper More Popular Than Ever. Big Fire Spirit Merchants Burnt Out Firemen in Danger Melbourne
A tire which broke out in a cellar of the premises of Harbottle and Co., spirit merchants, St. James' Place, this afternoon, destroyed thousands of pounds' worth of whisky and gun…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Escape at 3 A.M. Fire Destroys Home Cessnock
Awakened at 2.45 a.m., by smoke and heat, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Crawford, of Prince-street, Bellbird, found that their four-romed weatherboard cottage was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires. Southern District. Experimental Farm in Danger. WAGGA
A bush fire arted on the Government experiment farm, three miles from Wagga, yesterday afternoon, and for a time valuable farm buildings were endangered. The fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Red Sunday" Fury of Bush Fires 500 Volunteers Dramatic Scenes at Wodonga Albury
New Year's Day will live in the memory of many settlers in the extreme southern Riverina and north-east of Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bush Fires Seep Wagga Area Experiment Farm Fighters Have Hard Battle Gale Aids Outbreak Wagga
ONE of the most sensations bush fires for many years in this district occurred on Saturday, threatening to wipe out the whole of the Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Raging Bush Fires Fought by Hundreds Woman Sends Appeals for Help by Telephone 40,000 Acres Burned
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Thousands of acres of dairying land have been swept by two bush fires that broke out around Wangar…
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A weatherboard cottage in Regent-street occupied by Mr. A. Kennedy, was totally destroyed by fire last night: The cause of the fire is unknown, the occupants having left the…
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Slight damage to the roof was caused by a fire in Pitt Building, Pitt-street, city, to-day, The report that a fire had broken…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire in Pastrycook's
Considerable damage was caused to the pastrycook shop occupied by Alexamber Browning, at 266 Oxford St. Paddington be an outbreak of are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Destroyed. Fires in Victoria. Melbourne
Reports from Wangaratta state that farmers had an anxious time on Saturday owing to outbreaks of bush fires, which were fanned by strong winds. An extensive area of grass lands…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Last Year's Fires Less Than in 1926
The past year showed a decrease in the number of fires in the Sydney and country districts. According to a report by Mr. T. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in King-street
At about a quarter past 8 o'clock yesterday morning the headquarters fire station received a call to King-street, where a fire had broken out in Premises occupied by Marie…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Engine Overturns. Cessnock
While the Cessnock fire brigade was proceeding to a fire on Saturday evening the fire engine overturned at the intersection of Hall and Vincent streets, as the result of one of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Grenfell. Grenfell
The residence of Samuel Jeffreys, road contractor, on the Cowra-rond, was destroyed by fire on Friday night. The contents of the house. in addition to several outbuildings and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Huge Blaze in Vic. Spirit Stores Utter Destruction Fine Save From Spread Melbourne
The burning of liquor stores in St. James Place, City, yesterday provided one of the most spectacular sights seen for many years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in a Spirit Store. Melbourne
On Saturday afternoon a tire occurred in the basement of St. James Building, an old four-storeyed brick building at the corner of Little Collins-street and St. James-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Altar on Fire. Collapse of Candlestick. Tamworth
While the altar at St. Nicholas' Roman Catholic Church was being prepared for benediction and exposition immediately after the second mass to-day, a heavy branched…
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