Thieves Set Fire To Yacht
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A gang of thieves set fire to a £6000 luxury yacht in Bose Bay to-day after ransacking it and three…
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Fires & bushfires, 1950
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£6000 Luxury Yacht. Set on Fire by Thieves. Sydney, Tues
A gang of thieves set fire to a £6000 luxury yacht in Rose Bay to-day after ransacking it and three other yachts. The yacht, "White Cloud,"…
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[?]EAN FALLS (British Columbia), March 18.— Seven persons were burned to death In a fire which gutted a block of flats…
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Seven persons were burned to death in a fire which gutted a block of flats in British Columbia early this morning…
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MELBOURNE: Forests Commission officers say that nine bushfires near Mansfield, 112 miles north-east of Melbourne,…
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Mr. A. McLean, who has been chief station officer of Maitland fire district for the past four and a half years, has been advised of transfer…
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SINGLETON, Monday.—Little damage was caused to Mr. Aaron Clarke’s car when It caught fire at his Residence, Bishopsgate,…
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Early on Sunday morning Constable Keenan, of Singleton Police, took into custody three juvenile girls who had…
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RAYMOND TERRACE, Monday. —Port Stephens Shire Council today declared fire weed a noxious weed…
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LONDON, March 14.—People knelt in the streets to pray yesterday as priests helped firemen to quell a blaze which caused…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two men asked their lives to save a church Bible and stand from being destroyed by fire at…
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SYDNEY, Thurs. — Bushfires raging in the southern half West Australia blacked out the sun 50 miles from Albany…
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A fire which recently destroyed a large marquee in the main street of Forster has retarded a community…
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NEWCASTLE, Sat. — Three floors of a budding at the corner of Hunter and Newcomen Streets, in the heart of…
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LONDON, March 17.—A 15-years-old schoolboy set fire to a house, in which three women afterwards died, went back home…
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Only minor damage was done to some railway sleepers when a fire broke out near the railway goodsheds at Morpeth…
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Maitland Fire Brigade answered call to East Maitland this morning where they found a grass and scrud fire towards the Tenambit…
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LONDON, March 23. — Crews from fifteen fire engines early to-day brought under control a great blaze that threatened…
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SYDNEY, Thurs—Two men collapsed and one of them fell down three flights of stairs without injury while lighting a blaze…
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Because council considers the bush fire danger within the Shire still to be high, a request will be made to re-impose fire…
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