Three Children Die in Home Blaze
THREE young children were burned to death when fire gutted their Parents' home, Silverdale, in the Camden district, on Saturday night…
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Fatal Blaze Accidental Police Theory Of Tragedy
Senior detectives who investigated Saturdays blaze at Silverdale, near Camden, where three children were burned to death, are satisfied that…
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A fire in a P.M.G. van in the city this afternoon caused the destruction of thousands of registered…
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Attempting to beat out a fire in her home in Elswick Street, Petersham, last night, Mrs. Lucy, McInnes suffered burns to both hands…
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JUVENILES are thought to have been responsible for the fire which caused damage estimated a £150 at the Glebe Public School…
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An attempt was made to set fire to Glebe Junior Technical School on Saturday night. On the blackboard of one of the…
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Detective Wilson of the C.I.B. arson squad, left Sydney for Gundagai last night to investigate a mysterious fire which was discovered in the hardware store of Mr. E. J…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fire in Bedroom. Woman Slightly Burnt
Mrs. Lucy Mcinnes, of Elswick Street, Peteisham was slightly buint on both handsand arms when she tried to smother a fire Which broke out in her bedroom yesterday. She…
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CAIRNS, Sunday--Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire at Mulgrave Central Sugar Mill, Gordonville last night…
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A railway carriage was destiovtd by fire at the Goulburn railway station carly this morning. It was reported that a special train of eight…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Marines, Rushed Ashore, Fire on Arab Raiders Jerusalem
RUSHED ashore from the battle-cruiser Repulse, a detachment of Royal Marines shot some of the Arabs who had raided the village of Shafa. H.M.S. Repulse arrived at Haifa…
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Damage estimated it about £10 000 was caused by a fire which broke out in the milling, section of the Mulgrave Centra Mill, Goldonvile, on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Letters Damaged By Blaze In Mail Van
ABOUT 2000 LETTERS WERE INCINERATED WHEN A MAIL VAN WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE NEAR THE LANDS DEPARTMENT…
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BROKEN HILL.—A fire occurred in the new shaft at the South Blocks mine recently. That no lives were lost or serious damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Falls Into Fire. Fatality at Wollongong. WOLLONGONG
Gladys Pollock, 5, whose parents live in a camp at Mount Ousley Road, Fairy Meadow on the northern side of Wollongong, fell into an open fire at the camp to-day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Zoo Study — N.z. All Blacks in Training — Rail Commissioners Confer — Mail Destroyed in Van Fire[?]
Tired or hungry? The zoo hippopotamus presented a yawning cavern to the photographer yesterday. For lunch the hippopotamus likes a few armfuls of hay…
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MORE than 400 miles upstream from the mouth of the Yangtse River, Japanese warships are crashing shells into the town of Kiukiang, situated at the entrance to "China's Dardanelles."…
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The Mayor stated that he was arranging far an inspection of the district by a postal officer with a view to obtaining better postal and telephone service in the…
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Sixty volunteers at Gaffney's Creek were unable to fight a fire in an old delicensed hotel here to-day, because the water pipes were frozen. The fire…
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on October 21, 1879. Two years later, the S.S. "Columbia" sailed from New York harbor equipped with these glowlamps, and the same year the main…
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