Mystery Fire
A mystery fire destroyed a house in Katoomba-street, Katoomba, at 5.30 a.m. to-day. A quantity of fat, sugar and…
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Eventful Day Snakes and Fire at Golf Club Youth Again
The New South Wales Club had plenty of excitement on Monday. First, a caddie was bitten by a snake…
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A SPARK ARRESTER, the device being used by the Railway Department to minimise danger of bush fires, These, with the firer-breaks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Racial Fire
A typical recent scene in a Bombay street when Hindus and Moslems clashed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Killara Fire
ALTHOUGH members of the Killara (N.S.W.) Club had the contents of their lockers insured to the amount of £15, there will be…
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John Sullivan, 29, of Rathdown Street, Carlton, who was severely burned when his bed caught alight at his home yesterday, died in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →April Fire Is Fine Colt Two-years-old Trials at Randwick
More two-years-old trials took place at Randwick yesterday morning, when the barrier was erected at the six furlongs post on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Act Gold Prospectors And Fires
In moving at the Farmers and Settlers' Conference that the Mining Act should be amended to provide that the Crown assume responsibility for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire. Branxton
A weatherboard cottage, occupied by B. Mackenzie, who, with his wife, was absent at the time, and its contents were destroyed by fire. Besides Mackenzie's furniture, a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Local Fire Brigade Demonstration at Wagga
Who amongst us has not at some time within memory witnessed the damaging effects of fire upon the property of a neighbour or fellow citizen of our town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Long Bay Warder Fires Shot Convict Scuffles for Tobacco Barber Alarmed
THE other day a rifle shot echoed down the black corridors of Long Bay Penitentiary. A warder on the cat-walk above the remand yards…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Peril Criticism of Railway Methods Burning Off
RAILWAY methods of burning grass during hot weather, were strongly criticised at the conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hut and Car Destroyed by Fire Campers' Misfortune
A hut built of poles and hessian and an old car adjacent were totally destroyed on Sunday, on the Big Ponds Estate, Richmond Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Art Union Up In Smoke! Ticket Holders May Get Money Back Attorney-General's Dept. Raking Over Ashes Of Cobar Calamity
ONCE upon a time, way out west, it was decided to promote an art union, the proceeds of which would "be devoted to the assistance of the small settlers of the West, whose properties were damaged by bushfire." So it was that the Bush Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Roosevelt Opens Fire
Columbus (Ohio), Sunday.—Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, the Democrat candidate for the U.S.A. Presidency, opened his campaign last night with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Snatched Game From Fire
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday. -- On Saturday England beat New Zealand in the final Rugby League Teat, before 10,000 people, by 20 points to 18. Scores were 8-all at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Launch. Occupants' Exciting Experience
Four men on a launch in Athol Bight had a thrilling experience yesterday afternoon, when the engine burst into flames during a trial. The blazing craft was towed into…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor-cycles Catch Fire. Tenterfield
Joseph Beutel and David Slater, of Toowoomba, arrived at Boonoo Falls, Tenterfield, in the course of a tour of the country on motor-cycles. They burned a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Birds Burned In Midnight Blaze Family's Escape
More than 20 love-birds and pheasants were destroyed last night when a six-roomed weatherboard cottage in New Illawarra-road, Bexley, owned…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Newbold Silica Fire Brick
After providing for taxation, Newbold Silica Fire Brick Company, Ltd., shows a profit of £2602 for its year endrd July 31, against a profit of £57 for 1930-31. Dividend of 2½…
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