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It sometimes happens, particularly during the hot weather, that the back-firing of the engine of a motor cycle or a motor causes the carburettor to catch fire. Very…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Fear of fires prompted R. A. White, of Langtry-avenue, to draw Auburn Council's attention on Monday to the vacant allotment adjoining his property…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mrs. Blanche Hibbard, of Lambeth-street, East Hills, was fatally burnt yesterday, when her clothes caught alight as she was boiling her washing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A RAILWAY engine is alleged to have been responsible for six separate outbreaks of fire near Junee yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A cottage in Neil-street was destroyed by fire while the tenant, Mr. Jack Kelly, and family, were at a picture show. The contents were insured for £300. but the cottage, owned…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mrs. Blanche Hibbard. 04, was severely burnt about the body when her clothes caught alight at her residence in Lambeth Street. East Hills,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firemen were faced with a difficult task early this morning in subduing a fire which was discovered in premises at 281 George-street, city, occupied by a firm trading as the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A fire this morning destroyed the guest home at Rose Park kept by Miss Grace Reese. Six boarders lost almost all their possessions. In cluding £60 in notes, which one of them had…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Reports from various centres whore fires are burning, indicate that there is little likelihood of further extensive damage to private property…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Tim mountain township of Belgrave for a week has been menaced by bush- fires. Its bud luck fulminated this evening when a fire broke out in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire which lighted the district for miles around broke out late last night in M'Kenzie's timber yards, Rhodes. A big quantity of sawdust was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Believed to have been caused by the backfire of an engine, a fire broke out in the promises of the electric powerhouse at Bordertown this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The South Electric Power Company's power house at Bordertown was destroyed by fire this morning. The damage, estimated at £4000, is partially covered by insurance. A…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SO many fires have occurred in the township of Belgrave, a holiday resort in the Ferntres Gully hills, that the police,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mysterious telephone messages, threatening to burn down her property and to take her life, are said to have been received by Miss Cissie Welsh,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfires are still burning in the Wilton and Appin districts, and thousands of acres have been burned out by the raging fires which have been burning intermittently for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"The proposal for extending telephone hours at part-time exchanges in bush fire danger areas is receiving Sympathetic consideration at the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Even if he is not an actual loser as a result of recant bush fires, any farmer who has read the reports of the destruction that the "rod peril"…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Smoke and heat from the raging bush fires did not contribute to the enjoyment of the opening of the Hong Hong Picnic Races last week, By…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Every farm and station owner should make provision for fighting those mysterious summer fires which may at any time destroy the result of a whole…
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