Fatal Hotel Fire in Victoria
The Terminus Hotel, one of the oldest hotels in Shepparton, was destroyed by fire on Friday morning, and Patrick Mackie, who was about to enter…
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Fires. Wheat Crop and Grass Destroyed
On Tuesday, 26th December, a fire occurred in a wheat paddock be longing to Mr P. Quinine, at Barooga and before it was got under…
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A fire at Myall Plains on Monday burned fiercely for some hours, over 2000 acres of grass being destroyed. It was started by lightning striking a…
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A fire broke out on Mr. O. Purtell's farm, Lalalty, on Monday. After a grass paddock was destroyed the fire was extinguished by the ralnstorn. Two…
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A bush fire which broke out on Mr. J. Sahey's farm, and traversed part of Mr. J. A. Renner's last week, destroyed between 300 and 400 acres of wheat. The…
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Dear Uncle Jeff,—I have written you a good many letters now. We are having very peculiar weather. One day it is hot and the next it is raining. There is a…
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About noon on New Year's Day a bush fire was observed from here to have broken out in a south-easterly direction about Gum Swamp Station…
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A number of fires occurred in surrounding districts during this and last week. On 26th December, about to acres of wheat were…
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The Berlin "Kreuz Zeituug" publishes the text of a secret memorandum which the council of the German Navy League transmitted to the Imperial Chancellor…
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In connection with the fire at the Terminus Hotel, Shepparton, Victoria, which resulted in Patrick Mackie being burned to death, the detectives…
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News has been received at Geneva that an immense fire and explosion occurred at the Dresden munition depot. The fire has completely destroyed a suburb Firemen…
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One of the best defences against the attack of modern infantry has proved to be wire entanglements, thousands of miles of which guard the fronts of opposing…
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A fire completely destroyed five business places in Mackenzie-street Woudai, early on Tuesday morning. The outbreak was first discovered in…
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As a result of the bush fire which broke out on New Year's day on Myall Plains, and burned across Nowranie, it appears that between 4000 and 6000…
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A grass fire took place on Mungadal on Sunday afternoon, and burnt an area, variously estimated at from five to thirty acres…
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On Monday afternoon, with the thermometer at 112 in the shade—the highest it has reached for nine years—an outbreak of…
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A large bush fire broke out at Butherwah, near Urana, on Monday. Two stacks of bay, containing over 100 tons, and 1000 acres…
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A fire occurred on the property of Means Day Bros., about 150 yards from the boundary fence, of Mr. J.M. Namera's Emu Park estate on Wednesday…
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In connection with bush fires in country centres converging on the town of Corowa, it is high time that some system was adopted--by whom, we do not…
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A destructive fire broke out on the Coreen Settlement on Wednesday which caused a great deal of damage before it was got…
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