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DASHING into a burning stable in an attempt to save a horse on Saturday night, Frank Sims, 56, the father of seven children, was so severely burned that he died later in Royal Melbourne Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire, the origin of which is unknown, yesterday destroyed a concrete building, packed with stored furniture, at the corner of Condamine Street and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A fire swept through a waste paper store at the Whakatane Paper Mills, destroying 300 tons of stock, valued at about £1,200. The brigade had to travel five miles to the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three fires, believed to be the work of the Irish Republican Army, broke out yesterday in the Great Western Railway Company's steamer St. David (2,702…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →About 600 persons attending a concert in the Malvern Town Hall to-night left the hall without panic when fire broke out in the roof…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ANOTHER industrial conflict is threatened at Wonthaggi, following the refusal of the management…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A fire of mysterious origin caused damage estimated at £3000 in the furniture store of William H. Hart, Condamine and Gordon Streets, Manly Vale, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twenty-four persons were killed and 69 wounded when the military police fired on a procession of 10,000 people which developed into a riot…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Trapped in a blazing weekend shack, an Australian, Gordon Robert McKay, 49, fruit preserver, was burned to death at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hindu and Moslem rioting broke out last night, Moslems objecting to Hindus playing music in front of a mosque. The police fired six times on the rioters,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At a meeting of the Rockley and district voluntary fire-fighting organisation, a statement was submitted by the treasurer, showing receipts amounting to more than £70…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returning an open verdict in connection with the Toolangi bushfire deaths, the City Coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M., to-day stated that he was inclined to agree with forest officers that fires were deliberately lighted…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cooler temperatures have improved the bushfire position in southern Tasmania. Although the sky is cloudly there is little prospect of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BOMBAY, Monday.-- The British district Superintendent of Cawnpore was injured in riots at Cawnpore, when police fired on the crowd. SLipore, when police fired on the crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Replying to the Anzac Fellowship of Women's intimation of their effort on behalf of bushfire sufferers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 20 houses are in the line of advance of a raging fire which is travelling through the Black Forest, between Woodend and Ashbourne to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MOREE, Monday.--When a snake ran across the floor in the old Greenbah Hotel, a few miles west of Moree, Mrs. R. Gildersleeve dropped an oil lamp…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How the scrubbing of a blouse in petrol had generated static electricity, causing an explosion in which a woman was seriously burned, was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An intensive survey has convinced officers of the Defence Department that the danger to the civilian population in the event of air attack would come from…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Federal Cabinet to-day allocated Lord Nuffield's £10,000 gift for bushfire relief as follows: Victoria £5.263. South Australia £2.632, New South Wales £1.579, and…
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