Five Burned in S Fierce Fire Outbreak in Boarding House Wellington (N.z.)
Five persons escaped just In time from a boardinghouse at Waipu when the building caught fire in a storm, out all were badly burned and were…
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Proposed Fire Brigade
HILLSTON. -- The Chief Commissioner and five members of the Fire Commissioners' Board will visit Hillston next week, and will confer…
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Badly burned about the face, arms, legs and body when her dress was set alight while she was standing near a fire in a grate at her home in…
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LOST for five days in the rugged country in Megalong Valley, Blue Mountains, without food since Monday,…
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There is an endeavour being made by some municipal councils to secure the abolition of councils' contributions to the revenue of the Fire Brigades…
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IMMEDIATELY after the moment of impact of club and ball. Miss E. Parker, of The Lakes Club, keeps her head well down and her eye on the ball in the Country v. City golf at Rose Bay yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →40 Years Ago (Reprinted from the "Cumberland Argus," July 4, 1896.) FIRE
Try's cement works at Merrylands were almost completely destroyed by fire. Two fettlers, Messrs. Lampshire and Shibble, discovered the outbreak…
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GLEN INNES, Friday.--A Dennis Tamani high-pressure turbine, a most modem fire-fighting unit, has been installed at Glen Innes fire…
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The weatherboard residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Martin, at Boom Hill, Sedgefield, about four miles from Singleton was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. Mr. Martin was…
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HAVING fallen into a log fire at Blacktown Showground during the night and suffered shocking burns to the legs, David McArthur, 68, described by the police as a swagman, endured agony until he was discovered at 11 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →First Call for Year. Fire Out Before Brigade Arrived. GOSFORD
The Gosford Volunteer Fire Brigade to-day answered its first call for nearly 12 months. The fire was extinguished before its arrival, and so the firemen returned to their oidinary…
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THE day was very cold and I sat round the fire. The little log in the grate was burning merrily, and as I stared at it a small, whispering…
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Brigades from Headquarters, Darlinghurst and George Street West turned out yesterday to extinguish a fire which had broken out in a…
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"The evidence before me leaves no doubt whatever in my mind that the fires at these premises on June 3 were lit deliberately with the desire and intention of burning the…
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A Dennis Tamani high pressure turbine, a mast modern fire fighting unit, has been installed at the Glen Innes Fire Station. With a powerful engine, and fitted with pneumatic…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tragic Scene In the League Assembly. Man Fires Shot. Geneva, July 3
While the Spanish Foreign Minister (Senor Barcia) was addressing the League Assembly the delegates were horrified to see a man in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →In the Garden. Four Fire Thorns. (By "Redgum.")
Nothing is more cheerful during the early winter than a shrub or tree well laden with scarlet, orange, or orange-red berries. When the pleasures run into hedge form, many…
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PERCY BROWN, of the Whittingham Stud, would get a kick out of Fire King's win the the Princess Handicap at…
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J. Brown, a Grafton jockey, had to escape through a window when his home-made sweating-box burst into flames at the Lion Hotel stables this afternoon. Brown was not…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Legs Were Literally Roasted Man Is Shockingly Burned Beside Camp Fire Was in Agony
BOTH his legs literally roasted, when his clothing is believed to have caught alight as he slept beside his camp fire on…
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