Fire-damp Explosion. Brussels, Feb. 8. (A.A.P.)
Twenty-six miners were killed in a fire-damp explosion in a colliery at Marchienneau-Pont during the night…
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Plane on Fire. Pilot Lands in Field. Eleven Passengers Unhurt. MELBOURNE
Only exceedingly skilful piloting prevented a major air tragedy to-day, when some objectâbelieved to have been a birdâstruck the air liner…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hillston Handles its Bushfire Outbreaks
Many agricultural instructors, in their January reports, mentioned losses as the result of bushfires. The report for the Griffith-Hillston…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bushfire Danger to Motorists
While heat wave conditions continue, many motorists are compelled to drive through areas where bushfires are burning close to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fatal Collapse in Bushfire Perth
George Parker, who was married a few weeks ago, worked feverishly against a bushfire in the Katanning district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Tourists Cause Bushfires" Carelessness to Blame, Chides Premier
Carelessness of tourists caused many of the recent bushfires, the Premier (Mr. Mair) said yesterday. In lighting campfires, he said, tourists and campers failed to realise that their carelessness might cause huge…
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If a man sleeping on the lawn had not discovered it, a flerce fire in a guest house in Dangar Island. Hawkeabury River, early yesterday, might…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Guesthouse Gutted by Night Fire
Fire destroyed Dangar House, a guest-house on Dangar Island, in the Hawkesbury River, early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierce Fire Near Wagga. Wagga
The worst bushfire in the district for 20 years is burning fiercely to-night south-east from Wagga, menacing a large area of pastoral and agricultural country. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Old Homestead Burnt. Early Morning Fire
The old homestead at Dangar Island, in the Hawkesbury River, near Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Rain Sets Fire to Light Poles
LAST night 50,000 people throughout Sydney watched blazing electric light and power poles, set on fire by the rain. Light rain falling on to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →60 Poles On Fire In Rain
Rain last night caused fires in 60 Sydney telegraph poles. Accumulation of dust and other foreign matter is believed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All That Fire Left of Guest House
RUINS of Dangar House, guest house on Dangar Island, Hawkesbury River, burned to the ground on Thursday night. The lessee, 10 guests, and the staff of three had to flee for their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"On the Night of the Fire" (Gaumont-British Dominions)
THIS might have been a great film. It might have been one of those…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Fire Menaces Township. Tarana Outbreak. Women Aid Fighters. Bathurst
Hundreds of volunteers, including many women, are to-night fighting a fierce bushfire, which is advancing toward the township of Tarana…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →"Worst Bushfire in 20 Years" Devastation in Riverina Fighters From 100 Miles Around
The worst fire outbreak the Eastern Riverina has known for twenty years is in its third day, and is still raging, 25 miles south-east of Wagga. A great army of lighters and reserves have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bushfire Raging 10-Mile Front Ablaze Wagga
PERHAPS the worst fire in the Riverina in the last 20 years is now raging near Kyeamba, 30 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women Assist Men Fighting Bushfire BATHURST
Women are tonight helping to fight a bushfire in the Rydal-Tarana district. Already several properties have been burnt, but in every case the volunteers saved the buildings…
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THE bush fire menace still persists, and the hope for general rain is shared by fire-fighters, who were busy yesterday in the metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Woman's death in hotel fire
AUCKLAND, Saturday. -- Miss Kay Matthews, 20, housemaid, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed Lloyd's Hotel,…
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