Cronulla Volunteer Fire Brigade
Although over three weeks away, it is pleasing to record the possibility of the tables available for the annual golden helmet ball being booked out long before…
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Ship Berths on Fire. Two Firemen Overcome. Outbreak in Hold. Melbourne
A fire was discovered in the afterhold of the Dutch steamer Saleir last even-. ing, soon after the ship entered Port Phillip Bay…
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A fire broke out in a large letter-box at the intersection of Hunter and Elizabeth streets city, yesterday. When the police summoned the fire Brigade smoke was pouring out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Fell Into Fire: Fatal Burns
Walter James Crampton, 95, used to like sitting close to the fire so that he could stir it with his stick. On July 18, two days after his wife's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SALEIER Fire Extinguished MELBOURNE
The fire which broke out in No. 6 hold of the Dutch steamer Saleier as she was approaching Melbourne from Rotterdam, via ports, last night, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt To Fire Pillar-Box
A tightly-rolled wad of paper, lighted at one end, was used yesterday in an attempt to fire the mail in a pillar-box at the corner of Hunter and Elizabeth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Steamer. Heavy Damage. MELBOURNE
Damage to the Dutch steamer Saleir and her cargo caused by the fire in No. 6 hatch is estimated at several thousand pounds. The fire was extinguished by firemen early…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →23 Seamen Perish in Ship Fire Marseilles
TWENTY-THREE men were burned to death aboard the Spanish steamer Adutz Mendi, which was shelled and set afire by submarines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plucky Fight with Fire How Elderly Woman Saved Sister
Displaying remarkable courage, an elderly woman fought a fire at her home single-handed to-day and was severely burned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With Mailey Abroad the Innocents in Chicago Cricketers Under Fire
BANG! Bang! Bang! The Australian cricketers rushed for cover in Chicago's busiest thoroughfare and hid…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Five Die in Ship Fire Dive for Safety New York
IT is believed that five are dead as a result of a fire which broke out on the United States ship City of Baltimore, in Chesapeake Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese in Control of Tientsin. Fires in Crowded Chinese Quarter. Chiang Kai-shek Defiant. Fears for Foreign Holiday-makers. LONDON, July 30
The Japanese, according to a Peiping report, are in complete control of Peiping and Tientsin. They have captured Tientsin's port at the mouin of the Hai Ho. A large part of the congested Chinese quarter of Tientsin…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Explosion at Sea. Ship on Fire. Two Dead; Three Missing. Boats Rescue 90. BALTIMORE, July 30
Two persons are dead, five injured, and three missing as a result of an explosion and a fire in an excursion steamer—the City of Baltimore—in…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →£ 100,000 Fire at Alexandria Spectacular Blaze Guts Soapworks
DAMAGE estimated at £100,000 was caused by a fire at the premises of Australian Soaps Ltd., Beacons-field-street, Alexandria, last night. THE blaze was one of the most spec-…
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Firemen at work at last night's fire which destroyed the factory of Australian Soaps Ltd., Alexandria…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in the City
STARTED, it is thought by heat from covered lights, a fire in the show windows of Curzons, in Pitt-street, Sydney, last night caused about…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Stud Sheep Die in Big Store Fire Melbourne
In one of the most spectacular fires Melbourne has seen for years, Goldsbrough, Mort's wool store in Bourke-street was partly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£100,000 Toll in City Fire Thousands See Flames Sweep Soapworks Colors Flash in Cloud of Smoke Water Poured On Brigades Men As They Battle In Inferno Police Called Out
In one of the most spectacular fires seen in Sydney for years, the works of Australian Soaps, Ltd., in Alexandria, covering five acres, were destroyed last night. Damage totalled £100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Perish in Fire Big Melbourne Blaze Melbourne
Goldsbrough, Mort's wool store was partly destroyed in one of the most spectacular fires Melbourne has witnessed for many years. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aftermath Of Big Blaze
Damage estimated at many thousands of pounds was done by a fire which swept through the premises of Australian. Soaps, Ltd., in Beaconsfield Street, Alexandria, on Saturday night. Fed by huge supplies, of fat and tallow, flames, leapt hundreds of feet into the air. The task…
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