Baby Perishes In House Fire
Sydney— A Two-year-old child wai burned to death in her cot when a fire destroyed a Weather board cottage in Arthur Street, Leichhardt, today. The child, Cheryl Farrelly, lived in the house…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Disastrous Ship Fire in W.a
Perth, August 8.—A fire which destroyed most of the £150.000 worth of cargo an the freighter Devanno. was extinguished today. Tea worth a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Barrier Miner Thursday, August 9, 1951. Korea Cease-fire Talks
THE war in Korea has entered its second year. The fighting has been intense at times and has spread tragedy and misery among millions of people. If the fighting has…
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Perth.— Damage caused by a fire in., the British freighter Devanha at Fremantle is estimated at…
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Sydney. August 9.—Two pressmen a photographer and a car driver were held by security officers for more than an hour tonight after they had entered…
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Brisbane— Cattlemen hacked down fences and gates on eight properties yesterday to enable stock to escape bushiires, which devastated 340,000 acres of central Queensland…
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A garden hose was used to extinguish a small fire in the roof of a house at 141 Sulphide Street, yesterday…
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At 10.32 a.m. yesterday the Central Fire Brigade was called to 141 Sulphide Street where there was a fire in the roof. It was extinguished with…
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Brisbane. — Bushfires in Central Queensland killed hundreds of sheep and cattle and caused damage estimated…
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Sydney.— Mrs.. Essie Peterson (83) who lived with her son (Kenneth), in a basement flat at Rose…
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Sydney.— People fled their homes carrying furniture and personal belongings when a fire broke out in a…
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Melbourne.— Three hundred male patients were rescued from fire at the Beechworth Asylum today…
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Melbourne.— It ls revealed that five patients escaped during the £500,000 fire which yesterday destroyed…
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Melbourne.— Yachts worth several thousand pounds were destroyed by a fire which gutted the Hobson's…
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Melbourne, August 17.—Minutes before the blazing top of Beechworth Asylum collapsed today, 400 male patients, many aude, were rescued…
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Perth.— Two girls aged 18 months and 3½ years were burnt to death, while their mother was in hospital with a four-day-old baby. The girls were Krysier and…
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San Francisco, Forest fires are threatening Pacific Coast areas. Slate and Federal forestry officials expect the worst, but hope for the best. They will know the…
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Some English and Australian cricketers engaged in tile last Test series in Australia are taken io task in two books published recently…
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A motor cycle valued at £100 was entirely destroyed by fire in Williams Street late Sunday afternoon. The machine, owned by Peter Alan…
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Sydney. — Three young children were burned to death at a sheep station at Albert, 50 miles north of Condobolin, last night. Their parents, who were visiting other station employees, at a nearby shed,…
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