Fire False Alarms Not Due to Sprinklers
DURING the heat wave last Saturday the Fire Brigade received an unusual number of calls, many of which proved to be false alarms. These, it is…
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Oil Tanker Fire Praise for Captain Newcastle
CAPTAIN COLLIE of the oil tanker British Honor which was badly damaged by fire in Newcastle Harbor on Monday has received from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire on Steamer Ningchow in Trouble Adelaide
Bound from Melbourne to Fremantle, the Blue Funnel steamer Ningchow, when off Cape Naturalists today, sent a wireless message to the…
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THE steamer Ninchow, on which a fire occurred off Cape Naturalist in the Australian Right, is considered to-day to be out of danger. The fire in…
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PERTH, Wednesday. -- With her No. 3 bunker ablaze off Cape Naturaliste, in the Great Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ship on Fire. Freighter Ningchow. Puts Into Bunbury. Perth
The steamer Ningchow (9029 tons) a Blue Funnel freighter, put into Bunbury this afternoon with a bad fire in a reserve bunker amidships. The Bunbury fire brigade, with a…
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Portion of the staging on the creeper crane at the Dawes Point end of the North Shore Bridge caught fire last night…
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Before it decides whether it will have Sutherland Shire brought under the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act, the local Shire Council will ascertain from…
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On Saturday last the flooring of an empty house in Canley-rd., Fairfield, was discovered to be on fire. The local fire engine, manned by…
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It is expected that Major Bros.' paint works, at Concord, which were damaged by fire on Saturday, will be in full operation again within the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Blaze on the Bridge Firemen's Perilous Climb to Burning Staging
A wooden stage erected under the creeper crane on the north side of the harbor bridge caught fire last night and blazed fiercely…
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A correspondent wishes to know if fire-engines. Proceeding to a fire. are not obliged to adhere to the regulations by going round street traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Liverpool. Lorry Catches Fire
On Friday night, Messrs, Ashcroft's motor lorry, caught fire while standing in the garage at the rear of the Liverpool butchery. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire at Forbes. Preceded by Explosion. Forbes
Following a terrific explosion, a mysterious fire broke out in an old cellar at the corner of Rankin and Templar streets, and partly destroyed the premises occupied by Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Spectacular Fire. On Harbour Bridge. Firemen's Perilous Climb
Two wooden stagings on the extremity of the northern section of the Harbour Bridge caught fire and burnt fiercely, providing a brilliant spectacle, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire on Ningchow. Fighters Work All Night. BUNBURY
Tho fire on the Blue Funnel freighter Nlngchow, which last night threatened to assume alarming proportions, was this morning extinguished, so far as the reserve bunker in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ten Perish by Fire. Outbreak in Mission School. WINNIPEG, Feb. 26
The Sister Superior and nine children perished in a fire which destroyed an isolated Indian girls' school at Manitoba. Sister Jeanne leaped from a window and broke her…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Freighter Ningchow. Fresh Outbreak of Fire. PERTH
A further fire broke out early last evening in No. 3 hold of the Blue Funnel steamer Ningchow, which berthed at Bunbury on Wednesday, with a serious fire in the reserve coal…
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The military correspondent of the London "Dairy Telegraph" states that the long-sought ideal of an efficient self [?] rifle has been realised, and is…
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SITTING by the fireside, One cold Winter's night, I saw some little lire elves, And they piave me such a fright…
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