Joy-ride On Fire Engine Cost Over £8
PENRITH, Thursday.--At the Police Court to-day Francis Frizelie was charged with driving a fire engine whilst under…
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Suspicious Fire. Junee
There were suspicious circumstances in an outbreak of fire last night at the Methodist Sunday School Hall. The fire was extinguished before much damage was done, but bags found…
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The Club Hotel, a wine and spirit bulk store and cordial factory and store, and three cottages, were destroyed by fire at Cunnamulla at 3 o'clock this morning. The…
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If you don't answer these questions, I can send you to gaol. I won't have you evading questions in this manner," said the Parramatta…
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The issue of whether the engine of Penrith fire station was brought out in the early hours of Saturday morning, 4th inst, as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stifling Fires Is Long Job Hill End Craters Can Be Seen "Stink Money" Cessnock
WITH the smoke and fumes at a minimum, the many subsidences at the old Hill End mine can now be seen in all their magnitude and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nearly Caught Napping on Veilmond Just Snatched the Fat From the Fire in Desperate Recovery
KEN BRACKEN, hero of Poitrel's Melbourne Cup and other notable achievements of that magnificent stayer, is one of the veterans of the jockey ranks, but he hasn't lost his aptitude for seizing an opportunity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Boys and Costly Timber Yard Fire
MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Believed to have been caused by small boys lighting a fire in long grass, a blaze at Groves's timber yards, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bushfire Broadcast False Alarm Orange Is Surprised at Story
Orange police were surprised last night, when informed that an A class broadcasting station had announced that a bush fire was raging…
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When a fire broke out in a small area of bushland adjoining the old mil, End mine this afternoon, many people, under the impression that the underground…
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Two hundred sheep were burnt in the sudden fire which swept the Upper Murray properties of Messrs. A. Thorburn, B. Mann and P…
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Bathing boxes on the foreshore at Beach-road, Hampton (Vic.), destroyed by a mysterious fire, which broke out during the night. Police believe that an ince[?]r diarist was responsible for this as well as other fires…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Owned by C. A. Groves Pty., Ltd., a timber mill and machinery and nearly an acre of stacked timber on the Merri Creek,…
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ORANGE, Sunday.--For the first time in many years a bush-fire is raging in the Orange district. It is in the hills west of Mount Canoblas,…
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REJOICINGS throughout Germany which will conclude with torchlight processions and the lighting of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"This Was a Case of Arson" Mysterious Fire in Daytime Men in Car Removed Goods
"Apparently a number of articles of value were removed from this house in a barefaced way by three men in a motor car. There is no question that three men were outside the house on the day of the fire; but it seems strange that they should go in and steal things and then set fire to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BUSHFIRES. Girl Trapped by Flames. Farmers Serious Losses. Albury
Very serious bushfires raged in the Upper Murray district during the past two days.A girl was badly burnt.Thousands of acres of grass were destroyed holdings on the rich flats…
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LITHGOW, Monday.--Fighting to save several houses firemen spent nearly seven hours at different periods yesterday and last night to keep…
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Constable S. J. Beach, who was fired at early this morning by two burglars at St. Jude's Church, Randwick. The bullet Went through his waterproof…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Fires One Day Heavy Smoke Pall Over Lithgow Lithgow
MANY years have elapsed since the Lithgow Fire Brigade received three calls in one day, but yesterday, owing to the ravages of…
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