Fire Amid Adelaide Hills. Governor's Residence Threatened
A bush fire has been raging on the Morialta estate, near Adelaide, which was the property of the late Sir Richard Baker, and on Sunday came into close proximity…
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Fires & bushfires, 1912
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Bush Fires
Bush fires were again in evidence in the mines district yesterday. A little after noon a big fire started near the Kurri Cemetery, and swept across the bush on the cast side of…
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The fire at Osaka originated in a House of ill-fame, and the whole of the quarter was consumed, many of the women perishing in the flames. The fire spread to a crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest News by Telegraph. Sydney, Wednesday afternoon, Fire at King's School
The large stores attached to King's School, Parramatta were destroyed by fire this morning…
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A disastrous fire is raging in Osaka. Up till the present 1300 houses have been destroyed. A strong wind is blowing, and the flames are…
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The frequency of bush fires with all their attendant dangers in the now closely settled mining districts of South Maitland, if they show the necessity of one thing more…
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The mountains out at Bulga are still the seat of extensive fires, and owners of adjoining properties are continually on the alert to prevent a spread of the confiagration to…
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About 2.30 p.m. yesterday a bush fire approached close to some houses on the Standford-Merthyr-Pelaw-Main road. The residents of the locality became alarmed, and…
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Tokio, Tuesday.—A fire broke out at Osaka yesterday. No fewer than, 13,000 houses have been destroyed. The fire is still burning, fanned by a strong wind…
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London, Tuesday.—The R.M.S. Osterley has reported by wireless that she passed the spondilah, a tank steamer, on fire in the Indian Ocean. She had…
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A recrudesence of the fire at Osaka, took place last evening, and was extinguished at midnight. The damage is estimated at £3,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Warehouse Fire. Quarter. Million Loss. New York
A fire swept a seven-storey warehouse belonging to the Terminal Warehouse Company, near North River. The loss is estimated at £250,000…
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The fire at Osaka, Japan (reported in our general cables), is still raging. Firemen, with the assistance of the infantry succeeded in turning the flames to the…
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A fire broke out in the packing plant of Messrs. Schetartschild and Sulborger. The firemen confined the outbreak to the one building, which was destroyed…
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A telegram received in Sydney from Wilson's Promontory stated that the White Star steamer Suevic, which left Sydney on Wednesday, had signalled that a fire was burning…
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Fortunately the firemen in West Maitland have had few calls during the past year, and the few they had were not accompanied by very disastrous consequences in any…
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Tokio, Wednesdays—A recrudosence of the fire at Osaka took place lost evening, and was extinguished at midnight. The damage is estimated at…
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A disastrous, fire broke out on Robb's sugar plantation at Cudgen, near Murwillumbah, on Wednesday. Practically the whole of the standing cane Kind…
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