Fire in Next Room Causes Acute Mania Then Death Widow Awarded £800
Death, according to a decision of, the Workers' Compensation Court today, may result not only from the effects of…
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Burned in Petrol Fire
When petrol ignited in the kitchen of her home in Miller Street. Northbridge, yesterday. Mrs. Maria Alice Appel, was severely burned on the left…
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A fire last night destroyed Mr. J. T. Cooper's large residence on the Casino-road. The insurances total only £680. The origin of the fire is unknown, as the occupants were away…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Causes Fatal Insanity Widow Compensated
Exhaustion and acute milnil[?], following endeavors to extinguish a fire at the Goodyear Tyre Works, caused the death of an employee, John Bed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wragge Institute Destroyed by Fire Auckland
A FIRE at Birkenhead destroyed the Wragge Institute with the whole of the late Mr. Clement Wragge's meteorological instruments, and polynesian…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trains Delayed. Fire in Signal Box. Electric Signals Affected
Trains on the Iilawarra line were subjected to serious delays last night as a result of a fire which occurred at the Meeks road railway signal-box, Sydenham Electric signals…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Film Fire Fumes Firemen Overcome Wellington (N.z.)
Fumes overcame six firemen who endeavored to extinguish a blaze in the printing room of the Famous Lasky Film Service…
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It has been reported that recently, a fire occurred at the rear of premises occupied by Mr. Archibald Gordon Spencer, of Lumley-road, Granville, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HAMPERED £30,000 Damage in Melbourne Blaze Factory Cutted Fire Chief Hurt Melbourne
THE Fire Chief, Mr Wilkins, was injured, several firemen were badly bruised, and a factory was gutled late last night, chefly because of…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners informed the Glebe Council last night in response to a request that the Fire Board wash down the exterior…
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A fire which broke out in Gow's Chair Factory, at 31 John-street, Leichhardt, yesterday afternoon, caused some damage to a spraying plant and chairs in the finishing room before…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Factory Gutted. Melbourne Fire. Melbourne
The large biscuit factory of A. P. Brockhoff, at North Melbourne, was completely gutted by fire to-night. The fire was first noticed at about 11.15 p.m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Clothes Burnt off Petrol Caught Fire
Fire divested Doris Lenez of her clothing at her home in Platform-street, Lidcombe, on Tuesday night. Miss Lenez, who is twenty-one years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AWARDED £800 Widow's Compensation Claim Goodyear's Fire
Before the Workmen's Compensation Commission on Wednesday, Gertrude Alice Cronan, of Stewart-street, Parramatta, widow, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It Was a Fire Insurance Coy. to Pay
Whether an explosion a fire was responsible for damage [?]to the car palming works of dospen [?] at Junee, was decided in the No. 2…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cunnamulla Fire. Shops, Residence, and Theatre Destroyed. BRISBANE
A message from Cunnamulla says that a fire broke out about 9.30 this morning in a block of buildings owned and partly occupied by Councillor Kerr, causing the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mutiny on Jervis Bay Captain's S.O.S. "Threat to Set Ship on Fire Warship to Scene London
MUTINY. Threatening ship afire. Send immediate assistance." This is the wireless message picked up by the H.M.S. Enterprise from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MUTINY. Aboard the Steamer Jervis Bay. on the High Seas. "Threatening to Fire the Ship." Captain Calls for Help. Navy Sending Armed Marines
There has been a sensational development of the trouble reported yesterday from the Commonwealth liner Jervis Bay, which left Fremantle on Saturday for Colombo. In a message picked up at Colombo, the master of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Housewives' Donnybrook: Vases, Bottles, Umbrellas Threat of Fire Hose Quietened Them Infuriated Women Captured Platform and Hurled Glasses at the Opposition Police Needed to Referee
Skirts flew: legs flew; water bottles and flower vases flew; umbrellas were stamped; an official of the Education Department asked that the meeting be adjourned. A policeman looked in, rubbed his eyes in bewilderment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Larkin Says Jervis Bay O.k.—but Is It? S.o.s. to Warship "Send Immediate Aid— Threatening Fire" Then a Reassurance Reign of Terror on High Seas Marines to the Rescue
"THE latest news of the Jervis Bay comes from the chairman of the Commonwealth Shipping Line, Mr. H. Larkin, who says: "Have received a message direct from Captain…
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