FIRE Blacklead Foundry Damaged
Severe damage was done when a fire broke out in a blackhead foundry, owned by James Cummings and Son, on Friday morning…
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Factory Fire Causes £20,000 Damage Hobart
Damage amounting to £20,000 was caused when a fire broke out in a property owned by Tasmanian Fellmongers Pty., Ltd., at Glenorchy…
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When Mr. Patrick Bolger's store, at Strathpine, caught fire, he and his family, who were sleeping in rooms above the shop, were not awakened until the fire had a strong hold…
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Passengers by a La Perouse tram which left the city about dusk yesterday were entertained by a series of fire displays…
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LONDON, Monday.--A fire which broke out within 100 yards of the liner Queen Mary brought every fire engine in Southampton racing to the dock…
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BRISBANE, Monday. -- Wakening this morning to find his house on fire, William Douglas Parkes, strapped on his artificial leg and roused other…
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CONVICTED at the Quarter Sessions of having set fire to a dwelling with intent to defraud, Ernest Augustus…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Effort to Give Fire Alarm Man Had to Adjust Wooden Leg Brisbane. Mnndnv
Believed to have been caused by the fusing of on electric light wiring in the celling, a fire broke out in a house this morning. A dairying…
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COFF'S HARBOR, Wednesday.--Following a fire at the butter factory last night, the police arrested William Frederick Gordon, 22, and…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Strikes, Riots Troubled Spain. Buildings On Fire. MADRID, May 5
There has been a further outbreak of rioting in Madrid. In many parts of Spain, strikes are hampering the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Three Guilty. Griffith Fire Case. Charges Against Police Not Believed. Narrandera
At Narrandera Quarter Sessions, Ernest Augustus Green and Reginald Spray were charged with setting fire to the dwelling house of Henry Lucca, at Griffith, on January 13,…
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WHAT preference is really extended to returned soldiers? I was surprised recently to learn that there are about 600 returned…
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A fire occurred at Mr. O. C. Brown's motor storeroom, Sydney-road, Granville, shortly after six o'clock this The flames were quickly…
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The Mayor of Hurstville (Alderman W. E. Smith) reported at the last meeting that he had attended a conference recently in Sydney, convened…
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The Catholic school at Ndareda, East Africa, has been reduced to a heap of ashes by a grass fire in the Great Rift Valley, which razed several buildings of…
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A fire, suspected of having been caused by children, occurred under the band rotunda in Cabramatta Park on Tuesday. A cricket mat used for practice…
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The third mysteuous fire within the last fortnight broke out in Thorley's undertaking establishment at 4 o'clock this morning Show and work rooms were partly destroyed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Child Falls Into Fire. Goulburn
Max Kershaw, the young son of Alderman Kershaw, overbalanced and fell into a fire at his grandfather's home, at William's Creek, Gundaroo, and suffered severe burns about…
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TO escape asphyxiation from the dense volume of black smoke on a burning launch in Darling Harbor…
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The Victorian Bushrie Brigades' Association, after investigating the recent disastrous outbreaks in Western Gippsiand, reports that only four…
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