School Licked by Flames £10,000 Damage Fire at Annandale
Six detachments of firemen fought for over an hour early last night to save Annandale Public School…
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Fire that Menaced a School-- --Timber Strike Grows More Serious
MELBOURNE'S WAY.--The southern city is living up to its reputation for liveliness in the timber dispute, as in most others. Yesterday a policeman fired at strikers who stoned free laborers. The picture shows timber being carted by free labor under escort…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Did Fire-bugs Do It? Timber Stacks Alight in Melbourne Mob Violence!
MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Suspected incendiarism and mob violence were grave developments in the Timber Workers' strike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Losses. Primary Producers' Views
BEGA, Wednesday.—At a meeting of the Primary Producers' Union, held at Bega yesterday, it was decided to recommend to the central executive that branches should be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bush Fire Losses Government Assistance for Victorian Dairymen
Dairy farmers in the North-eastern districts of Victoria, who have suffered recovery through bush fires, have been informed by the Minister for Landa…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire at Guildford
Shortly before daybronk yesterday a fire broke out in the nine-roomed weatherboard cottage occupied by Mr. F. Whitlow in Mountford-avenue, Gulldford. The residence was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →In the Bush To-day Fires Help Ants
Most people imagine that bush fires consume a lot of pests, and so tend to compensate the landowner for loss of fencing and other property; perhaps they do help a little, but not…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To Save Children Detonator in Fire Lithgow
To get rid of a detonator, which had misfired in a colliery, Harold London, a resident of Lithgow, throw it into a fire in his back yard. It exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →House Destroyed Midnight Blaze
About 11.25, on Saturday night, Fairfield firebell rang lustily, and residents leaped from their beds to see a huge glare showing out Mark…
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Detectives Breen and Michael, of Clarence-streot police station, are making special Inquiries this afternoon, in connection with the outbreak…
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Firemen were called to an outbreak at the [?] in Murri-street A driving-belt slipped and overheated on the fly-wheel of a dynamo the belt being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barquentine Ajlexa. Destroyed by Fire. at Gilbert Islands
The barquentine Alexn, last of what was once a big fleet of sailing vessels trading between Sydney and the South Sea Islands, was destroyed by fire on Thursday at Butarltari,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fire Bugs? at State Theatre 90 Miles Wire Burnt
THE police arc inquiring into what is considered to hive been a deliberate attempt to burn down the new State Theatre In Market-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Barquentine Alexa Destroyed by Fire Old-time Island Trader
THE Deputy Director of Navigation. Captain Williams, yesterday received advice that the steel barquentine Alexa had been completely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at State Theatre Timely Warning Wires Fuse in Circle
BUT for the timely discovery of a block watchman, the majestic State Shopping Centre, in Market Street, would undoubtedly have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clydesdale Bridge Seriously Damaged by Fire Repairs Will Cost £220
macktown Shire advised Windsor Council at its last meeting that Clydesdale Bridge, over South Creek, on the Blacktown Road, had been seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Concrete— The Conqueror! Cities and Towns Are Built on Cement Sure Check for Bush-Fire Damage Prince of Construction Materials
Probably two of the greatest economic problems which confront the politicians of the day, construction experts and real estate subdivisionists throughout the civilised portions of the earth are those associated with housing and road…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →ARSON? Fire at State Theatre
POLICE believe that the fire which broke out in the State Theatre at midnight on Friday was caused deliberately, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Horses Go Samoa the Sole Survivor
Dying of old age at the R.S.P.C.A. Home at Little Bay is Samoa, the last survivor of the Fire Brigade horses. He is twenty-one, he has no teeth, and the speed that once was his has fled. Left to him now is only an assurance of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suspicious Fire at State Theatre Police Have Clues
Suspicion surrounds the outbreak, of fire at the State Theatre Market-street, yesterday, when £5000 damage was done, and it is…
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