Railway Notes Bush Fires Freight on Seed Wheat
The bush-fire season is with us once more, and, as usual, sparks from railway engines are being blamed for a great many of the outbreaks. That…
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Bush Fire Danger Advice for Motorists Warning
Motoring touring the country, particularly those intending to camp, are advised by the National roads and Motorists' Association to take every…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Bush Fires. Eight Horses Burned to Death. Losses in Riverina
About 250 acres of grass was burns in a fire at Wagga on Saturday afternoon. For a time, it threatened the desctruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Events of the Day Miles of Flames Victorian Bush Fires Farmers' Heavy Losses
Thousands of acres of dairying land in Victoria has been swept by two bush fires that broke out around Wangaratta on Saturday last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Notes. the Departmental Point of View. Bush Fire Precautions
The bush fire season is with us once more, and, as usual, sparks from railway engines are being blamed for a great many of the outbreaks. That…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Blaze at Peakhurst
A wood-iron cottage in Lorraine street, Peakhurst, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. The building was completely, burnt out, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Fire Race to Station Blaze in Van Mailbags Damaged Quirindi
The Brisbane mail from Sydney caught fire between Braefield and Quirindi about 10.30 last night. The driver noticed flames and smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Car Burnt Engine Back-fires
Mr. Brennan, of "Sunnyside," Dural, had the misfortune to lose his motor car during Christmas week, as the result of fire. He was driving from the city when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Blaze of Light at the Motor Show
The running of a motor show or any other show, is not the cheapest thing upon which one could engage. If the ordinary householder going home…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Car on Fire
In Regent-street, Redfern, about 11.30 o'clock yesterday morning, a motor car suddenly burst into flames. The flames seemed to come from under the engine, and soon the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Burnt Alive Motor Horror Blaze After Smash London
A HORRIBLE accident occurred at Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, today, when a motor lorry skidded through a hedge and down a bank…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires in Mountains Caused by Lightning Katoomba
A flash of lightning during a storm this afternoon is believed to be responsible for the total destruction of a cottage known as "Leura Del," in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Creat Film "The Fire Brigade"
"THE Fire Brigade," a most spectacular and realistic picture of the destroying element, and its human victims and conquerors, will be shown at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →House Destroyed Early Morning Fire
A house in Dalley-street, Granville, owned and occupied by Margaret Johnson, was totally destroyed by fire in the early hours of Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →House Destroyed by Fire. Junee
Yesterday a fire started at the residence of D. Hillam, at Ivor, where little water was available, and it quickly demolished the building despite the efforts of volunteers. The…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at Taree. Business Premises Destroyed
Within two days of the close of 1927 Taree's first fire for the year occurred, when Mr. Martin McLaughlin's drapery store was gutted and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Altar on Fire. Excitement at Tamworth
While the altar at St. Nicholas' Roman Catholic Church, Tamworth, was being prepared last Sunday after the second innes, a heavy branched…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire on Train Mail Bags Are Burned Quirindi
The mail van of the Sydney-Brisbane express caught alight between Grayfield and Quirindi last night, and ten bags of Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brave Officers Sank with Steamer CLAN McWILLIAM FIRE
The destruction by fire of the steamer Clan McWilliam, at Vavau, on Christmas Eve (as reported in the last issue of the "Farmer and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mantle of Fire Man's Terrible Agony Danger of Petrol
The ignition of a quantity of petrol vapor (caused frightful injuries to N. Spellson, motor garage proprietor, at Bogan Gate on New Year's night…
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