Fires in City Damage £3000
It is estimated that damage amounting to £3000 was done early to-day by fire at the rooms of the Tobias Fur Company, Fenchurch Buildings,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires & bushfires, 1928
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Fire in Fur Store. Stock Damaged
A fire which was believed to have been smouldering for several hours before it was detected, caused extensive damage to a valuable stock of furs at the warehouse of the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Timely Discovery. Fire in Wembley House
The timely discovery of a fire in a room on the fourth floor of Wembley House, Railway-square, last night prevented serious damage. A railway official noticed flames issuing from…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Fire Damp at Redbank Cause of the Disaster Brisbane
George Marshall, manager of the Blackhealth Colliery, at the resumed inquiry into the Redbank Colliery explosion, at Ipswich to-day, expressed the opinion that the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Black Smoke Fire in Tyre Works Fed by Rubber Solution Melbourne
Dense clouds of black smoke, which rose hundreds of feet in the air, atrtracted a big crowd in Russell-street this afternoon, when a fire broke out…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Threw Baby Into Fire
Alexa Carl Erickson was charged by his wife with having killed one of their babies twelve years ago by throwing the child into the furnace of their Aberdeen,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in City Fur Company's Loss
When fire caused damage estimated at £3000 early yesterday morning at the premises of the Tobias Fur Company. Fenchurch Buildings, Pitt-street, City, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Fiend Damascus Is Ravaged Troops Called Out London
The best part of Damascus, the oldest city in the world, has been destroyed by fire, and the damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Didn't Burn His Fingers When Porter Played with New Fire Notched Kogarah by a Neck
BILL PORTER answered the burning question, "What will win the Moorefield Kogarah Stakes?" by backing New Fire. HE secured 10 1 to about the chesnut and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Where There's Smoke There's Fire"—Tobacconist Marks on the Mat Running of Lord Romeo Puts Owner, Chris O'Rourke, and Rider on the Carpet an Inquiry That Was Anticipated
AT 11 o'clock in the morning, Tobacconist A. A. Marks, together with Chris. O'Rourke, leading trainer, and Apprentice J. Dennett, will face the three stipendiary stewards of the Australian Jockey Club. Their job will be to explain why Lord Romeo ran only second in the Kogarah Stakes at Moorefield yesterday. To those who took more than a cursory glance at the running of the race, it was evident that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Destroys £6000 YACHT Miramar Sinks at Her Moorings Big Harbor Blaze
The motor yacht Miramar, flagship of the Royal Sydney Motor Yacht Club, owned by Mr. Stuart Doyle, caught fire at her moorings…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Newtown
A fire which broke out in Nichols Bros.' smallgoods shop. King-st., Newtown, early to-day, was extinguished by the Newtown Brigade after stock and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Yacht Destroyed by Fire
Mr. Stewart F. Doyle's Miramar, which was burnt and sank in Rose Bay on Saturday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire at Orange. Orange
A serious fire occurred at 1 o'clock this morning in the stationery and news agency business of Norman Gannon[?] in the heart of the business centre of Summer-street. Great…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Arresting a Man. Constable Fires Shot. Wounds a Comrade. Melbourne
While he was drawing his automatic pistol to fire over the head of a roan who was escaping from arrest on Saturday, Senior Constable Jacobs, of North Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire on Harbour. Miramar Sinks after Burning. £5000 Motor Yacht
The luxurious motor yacht, M[?]ramar, owned by Mr. F. Stuart Doyl[?], of Buckhurst, Double Bay, was destroyed by fire shortly after 6 p.m, on Saturday, while lying at her moorings [?]n…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Great Fire at Damascus Many Homes Gone Historic Treasures Also London
WHAT with the lavages of lla[?] and gun[?] on the past the an night any of Damascus has been of most [?] off the may…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£12,000 Damage Big Qland Blaze Brisbane
A WHOLE row of building in Howard-street. Nambour, won destroyed by a fire which broke out at 1. 15 a.m. to-day. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Shop Destroyed. Fire at Newtown
A smallgoods [?] at the corner of King and Little Queen streets, Newtown, was destroyed by fire shortly before 3 o'clock yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Child's Clothes Catch Fire. Moree
On Saturday Emmet Donovan, aged two years and nine months, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donovan, of Gurley, met with a very painful accident through being severely burnt…
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