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KEEPING FIRE FIGHTERS at bay with its terrific heat, a fire which destroyed the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's docks, Vancouver, on July 27 did damage amounting to £875,000. The Empress of Russia, loading cargo at the docks, was saved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twice in six years on the same date and at the exact minute, fire has broken out in a house in One Tree Hill. The cause of the fire was the same in each instance--the sun's rays focussing through the medallion of a leadlight window on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bank notes worth £187, left in a coat pocket, were destroyed in a fire which razed a weatherboard shop in Bayparade, Malabar, early today. In Woolloomooloo later, a fire in a chemical works…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ruined by fire early today, the interior of a shop on Bay-parade, Malabar, with traffic in the background. About £200 worth of stock and£187 in note were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YOUTHS who savagely attacked a detective on Saturday were fired on, one youth being severely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FORTY-MILE dash by Armidale Fire Brigade succeeded in saving the rear portion of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DAMAGE estimated at £7000 was caused when fire early yesterday gutted the Royal Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fireman E. Cowlishaw, of Fire Brigade Headquarters, sank to his knees in boiling oil and water when assisting to fight a blaze of crude oil at the works of Houghton and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Visitors to the administrative section of the County Council in the Queen Victoria Building shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday found a large number of the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mr. Sidney Webber had just returned from the wrestling match and retired early this morning when he was roused by smoke pouring into the bedroom of his home in Auburn…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The pavilion at the Kiama Showground was destroyed by fire last night. The outbreak was first noticed by the Rev. J. W. Watkinson, rector of Christ Church…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Frightfully burned when she was trapped in the blazing kitchen of her Punchbowl home this afternoon, Margaret McKenzie, 5, was admitted to Canterbury Hospital in a critical condition. The little girl's brother, aged 12…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A weatherboard and libre cottage in Hemphil-avenue, Mount Pritechard, owned and occupied by Mr. C. Bergman, was severely damaged by fire card on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The headmaster; Rev. W. H. Bain, and pupils of Queen's College in Speed-street, Liverpool, extinguished a fire which broke out in a room at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"What this country" wants is the lighting of a fire under it--some Peter the Hermit, some Savonarola, some…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Awakened early today by a terrific explosion, residents of Kilaben Bay, Toronto, found a weekend cottage on the lake shore ablaze…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hearing of a charge of murder against William Thomas Gash, 36, a road contractor, was adjourned at the Central Criminal Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The commercial manager of the St. George County Council (Mr. E. P. Thompson) reported at the last meeting that an earnest endeavour should…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trapped employees had to slide down a rope to escape from a fire on the first floor of the Arcadia Radio Factory, in Cleveland Street Redfern, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When a lacquering machine caught fire at the factory of the Areadian Radio, Ltd., in Cleveland Street, Redfern, yesterday, 20 employees working…
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