£60,000 Damage fey Fire
BRISBANE, Friday.--Motor car chassis, body building material, and completed cars were burned in a fire which, at 11 o'clock to-night, destroyed…
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£40,000 Damage. Fire in Brisbane. Motor Cars Destroyed. Brisbane
A spectacular fire just before midnight tonight destroyed the greater part of the prem[?] of peels, Limited, South Brisbane, [?] body builders and agents for Nash cars,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →£50,000 Fire Motor Works Gutted Eighty Cars Destroyed Paint Feeds Flames Brisbane
Damage estimated at between £40,000 and £50,000 was caused to the motor works of Peel's Ltd., in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jordan and Mair Snatch Game out of the Fire against Gordon Glebe Have an Uphill Tussle Keen Finish Expected Next Saturday Many Poor Scores in Grade Cricket
Gordon gave Glebe barrackers a fright yesterday afternoon at Jubilee Oval. At 4 o'clock adjournment Glebe had lost six good wickets for the paltry total of 85. But so defiantly did Jordon and Mair bat that they remained at the wickets till the drawing of stumps and added 82 runs—a…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Oil Fire. Big Waterfront Blaze. Firemen's Efforts Futile. Auckland
A large brick store on the waterfront, owned by Winstone, Limited, full of case benzine and other oils, caught fire early this afternoon…
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A big fire at Peel. Ltd.'s motor works South Brisbane caused damage estimated at 150,000. About 80 motor cars were destroyed…
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THE wood-turning factory of Cerutt[?] and Spillstead. a street, Alexandria, was destroyed early yesterday morning. The damag[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heatre Panic Fire Ball" Thrown Mascot Outrage
A PANIC was caused at the Marino Picture Theatre, Gardiner's-road Matcot, on Saturday night, when a piece at bagging which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Fire. Heavy Damage to Oil Store
Cable advice received from our New Zealand correspondent informs of the breaking out of a fire in Winstone's Oil Store, Auckland, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pyrmont Fire. Supposed Incendiarism. Outbreak in Timber Yard
An outbreak of fire, the circumstances of which have caused the police to suspect incendiarism, occurted early yesterday morning in the timber yard of C. E. Mulhearn and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dastardly Act. at Picture Show. Effort to Cause Fire or Panic
Great oxcitement prevailed in the Marina Picture Theatre, Gardenors-road, Mascot, on Saturday night, when some bngging saturated with petrol was thrown among the audience…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£50,000 FIRE N.Z. Petrol Store Foolhardy Crowd Auckland
PETROL and motor oils valued at £50,000 were destroyed yesterday, when the store of Winstone. Limited, Freeman's Bay, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Living Torch Fireman's Awful Ordeal Deenched in Blazing Oil Dramatic Scenes at Big Auckland Fire Auckland
Three firemen engaged at a fire in a bulk benzine store on the waterfront yesterday afternoon were unable to get clear when several tins of spirit and drums of oil exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fireman Dead Burned in Petrol Blaze Auckland
George Beath, the fire brigade engineer, who was badly burned by blazing petrol, in the sensational fire, in the oil store of Winstone, Ltd., died…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Auckland Fire. Heavy Loss Sustained
Further information from our New Zealand correspondent states that over sixty thousand pounds is mentioned as the loss incurred as the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Clangs"gone; "Wails" Here Hooters instead of Bells on Fire Engines
Wails echoed through Castlereagh Street, City, last night. Fire Headquarters received an automatic call to the Hotel Australia, and for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£20,000 Blaze in Apple Factory Blow to Industry Hobart
THE fruit industry in Southern Tasmania received a set-back last night, when the large evaporating factories at Harvey were totally…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£600,000 Fire in Karachi
Calcutta, Tuesday ("Sun" Special)--A disastrous fire occured at Karachi, stacks of cotton and wheal valued at £600,000 being destroyed. The firefighters Were greatly hampered by a shortage of water. All available troops and police and hundreds of civiliens were called out to cope with the blaze…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter's Hill Fire Police Suspicions
Hunter's Hill police view an outbreak of fire at the Boronia Park sanitary depot yesterday In a very suspicious light…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Fire. Tasmanian Factory. DAMAGE £20,000. HOBART
A disastrous fire occurred at Cygnet, in the Huon district, to-day, when Mr. R. Harvey's evaporator pie apple plant, and fruit pulping factories were destroyed. The loss is…
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