Trapped in Fire Nine Burnt to Death in New Hebrides
Nine people were burnt to death when a fire destroyed the premises of the Compton Francais des Nouvelles -Hebrides on Tuesday night, according…
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Races Three Hours Late Men Fought Big Fire Melbourne
Traratgon races were delayed three hours to-day, while the racegoers were roshed to Sale to attack a disastrous tire which destroyed hundreds…
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An interesting and very important question has been raised at Yass as to whether a[?] rural employee, injured while engaged fighting a bush fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Creeping Flames Cottages in Danger Collaroy Bush Fire
Red tongues of flame licking trees, and racing through thick undergrowth -- twelve acres of blazing scrub--a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Badly Burnt. in Bush Fire. Forced to Climb Tree. Perth
While trying to extinguish a fire on a neighbour's proporty at Wanneroo, near Perth. Ernest Johnson (2[?]) was trapped by the flames Hee climbed a tree, but the flames pursued…
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A fire broke out in the [?]tenanted house. the property of Mr Richard [?]alor in Station Strect, S[?] Marys about 7.30 p.m. on Saturday. It began…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Fire Four Shots Gaol for Using Car Adelaide
Four shots were fires by Detective Strangway about 12,30 a.m. to-day at young man, who wan seen to leave the doorway of a shop in North…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion and Fire Nine Deaths and 45 Casualties in New Hebrides
A frightful disaster is reported from Vila, the chief port of the New Hebrides, as the result of a fire followed by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stunts Will Make Sydney's Hair Stand on End Leap From Aeroplane Among the Clouds at Bondi Dash Through Fire
A parachute descent from thousands of feet in the sky -- a dare-devil ride through space, a leap through a fiery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Beating Collaroy Bush Fire
Not a big city building this time. Firemen quelling a bush fire near Collaroy yesterday, when three houses were in danger…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Must Eat Amid Roaring Fires Bush Pantry Women to the Rescue Melbourne
No more shall Victoria's Volunteer bush fire fighters go unfed, A women's auxiliary, to work in conjunction with the city men who respond…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heroic Rescue of 15 People in Bondi Undertow:( See Page 2 ) DENOUNCED! Bishop Barnes Adds More Fuel to Fires of Anglicanism Secrets of Lambeth Palace London
Bishop Barnes has broken definitely with the majority of his colleagu[?]of the bench of Biskops by issuing a statement denouncing the latest revision of the Prayer Book,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Claims. Albury
It is stated that some landowners on the Victorian side of the Murray River, whose properties were devastated by the recent bush fires, have decided to claim damages against…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Shop Destroyed North Sydney Blaze
AT 12 40 a.m to-day a are was discovered in a block at buildings in filler-street, North Sydney, occupied by William T. Bale, garage…
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Cabra Vale Council has decided to proceed with the erection of a fire station to house the newly- formed Cabramatta and Canley Vale Fire Brigade…
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Two shops and a motor garage adjoining the Union Theatre in Ridge Street, North Sydney, were bady damaged by fire shortly after midnight…
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At 11.55 p.m. on Saturday the Bankatown Fire Brigade received a call to Picnic Pointroad, East Hills, where a five-roonmed weatherboard cottage, tenanted by Arthur Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire From Sticks Fag- Lighters Beaten Newport (Rhode Island), Sun
A new world's record for starting a fire by rubbing two dry sticks together has been set by a Boy Scout, William Lussi…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Quagmire England Beats Wales Fire Brigade Used London
In heavy rain, and on a waterlogged ground, England beat Wales at Swansea yesterday in the Rugby Union international fixture by 10 points to 8…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney's Fire Peril Steel Girders a Menace Expert's Warning Danger Grows London
SYDNEY'S new concrete and steel buildings, daily piercing the skyline in fresh places, are a bigger menace to life than the older types…
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