Mysterious Fire in Office Police Inquiring About Outbreak
Police yesterday interviewed a man concerning a fire in an office in the Anglo-American Chambers in Oxford- Street, city, at 1 a.m…
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Street Threatened Wooden Houses Ablaze Melbourne Fire Melbourne
A street of closely packed wooden houses was threatened by a fierce fire that broke out at 2.15 this afternoon in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →How Airmen Died When 'Plane Caught Fire at Essendon Melboerne
An inquiry was hold by the Coroner to - day regarding the deaths of Brian Rhodes, 21, and Alfred Heaton, 18, who were fatally burnt when their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Sweeps Station Barrallier Outbreak on 20-miles Front Hopeless Fight
Lives and property are threatened by the huge fire which is sweeping through the Barrallier district on a 20-miles front…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion and Fire at Earl Wood--test Match Incidents--knifed in the Street
BRINK of the precipice at Echo Point, where Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →BUSHFIRE. Sweeps Wollondilly Valley. Homesteads in Danger. Barallier
Bushfires are sweeping over a 15-mile frontage between the Wollondilly and Abercrombie Rivers. The outbreak began last week, and since…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bush Fires in Victoria Township Threatened MELBOURNE,Thursday
A fierce bush fire is raging in the Beigrave district. At one time Belgrave township was threatened but a change of wind…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Risk Need for Caution
THE recent [?] of the shire council to appear through the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rain Saves Town Bush Fires in Vic. Melbourne
UNTIL early to-day, when the weather changed and heavy rain tell, the [?] township of Belgrave was threatened with destruction by an extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Talons of Fire Blaze in Wollondilly Vaixey a Lost World "Sun" 'Plane Over Raging Inferno
Talons of fire, groping down the valley and scraping across the rugged hills, tearing off the bronze green forest in swathes as they clawed-- Rolling, blue-grey ranges of smoke that hunched…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Homes in Danger Bundanoon Blaze Bundanoon
Bush fires are rasing within two miles of the township and volunteers have gone to beat back the flames. Residents on the outskirts are in danger. A…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Rockdale
Damage estimated at £400 was called by a fire which gutted a building in Bryant Street, Rockdale, shortly be. fore midnight last Friday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Tout Fire-Fighting
The president of the Grazlers' Association, Mr. F. H. Tout, entered the ranks of the fire-fighters on Wednesday when a fire broke out on his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lightning Makes River of Fire
GRAFTON, Thursday.--Lightning played pranks during a storm at Palmer's Channel, on the Lower Clarence…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →If the Engine Catches Fire
A [?] It is not a very frequent occurrence in every-day motoring. one should not forget that a motor car engine is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Fire at Fugitive Man for Trial
A story of a policeman being struck on the head with a bottle how another constable came to his aid, chased a fugitive, and fired…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Timber Mill. Damaged by Fire. GRAFTON
Messrs. Pike and Co.'s sawmill at Dirty Creek, near Corindi, was seriously damaged by fire early this morning. The outbreak was discovered by Mrs. Wall, who lives near…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Northern Sawmills. Destroyed by Fire. Coff's Harbour
The Northorn Sawmills at Dundee were destroyed by fire last night. It is not known yet how the fire originated. The manager proceeded to Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Explosion and Fire Bootshop Proprietor Charged with Arson
A terrific explosion, followed by a fire, wrecked Frank Edward Massey's bootshop and adjoining premises at Earlwood (Sydney) early on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Epping Fire Homes in Peril Residents Turn Out
WHEN a bush fire broke out [?] were in danger and [?] turned out in force to-night…
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