£400 Cottage Set on Fire Brothers-in-law Sent for Trial
WINDSOR, Wednesday. -- The District Coroner, Mr. Johnstone, this afternoon committed for trial Amos Green (44),…
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Coal Seam On Fire For 1000 Years Funeral Of Sir Adrian Knox
SYDNEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL EIGHT.--R. P. Thompson (stroke), T. N. Peters, R. G. Burrows, L. Moxham, C. R. Warne, A. L. Gay, J. J. Barcham, N. I. Blue (bow). MOUNT WINGEN, known as "The Burning Mountain," 10 miles north of Scone.--This part of the Greta coal seam, Professor David says, has been burning…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Three Pits on Fire at Greta Valuable Coal Deposits Now in Grave Danger Rail Safe Greta
FIRES are now raging underground in three collieries, Central Greta, Anvil Creek, and Old Greta…
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Daily papers being brought from Sydney on Tuesday morning to newsagents on this line, met with a mishap. Somehow or other bundles…
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The attempts to control the mine fires at Greta have been unexpectedly successful. Two of the shafts through which air has been finding its way to the fire in the old…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two Die in Big Hotel Blaze Sensational Escapes Exit Was Barred Night Peril Camooweal (Q.)
MR. SKINNER, well-known station owner, and Neville Radloff, 21, school-teacher. were burnt to death when the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smoke Now; Fire Later London, Thursday. (Official Wireless.)
Owing to illness, the French Premier, M. Tardieu, has been compelled to cancel his proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£12,000 FIRE. Film Theatre Destroyed. BRISBANE
Damage amounting to £12,000 was caused by a fire at Southport early this morning, when the Pier Pavilion Theatre was almost demolished and valuable talking film equipment was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Govt. to Seal Greta Air Shafts Mine Cavities Will Also Be First Tackled Action This Morning to Check Spread of Fires Railway Safe Baddeley Explains Steps Taken by Government
THE Minister for Mines, Mr. Baddeley, referring to the fires at the central Greta and old Anvil Creek collieries, yesterday said that…
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This frank, sensational story created tremendous enthusiasm in Sydney, and will come to the Dungowan thin Saturday, 30th. Featuring Edward G…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Brought Down Constable Fires on Suspects Man Arrested Melbourne
Shots were fired by Constable J. C. Anglin at two men alleged to have been detected attempting to break…
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GRETA, Friday.--An army of miners and railway experts is engaged in the work of smothering the underground fires in Greta coal…
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Reassuring reports came from Greta late this evening concerning the progress of the efforts to check the underground fires which, for a week, have been threatening the main…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hotel Fire. Two Men Killed. Vain Attempt to Escape. Brisbane
Two men were burnt to death in a disastrous fire which completely destroyed the Federal Hotel at Urandangle earily this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Greta Mine Fires Threaten Untold Destruction Deathlike Pall Drapes Over Countryside Fierce Underground Fire Threat—Coalfields May Crumble in Ruin—Tainted Water: Sleepless Nights
SMOKE . . . dense, billowing clouds of gas-laden smoke . . . draped over the countryside like a huge pall of death. . . . And beneath, a gasping, groping people, their lives in danger; the terrible destruction of their little world threatening…
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ONLY a thin column of smoke is now issuing from the Central Greta and Anvil Creek shafts. Officials declare that it is now only a matter of a short time before the shutting off of the air supply subdues the…
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Wellington, Monday.--Damage estimated at £1500 was caused by a fire which destroyed Pryke Bros., wool, skin and produce stores on…
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The annual report of the Board of Fire Commissioners shows that during the past year the quantity of water used for extinguishing fires was…
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KAITAIA, N.Z., Sunday. -- An attack by "Wizard" Smith on the world's five-mile…
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The Fire Brigades' Association of N.S.W., at its annual meeting at the Trades Hall on Saturday, carried the following motion:--…
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