Motor Launch on Fire
A launch, afire and drifting on George's River last Sunday night, caused excitement on the banks of the river. Later, after police had been sent for, a…
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Fire!
ODD, is it not, This marriage jape! In building a love-nest I forgot,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fires in Grafton District. Grafton
While Mr. G. Turner and his family were attending a dance at the beach reserve their home at Woolgoolga Creek, with its contents, was destroyed by fire. It is understood that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Home Destroyed by Fire. Mungindi
At 2.30 a.m. to-day the home of Mr. Oak Lewis was destroyed by fire. Nothing was saved. The house and its contents were insured. Fortunately no wind was blowing at…
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For 38 years he fought fires in the city. He played his part in the famous Moore Street outbreak in which several men were entombed and badly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Elephant Brigade for Fire Calcutta
Eight elephants pulled a fire engine in Cooch Behar. A big group of buildings was ablaze when the district officer…
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Travelling through the Northern Tableland during September and October of last year I was impressed with the possibilities of devasting bush fires on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fire of 1905
Who, that lived at the time, will forget the bush fires that swept nearly the whole State in January, 1905, leaving destruction and desolation in its wake?…
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WARREN, Monday.--Gillendoon woolshed, one of the best-equipped shearing sheds in the west, and owned by Mr. T. A. Walker, was gutted by…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Three Fires in House Strong Kerosene Fumes Maitland
After an outbreak of fire had been subdued, by a volunteer brigade in Paterson at 4.30 a.m. yesterday, a search of the cottage revealed traces…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With Fire Her Reply to Bailiff Perth
Resenting the action of a mortgagee in putting a bailiff on a wheat farm at Dalwallinu, which she and her husband,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Violent Electric Storms Strike Terror in Victoria Lightning Leaves a Trail of Blaze and Death Four Miles of Road Is Now a Debris Dump Paralysis at Switch
MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Terrific electric storms which passed over the greater part of the State during the week-end resulted in the deaths of two youths struck by lightning and the temporary…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--Another electric storm and further heavy rain to-day caused much damage in Victoria, particularly in Gippsland…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stables Burned Big Blaze At South Kensington
J. Phoenix's racing stables, in Hunter-street, South Kensington, were partly destroyed by fire this morning, when the fire occurred, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fires in Unoccupied Houses. West Maitland
Paterson police are inquiring into the cause of a fire in an unoccupied weatherboard cottage near Paterson on Saturday. The fire was noticed at 4.30 a.m., and the outbreak was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Woolshed. Warren
Gillendoon woolshed, one of the best equipped shearing sheds in the west, and owned by Mr. T. A. Walker, was gutted by fire on Saturday night. The shed contained [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Factory Fire Caused by Lightning. MELBOURNE
At the height of a brief thunderstorm this afternoon a flash of lightning, followed by a peal of thunder which shook the ground, struck two electric motors in the box factory…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shock for Tenant. Cottage Destroyed by Fire
When a prospective tenant arrived yesterday morning, with a large motor lorry loaded with furniture, to occupy a cottage in Chapel— road, Bankstown, he received a rude shock. A…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Onion-peeling Without Tears Fire Is Servant Once Again
Some surprising things are done in industry. Who outside the pickle business would think of peeling onions by burning off the skins?…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Balmain Blaze Heavy Damage Done to Strand Stores Brigades' Save
A FIRE which broke out in the Strand Stores, Darling Street, Balmain, last night, practically destroyed the building…
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