Fire in City Building
A fire broke out last night in the premises of the Meat Products Pty., Ltd., in Goulburn St., City. Firemen forced an entrance and…
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Fire at Ink Works
Firemen using foam extinguishers were able to check a fire in the factory of Inks and Products, Ltd.. in Barcom Avenue, Rushcutter Bay, yesterday. It is believed that the…
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Rain saturated an accumulation of dust and caused a short circuit among wires carrying 6,000 volts on a pole at the intersection of Alt and Waratah Streets, Haberfield, yesterday…
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Driven desperate by a shortage of food, rising prices, and currency depreciation, the Chinese poorer classes in the Japanese-controlled cities of Peiping and Tientsin have been rioting for two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£300 DAMAGE Bushfire at Glenorie
When a bushfire swept through Five Mile Forest, Glenorie, last week, £300 damage was caused on property owned by Mr. F. W. Nicholson. Much…
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Scores of fire-fighters are battling against a bushfire, which is raging on the property of Mr. v. Shoemark, near Tarcutta…
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Fairfield Volunteer Fire Brigade answered a call to a bush fire in Calabat Street, Fairfield West, last Saturday night. No damage was done…
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Liverpool Fire Brigade was called out to extinguish a sawdust heap which had caught alight next to the post office last Thursday. The same heap came to light…
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LONDON, Wednesday. Fire broke out yesterday on the world's biggest ship, the 85,000 ton…
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One speedster in the Traffic Court yesterday gave the excuse that he was hurrying to a funeral. A second said he was following a fire engine…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Roaring, screaming tigers, lions, leopards, and 125 monkeys were burned to death in a fire which swept through the winter quarters…
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Partly wrecked by a terrific explosion, which was heard over most of Ballarat, about midnight last night, the premises of George Oates…
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A fire broke out in the library of the new Cunard White Star liner Queen Elizabeth (85,000 tons). It was under control in two hours, and caused little damage. The fire is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Destroys Circus. Animals Stampede in City New York, Feb 11. (A.A.P.)
Elephants, llamas, zeb[?]s, mules, and camels stampeded in tha [?]ity of Rochester (Indiana) last night, when fire destroyed the winter quarters of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ships Attacked From Air. Machine-guns and Bombs Trawler Returns Fire. London, Feb. 21. (A.A.P.)
Enemy aeroplanes yesterday afternoon twice attacked shipping, 30 miles off the north-east coast. A Norfolk lifeboat put out…
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ILMA BENSON [?] is very dry here at present and the lanke are low. Dad has been carting water from the creek. The walls and the springs are also dry…
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Another dangerous bushfire near Wagga swept through about 2.500 acres of valuable mixed farming and dairying country before it was brought under control to-night…
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A BUSHFIRE to-day completely burned out the property of J. Jones at Corinbob. After burning from noon the fire was got under control to-night when…
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THE worst fire for more than 30 years has been raging all day in the Tarcutta district…
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John Wyatt, 58, was badly burned on the feet yesterday when he attempted to retrieve £210 from his but in Richmond Road. Blacktown,…
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