Woman's Clothes on Fire Melbourne
GREAT excitement prevailed in a North Melbourne street when Mrs. Josephine Fogarty ran down the thoroughfare with her clothes blazing…
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Rugby Union Easts Won, All In Vain Blaze of Glory Exit Randwick Well Beaten
Six teams vanished yesterday from the Rugby Union competition, but a blaze of glory…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →£30,000 Damage in Fire Big Blaze at Brisbane Brisbane
Damage estimated at £30,000 was caused last night when four business premises in Stanley Street, which contained drums of oil, were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Week-end Fires. Cottage Almost Destroyed
Volunteer firemen from the Cronulla brigade worked hard to save a cottage in Bath-road. Sutherland, which caught fire early yesterday morning. The cottage, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cottage Destroyed by Fire
KYOGLE, Monday.-- A weather- board cottage occupied by Mr. A. Hale and family, on Merrigan Estate, was totally destroyed by fire to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fire Destroys House. Temora
At 2 a.m. yesterday fire destroyed a fourroomed weatherboard cottage in Polaris-street, occupied by Mr. M. Humphries. When the alarm was given the fire had a big hold, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Home Gutted By Mystery Fire
While Mr. E. Buckingham, with his six children, was visiting his wife, who is convalescing at Punchbowl, their home in Bath Road, Sutherland, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Home Burnt in Absence Fire at Sutherland
Early yesterday afternoon, a weatherboard cottage in Bath Road, Sutherland, was completely gutted by fire while the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unknown Men Fire Shots at St. Peters Resident
Detectives spent many hours yesterday investigating a report by William Cec[?] Goulden, of John-street, St. Peters, that an unknown gunman had made an attempt on his life…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£30,000 Damage. Fire in Brisbane. Brisbane
Damage estimated at more than £30,000 was caused by fire, which broke out in a building owned by Smellie and Co. Pty., Ltd., in Stanley-street, South Brisbane, early last…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fires in Cottages
A weatherboard cottage in Bailey-street, Westmead, occupied by a Mr. Agnew, who was away from the building, was destroyed by fire in a high wind last night…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire at Westmead
A weatherboard cottage in Bailey Street, Westmead was badly damaged by fire last night before brigades from Parramatta, Wentworthville, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tried to Remove Furniture Cottage Burned To The Ground Second Blaze
WHILE his home was burning down in Bailey Street, Westmead last night, Percy Harry Agnew risked death to save a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Lacking at Wool Sales Bidding Was Not Spirited Yorkshire Again Dominates
PUNCTUATED by comparatively poor periods of animated buying, yesterday's wool wiles in Sydney lacked the fire of the opening day and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Risked Life in Fire Data for New Big Liner Object Of "Queen Mary's" Record Dash LONDON
THE Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary had a tumultuous welcome from the vast crowds afloat and ashore when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Merrylands Fire Brigade
Merrylands Fire Brigade requested assistance from council, towards expenses of sending a team to Tamworth demonstrations next year. Council voted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire After Collision
Following a collision between two cars at the corner of Prince's Highway and President Avenue, Kogarah, last night, one of the vehicles knocked down this petrol bowser at New man's garage. Petrol caught fire and damaged the car as well as the bowser. The blaze was quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Officer Retires
The St. George District Fire Officer (Mr. W. D. O'Toole), stationed at the Kogarah headquarters, will retire on the 16th instant from the service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car on Fire
An unusual fire was caused last night when two cars came into collision at the intersection of President Avenue and Princes Highway,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Found at Fire Saturated Bagging
At a fire in a four-roomed cottage in Warialda-street, Merrylands, last night, bagging saturated with inflammable liquid was found beneath the…
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