Famous College Razed by Fire
MELBOURNE, Sunday. DAMAGE of £10,000 was caused when fire early this morning…
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Five-hour Fight in Colliery Fire
MAITLAND, Sunday.--After a five-hour fight, Maitland and Newcastle firemen extinguished a fire in the old workings of Old Bloomfield Colliery, about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wauchope Fire. Hotel Destroyed. WAUCHOPE
About 3 o'clock yesterday morning fire destroyed the Star Hotel, owned by A G. Byrnes, and a billiards saloon, owned by L. Young…
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MANY sheep, thousands of acres of crops and grass, and miles of fencing were destroyed…
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A heal wave is likely in New South Wales, to-day, according: to the forecast issued last, night by the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire at Residence of Governor. London, Jan. 14. (A.A.P.)
The Governor of Northern Ireland, the Duke of Abercorn, escaped with the Duchess and their grandchildren, all of them in their night clothes, from a fire, at the Duke's residence…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →College on Fire. Boys Escape in Pyjamas. £20,000 Damage. MELBOURNE
Damage estimated at about £20,000 was caused by a fire which completely destroyed the administrative block at Longerenong Agricultural College,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Albury Bushfire. Albury
A bushfire which started on Nail Can Hill this afternoon burnt about 30 acres of grass and scrub on the Albury Common before it was controlled…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newbold Fire Brick
The terms of the issue of 72,080 shares in Newbold Silica Fire Brick, Ltd., at par in the proportion of 2 for 7 provide for payment of 5/ per share on application on or before…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →400 Dead in Japanese Fire
TOKIO, Monday.--A fire which almost destroyed the city of Srizokoa has killed 400 of its inhabitants. Three thousand houses and the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Sweeps City 300 Lives Lost in Japan. TOKYO, Jan. 15. (A.A.P.)
Five is sweeping through a section of the city of Shizuoka, about 90 miles south-west of Tokyo. Already 300 persons have been killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Combating Bush Fire Menace
The Bush Fires Advisory Committee asked Blacktown Council last Thursday to implement in its area a plan of co-ordination of services and effort…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires Taught Public a Grim Lesson
The grim experience of bush fires in this district a year ago drove home to many people their responsibility as citizens. This…
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Parramatta Council unanimously decided on Monday to nominate Councillor E. S. Shaw, a well-konwn Parramatta businessman, for election to the Board…
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Auburn fireman extinguished a grassfire in Chisholm-road, near Chiswick-road, on Thursday. Regret is expressed at the illness of…
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Cr. E. S. Shaw of Sutherland Shire, a well-known business man of Parramatta, is a candidate for the Fire Board election to he held on February…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Goomeri Fire Inquest
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Inquest into the deaths of eight persons who were incinerated when the Grand Hotel and Goomeri Post Office were…
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LONDON, Tues.--The great Are at Shizuaka. an important centre south-west of Toklo, which started yesterday, was extinguished this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Fire in Japan. Fifty Thousand Homeless. TOKYO. Jan. 16. (A.A.P.)
The fire that swept through the city of Shizuoka, 90 miles south-west of Tokyo, yesterday, destroyed 8,500 dwellings and rendered 50,000 people homeless…
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Liverpool Fire Brigade attended two calls last Saturday and Sunday to bush fires that were raging between Anzac Parade and Illawarra Road, Moorebank…
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