Missed Fire Tramps' Trick on Train WAGGA
As a locomotive running between Wagga and Junee was approaching an incline the engine failed to grip the rails…
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"Hell Fire" Repudiation Meeting Gosling Warns Questions in Parliament
In the Legislative Assembly today, Mr. Reid (Nat.) asked the Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling), referring to disorderly conduct at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Point of Bayonet at Fire How Sailors Held Crowd N.Z. Thrills Auckland
STANDING with fixed bayonet, a number of sailors from the warship in New Zealand waters kept the…
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BELIEVED to be the oldest fire-fighter in England, Superintendent J. B. Brooke, aged 77, has attended over 400 fires during his 54 years' local service at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Upset Chinese
TAMWORTH, Tuesday.--Over 30 Chinese rushed wildly about when, at 2 o'clock this afternoon, the building occupied by them as a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Candle Causes £100,000 Fire
A votive candle upset by a child caused a fire which destroyed the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Joseph's, Ottawa (Canada), on December 27…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy Fire Losses. Auckland
The damage caused by last night's fire is estimated at over £100,000. The insurances total £87,000. Through the destruction of the factory of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire in Bunkers. Uffington Court Delayed
A fire in the bunkers of the Uffington Court probably caused by spontaneous combustion, damaged about 20 tons of coal and delayed the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Panoramic View of Napier, Showing the Damage Done by the Earthquake and Fires
These pictures convey to the mind almost at a glance the terrible nature of the devastation that laid both Napier and Hastings in ruins. It is almost impossible for people living far from the earthquake zone to realise the awfulness of such a catastrophe. It is unlike all other…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Heroine of the Boer War Braved Rifle Fire for Water
A WOMAN'S gallant act during the Boer War is recalled by the death, in her 70th year, of Mrs, Jane Montgomery Campbell, wife of Captain A. Montgomery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quick-fire War Debts in Commons Snowden What Britain Pays U.S. LONDON
A lively quarter of an hour or cross-firing was spent in the House of Commons this afternoon on the question of Australia's war debt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfires Delayed Oronsay
FREMANTLE, Tuesday.--A heavy haze over the sea caused by the bushfires delayed the arrival this morning of the Orient liner Oronsay from…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Melbourne Firemen Fight Thirty Fires
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- More than 30 grass and house fires were reported today in the metropolitan area. Firemen could not prevent the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lorry on Fire
A motor lorry, driven by George Richad Bailey, of Baulkham Hills, back-fired and caught alight in Church-street, Parramatta, on Tuesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Store. Dorrigo
Lang Bros, general store was destroyed by fire last night. The outbreak, which occurred in the rear portion of the premises, was discovered by a passer-by. He gave the alarm,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →House Destroyed by Fire. Tamworth
A wooden residential in the Chinese quarter of Tamworth was destroyed by fire yesterday. The building was owned by Mrs. C. Bannon. The damage is estimated at £400…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →German Steamer on Fire. London, Feb. l8
A message from Riga states that the petrol cargo of the German steamer Leander exploded, and the vessel was quickly enveloped in flames. The crew of l8 took to the boats,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Suspicious Fire at Melb. Town Hall Melbourne
A fire was discovered to-day in the shaft of the clock tower of the Melbourne Town Hall. No serious damage was done, but there was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Unlocked Door Temptation to Steal Coroner and Fire
The district coroner, Mr. H. Richardson. Clark,. on Tuesday emphasised the necessity for exercising care in the protection of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disastrous Fire. Timberyards Destroyed. Damage Estimated at £25,000. BRISBANE
Many millions of feet of timber were destroyed by a disastrous fire which almost completely demolished the timber yards of Rosenfeld and Co., at New Farm to-day. The…
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