Country News Collapsed Into Fire Aged Widow's Dreadful Death
WELLINGTON (N.S.W.), Monday.--Mrs. Myra Weber (67), a widow, was found at her home at Stuart Town, lying partly in the…
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Eye Torn Out Fire Explodes Queer Mishap in Bush Flying Coals
HAROLD THOMAS, 22, swagman, was the victim of a strange accident near Worris Creek Racecourse yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tense Fight. Against Fire on Liner. the City of Honolulu. Auckland
Details of the desperate fight against the fire on the City of Honolulu at Honolulu on May 25 were brought to Auckland by the R.M.M.S. Aorangi…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →One Eye Torn Out Camp Fire Explodes Bush Log Werris Creek
Life seems like one. hard knock after another to a young man whose own camp fire caused a hollow log to explode and tear his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Covered Audacious Robbery
SMASHING the window of a shop at Market-st., City, last night, with a brick, an audacious thief got away with a pair of diamond drop ear rings valued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Heat West Melbourne Fire Stanchions Buckled Melbourne
Serious damage was done by a fire which occurred ut 7 o'clock this morning in the basement of a three-storey factory owned by Sir William…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Man in Bath Blaze in Bathroom Wollongong
A CHIP-HEATER set fire to a stack of wood in the bathroom of the residence of Mr. Wilton, Smith Street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Punchbowl
A fire which broke out in the brick residence occupied by Mr. Joseph Lloyd at 144 Highclere-road, Punchbowl, yesterday afternoon, caused damage amounting to £450. One…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Rats Blamed for Fire
The fire which partly destroyed the Abbotsford Baths on May 25 was caused by rats chewing matches, according to Sergeant Brayne to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mysterious Fire In Early Morning
Mr. H. Richardson Clark (District Coroner) held In enquiry it Ryde last week into the circumstances under which a fire occurred at Mrs. Butler's shop at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Danish Gunboat Fires on British Trawler London. Wednesday. (British Official Wireless.)
A question was asked in the House of Commons whether the Foreign Office had received a report of the firing of four live shells by a Danish gunboat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Didn't Half Laugh," Said Fire Fiend LONDON
How a boy aged 10 set lire to a farmhouse, and then, because the firemen had nothing more to do, fired a rick, was told in the Worcester…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Follows Explosion Woy Woy Shop-owner Blown Into Street
So terrific was the explosion of a big soda fountain gas-cylinder in [?] Woy Woy last night, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Fire on Steamer. 25,000 Barrels of Oil Aboard. Vessel Sunk to Prevent Explosion
Details of a desperate fight against fire on the steamer City of Honolulu, 10,680 tons, at Honolulu on May 25, were brought to New Zealand by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NO. 2 Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers and juries.) Fire From Locomotive Spark. Longhurst and another v Railway Commissioners
The plaintiffs in this action, Daniel Thomas Longhurst and Elaine Longhurst, sued the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales to recover £1750 compensation for loss…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire at Paddington
Considerable damage was caused by a fire which broke out early to-day in a fish shop occupied by the [?] Estathivu, Oxford-st, Paddington. Firemen from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Lorry on Fire
Slight damage was caused by afire which broke out in the engine of a motor lorry, owned by the Colonial Meat Co., on the Western[?] Toongabbie,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Liverpool-street
A fire broke out in one of the storerooms of Mark Foy's, Ltd., in Liverpool-street, yesterday morning. Headquarters Fire Brigade extinguished the outbreak before it spread to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Clothing Damaged. Fire at Canterbury
Clothing material valued at £1500 was (destroyed in a fire at a combined factory and dwelling occupied by Francis John Raynor, in Canterbury-road, Canterbury,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →General Accident Fire and Life
Net Income of the General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd., a British company, with branchas in Australia, was £8,666,158 for 1929, compared with £8,322,850…
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