EXPLOSION. Heavy Damage. Fire on Ship. Two Men Hurled to Wharf. MELBOURNE
Damage estimated at between £8000 and £10,000 was caused by a fire on the Bass Strait passenger steamer, Taroona, this morning, while…
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Made Dive From Fire on Launch Young Girl Panic- Stricken; Four Men Burned Botany Bay
PANIC seized the occupants of a picnic launch when it caught fire in Botany Bay, almost a mile from Kurnell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Outbreak of Fire in Ship Damage Estimated At £10,000 Done ToTaroona MELBOURNE
DAMAGE estimated at nearly £10,000 was caused to- day. when a fire, believed to have been caused by a short circuit,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Acting Attorney-General, Senator Brennan, said today that the Court of Marine Inquiry would investigate the…
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All over[?]eated electric iron started a fire in Poison's millinery shop in George Street, near Hay Street, city, last night. Brigadesmen soon…
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Joseph Norton woke early in the morning to discover his bed on fire. He just had time to dash from his room in his pyjamas. His belongings, including some money, were…
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At 1.30 a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in the main street of East Orange, and destroyed Somerville's weatherboard fruit shop, and damaging a boot shop next door,…
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CONFLICTS between tobacco workers who are on strike and the troops have resulted in the death of 30 persons and the injury of 350…
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Caused by the fusing of the electric motors, two tram cars became ignited in the Newcastle suburbs this afternoon. The fires in both instances…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cricket Ground Blamed Echo Of Fire At League Match ALLOWANCES
DELEGATES at last night's meeting of the New South Wales Rugby League severely castigated the cricket ground authorities on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Radio and Fire-Fighting
AN interesting radio development, the first of its kind in the Commonwealth, is being planned by the Queensland Forestry Department. The department…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Worst Fire in History of Holland Amsterdam
THE biggest fire in Holland's history quickly burned down today the world-famous Stearine candle works, at Gouda,…
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A bush-flre, which menaced a number of residences at Woy Woy yesterday; was extinguished before serious damage was done. The…
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Firemen at work in a factory at Alexandria this afternoon where an oil and paint mixture caught fire…
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On many of the newer models ash trays are provided as standard accessories and, as such fittings can also be bought cheaply, they might well find a place…
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Gulidford Fire Brigade turned out on Sunday morning in response to a false alarm…
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One hundred gallons of black paint in the factory of Metters, Ltd., Ashmore-street., Alexandria, caught fire to-day and blazed fiercely for…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →A Strong Fire. Love Leaps O'er Difficulties
The love of Jesus is as a strong fire, the more it is knocked the more it kindles if it can do great things it addresseth itself unto great things: if it is able to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four Die Tragic Panic Cabaret Fire San Francisco
A GIRL cloak-room attendant and three patrons were killed in a panic caused by a fire in a cabaret early…
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A FIRE on the Aberdeen and Commonwealth steamer, Jervis Bay, berthed at Lee Wharf, to-day,…
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