Colonial Mutual Fire
The Colonial Mutual fire insurance Co.. Ltd., records a profit of £64,878 for the year ended December 31 last, compared with £57,066 in the previous year, an unchanged…
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1,967 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 99
2 Die in Hotel Fire
COPENHAGEN, Tuesday.--A visitor from Finland and the hotel chef were killed when fire destroyed the famous Prince Hamlet Hotel, Elslnore, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Sea Tragedy of an Emigrant [?]
OF all the dangers of the sea in the days of sail, none held greater terrors than fire. Wooden ships, with canvas sails, bituminous mixtures on wood and rigging, and packed with…
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Causing damage estimated at between £30,000 and £3,000 a fire swept through a large portion of the main business area of Chinchilla,…
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Although 22 bushfires were reported to-day by the officers in the Royal Australian Air Force plane sent out on patrol by the Forests Commission, few of them were serious, and…
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Staying at a boarding-house was a young man not noted for his early rising. One morning about six o'clock he surprised the landlady by walking into the kitchen…
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APRIL FIRE, who has been spelling, has been placed in work again by Ascot trainer, M. Griffiths. The same mentor has also…
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Trustees of the National Library today Interviewed the Premier (Mr. Stevens) and told him of the unsanitary conditions, the inadequate…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Severe Damage to Hospital Explosion Started Fire
An explosion which occurred in a laboratory at the Kalaoorlie Government Hospital this afternoon caused a fire which destroyed two wards and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£25,000 Q'land Fire Brisbane
Fanned by s stiff breeze, flames completely destroyed seven buildings in tee main shopping centre of Chinchilla, 250 miles from Brisbane, early…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Quebec's Disastrous School Fire, the Losses. Quebec, February 7
Official list of the Sacred Heart College fire at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, reveals that 40 boys and five Sacred Heart Brothers are dead or missing and 22 are in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire in Hospital. Patients Carried to Safety. £35,000 Damage. Kalgoorlie
A fire which started about 3.45 p.m. to-day, as the result of an explosion of an oil-burning steriliser, swept through the men's and women's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Public Library Fire Risk Deputation Seeks Reorganisation
THE chairman of the trustees of the Public Library (Mr. Justice Evatt) told the Premier (Mr. Stevens) yesterday that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hospital Fire. Patients' Graphic Stories. Nurses' Bravery. Kalgoorlie
Graphic descriptions of the fire which yesterday destroyed the men's and women's medical wards of Kalgoorlie Hospital (reported in late editions of Thursday's "Herald"), were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Fighter Plus! Helps To Put Out His Own MELBOURNE
Described as "one of the best firefighters in the Ferndale district," Henry Frank Grumont, 21, pleaded guilty to-day to three charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Violence by Armed Austrian Nazis Masked Band Fires Shots In Rival Meeting; Wounds Two Supporters of Govt. Alarmed at New Moves Nazis Now Appear To Have Political Monopoly; Demonstrations Of Others Are Banned VIENNA
First act of violence by Austrian Nazis against the Fatherland Front, hitherto the only legal political party in Austria, occurred in a suburb of Vienna last night…
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Bushfires have broken out in the Molong and Orange districts. The most serious outbreaks are near Molong where already a quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clyde Fire
Slight damage was caused by fire to portion of the roof of the bath-enamel room at the Clyde Engineering Company's workshopr on Friday night…
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WITH a 45 m.p.h. northeasterly, behind it, a forest fire yesterday destroyed more than half the 30,000-acre…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sea Battle Rebel Cruiser Torpedoed. on Fire and Sinking. Baroblona, March 6
In a naval battle off the Spanish coast, near Cartegena, between warships ftnd aeroplanes on both sides, the re[?]el cruiser Canarias (10,000…
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