Set Fire to House Man Remanded for Sentence. Sydney
Duncan Hutton, 49, engineer, was convicted at the Quarter Sessions to-day of having set fire to his house at Kogarah, and was remanded for sentence…
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Fires & bushfires, 1932
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Japanese Warships Shelling Chinese Defences Near Shanghai Great Fire Follows Intense Bombardment Shells Pass Over Foreign Settlement Chinese Sustain Heavy Losses Shanghai
Japanese cruisers and destroyers opened an intensive bombardment or Chapei and Paeshan areas this morning, shells passing over the eastern and northern districts of the international settlement and exploding with terrific force in the areas occupied by Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires Raging In Victoria Mills and Homes Destroyed Two Lives Lost and Two Men Missing. Melbourne
A message received in Melbourne this morning stated that country districts in Victoria were again being menaced by bush fires. The latest outbreak is between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires in Casino District. Casino
Following extreme heat, bush fives nave broken out in Doubtful Creek, Dyraaba and' Dobie's Bight farming areas. The pastures on several farms have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Horror In Victorian Forest Nine Lives Lost Great Damage to Property. Melbourne
Nine lives were lost, three persons seriously burned, and great damage was done to property by bush fires which swept through Gippsland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tweed Cane Fire
The most serious cane fire for the season occurred at Banora Point, Tweed River, on Friday, when an outbreak developed on Mr. A.H. Bentley's farm,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Casino Hotel
An outbreak of fire occurred in the bar of the Oxford Hotel, Casino, at 4.45 a.m. on Friday, doing considerable damage to the fitting and stock. The blaze was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FIRE At REPTON Caines' Mill Gutted
Repton has been having more than, its share of fires within recent months for a village its size. Another occurred there early on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Raging in West Australia. Sydney
A terrific bush fire has broken out in the Darling Ranges, West Australia. Already many thousands of acres of rich dairy feed have been destroyed. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Bunkers Ulimaroa' S Race to Port. Sydney
When one hundred miles off the coast of New South Wales at 11 o'clock last night a fire in the coal bunkers of the Huddart, Parker liner, Ulimaroa, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fires at Dyraaba
Bush fires which broke out in the Dyraaba and Doubtful Creek districts on Friday did considerable damage to pastures. The holdings most affected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Serious Outereaks in N.Z. AUCKLAND
Bush fires continue to rage in the King country, New Zealand. Already groat damage is reported. Many families at To Awamtu are homeless, and numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burned to Death Old Man in Tent Fire. Bathurst
Shockingly burned when his tent caught fire, David Reid, 66, of Melbourne, died in the local hospital a couple of hours after admission. It is not known how…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N,z, Bush Fires No Loss of Life. Auckland
Bush fires in New Zealand show no signs of abatement. Many people were cut off temporarily by the flames, but fortunately there was no loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Western Bush Fires Damage in Coonamble District Coonamble
Bush fires broke out in this district. It took three days to control the fire front despite the ceaseless efforts of a big contingent of fire-fighters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Burnt Fire Near Copmanhurst
A Standard motor car, owned by Mr. H. R. Lyons, forest officer, of Pound street, Grafton, was totally destroyed by fire near Copmanhurst yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →S,a, Bush Fires Well-known Pastoralist Arrested. Adelaide
Alfred John Noll, 35, a well-known pastoralist, was arrested on a charge of having set alight property contrary to the Bush Fires Act. He was brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lightning Causes Fire
During the height of a storm when swept Edgerio (near Narrabri) on Monday last, Mr, R. Shields, sitting on the verandah of Edgerio homestead, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →House Destroyed Fire at Shake Creek
A seven-roomed weatherboard house, owned by. Mr. J. Moloney, was totally destroyed by fire at Shark Creek on Monday night. The house and its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Windsor Fire Coroner's Verdict of Arson Insurance Companies Criticised Sydney
At the inquiry held at Windsor concerning the destruction by fire of the home of Leslie Harold Day, at East Kurrajong, the corner found that the…
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