Child Burned to Death Fire Caught Clothing Goulburn
"WHEN his clothes caught alight while he was sitting beside the fireside at his home, in Grafton Street, Goulburn, to-night, Leo…
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Designer In Box Car Fire Harkness Denies Smith's Theory £20,000 CLAIM
Claiming that the fire in the "F. H. Stewart Enterprise" car on the Ninety-mile Beach was caused by some foreign matter,…
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DONALD JAMES HARKNESS, designer of the "Enterprise" racing car, of Parramatta Road, Five Dock, who…
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WHAT is believed to have been a deliberate attempt to bum down a house in Dowling Street Moore Park, was made early yesterday, when, on receiving a call, firemen from Darlinghurst and Headquarters found that four distinct fires had been…
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A mysterious series of fires occurred in a house in Dowling-street, Surry Hills, early yesterday morning. When firemen from Darlinghurst and headquarters arrived they found…
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More engineering experts were called for the defence today in the action by Norman Leslie ("Wizard") Smith for £20,000…
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Donald James Harkness, a witness for the defence in the action in which Norman Leslie ("Wizard") Smith is suing Smith's Newspapers for damages for libel, said yesterday that the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal on Fire. Subsidences Near Ipswich. BRISBANE
Following the recent subsidences at Blackstone, near Ipswich, it was discovered to-day that coal was on fire underground in the paddock where the subsidences occurred. It could…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rejects View of "Wizard" Builder's Theory of Speed-car Fire
Don Harkness, builder of the "F. H. Stewart Enterprise," yesterday told the jury, in the £20,000 libel action against Smith's Newspapers, Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gale and Fire at Wagga Electric Cables Down Wagga
High-tension wires which were brought down in the gale last night plunged the town into darkness band are blamed for a fire which severely…
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While the town was in darkness, owing to a severe breakdown of the electricity supply, a fire broke out in Baylis-street. Three shops were damaged and three members of a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Experts Give Evidence on Cause of Fire Windscreen Condition Racing at 225 Miles Per Hour Smith Case Speed, Air Resistance and Steering a Car
MENTION of loosened wires and a petrol-soaked rag were made yesterday in the Causes Court during the further hearing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Film Destroyed by Fire. Melbourne
Fifteen hundred feet of the negative of a film taken by Mr. Noel Monkman on the Great Barrier Reef for the Efftee Film Producing Co. were destroyed when a fire occurred…
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One of the expert witnesses called for the defence yesterday in the action in the Supreme Court by Norman Leslie ("Wizard") Smith against Smith's Newspapers, Ltd., to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Big Libel Claim Is Finishing Expert Is Questioned About Fire in Car
COUNSEL intimated to Mr. Justice K. W. Street at the conclusion of yesterday's hearing of the "Wizard" Smith £20,000 libel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Speedster's Claim Crawls Along Fight for £20,000 In Third Week Car Designer Harkness and His Opinion Of Fire "Wizard" Smith's Stay in N.Z.
WITH much talk of hurtling through the air at hundreds of miles an hour, the "Wizard" Smith claim for £20,000 damages from "Smith's Weekly" is crawling along to its legal destination…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Bonfires Did Not Blaze Dole Burning Was a Fiasco
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The "huge bonfire" of dole questionnaire forms set down for to-day proved to be a fiasco…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Brigade Competitions. Lithgow
Speaking at a public gathering, Mr. T. P. Nance, chief officer of the New South Wales fire brigades service, congratulated the Lithgow Fire Brigade squad on winning the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£5000 FIRE. Hotel Destroyed. BRISBANE
Damage estimated at £5000 was caused by a fire which, late this afternoon, destroyed the Hotel Metropole, at Esk. A change of wind prevented the post-office from being caught…
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A weatherboard cottage, owned by James Allen, retired railway officer, caught fire early yesterday morning. All the rear portion was burned, and the whole cottage would have…
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