Inquiry Into Cottage Fire. Wagstaffe Point
The coroner (Mr. W. E. Kirkness, M. L.C.) held an inquiry into the origin of a fire found burning under the cottage property of Mrs. Coombes, of Normanhurst. Six witnesses…
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Spectacular Fire In Sports Goods Factory. Damage Estimated at £15,000
Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused by a spectacular fire which destroyed part of the factory of Slazengers (Australia), Ltd., at the corner of Crown and Arthur streets.Surry…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Explosion in House; Family Badly Burned Pound of Gunpowder Goes Up in Flames Wall of Fire Mother and Children Screaming in Agony Adelaide
FIVE members of a family of six, and a daughter of a neighbor, were terribly burned in a gunpowder explosion in Flinders…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Manly Scrape Home Wests Nearly Pull Game From Fire
IN a game which had referee "Cocky" Mayne blowing like a trombone player, Manly, at home, scraped their may to victory over Wests 29-27…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Denied Anything Was Improper Police Sergeant and Wife of Another Man Kogarah Court Cross-Fire
A SERGEANT of police, cited as co-respondent in an impending divorce suit—for the moment giving evidence in another case—vigorously denying from the witness-box allegations of improper relations between himself and…
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For the fourth year in succession Mr. L. Fisher has Been elected president of the Fire Brigades Association of N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Light Station. Brisbane
Two cottages at the Bustard Head light station were destroyed by fire on Saturday evening, accoiding to information received in Brisbane by the Deputy Director of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Explosion And Fire Garages Destroyed PERTH
WITHIN a minute of the outbreak, two garages at Bunbury were destroyed by fire this afternoon. A man was filling his car with petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gave Fire Alarm And Then Faint[?] MELBOURNE
When a lift in a five-story building in Flinders-lane caught fire to-day, the attendant, Mrs. S. Oakes, after warning the occupants of the offices…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →30 Dead in Lyons Flats Crash Landslide -- Fire Paris
IT is estimated that between 30 and 35 people have been crushed to death in the collapse of two five-storey flats, in Quai…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Die When Flats Collapse Disaster Follows Fire Outbreak Lyons
A heavy death roll is feared owing to the collapse of two five-storey blocks of flats on the Quai d'Herbeville, on the right bank of the Rhone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Blaze Gave "Wizard" Fire Trial
EXTINGUISHING THE blaze which broke out in Wizard Smith's speed car, the Fred H. Stewart Enterprise, during an attack on the five-mile land speed record at Ninety-mile Beach, N.Z. Although racing at over 100 m.p.h., Smith was not hurt, and the car not damaged extensively…
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Extinguishing the fire on the Fred H. Stewart Enterprise, which caught alight recently on the Ninety Mile Beach, near Auckland, New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Appeals Board Fire Brigades and P.s. Teachers
Cabinet yesterday decided to introduce legislation providing for appeals boards for fire brigades and public school teachers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Busy Firemen 's 3 a.m. Search For Baby's Shoe Mother's Worry During Fire
WHILE the laundry and kitchen of a brick cottage in Old Canterbury- road, Lewisham, were blazing early this morning, a…
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Nineteen-year-old Graham Pockley, of Mosman, has invented an apparatus which he claims will prevent a petrol tank from…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire at Lewisham
Considerable damage was caused by a fire which broke out in Oliver Joseph McGrath's home in Old Canterbury-road, Lewisham, early yesterday morning. The fire apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire Outbreak. in Tairoa's Bunkers
A report from New Zealand states that a fire was discovered in the bunkers of the S.S. & A. steamer Tairoa, after the vessel had left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Still Under Fire British Sunday "Shows" LONDON
The House of Commons Standing Committee, by 27 votes to 23, passed an amendment limiting the operation of the Sunday Performances…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday. -- Almost blind, Charles Harkins (93) to-day told in hospital a…
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