Elderly Woman Fights Albury Fire
When fat on the stove caught alight and ignited the weatherboard wall of her home in Short street (by Alexandra Park), yesterday…
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370 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 19
To the Editor the Bush Fire Menace
Sir,—Referring to the article on “Bush Fire Menace” in Saturday’s issue, I consider that the careless smoker is responsible for…
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On Sunday afternoon the fire siren summoned the Corowa Fire Brigade to a grass fire on a vacant block in John street adjoining Mr. W. King's…
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A fire which broke out in a shed at the rear of a house in Church Street, owned by Mr. Russell Campbell and…
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About an acre of grass and scrub was burnt when a fire broke out on Monument Hill, between Minchin’s store and the War Memorial,…
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Early on Sunday morning a fire occurred at the wine cellars of Mr. A. C. Macknight, "Myrnlong," Wahgunyah, and as a result Mr. Macknight sustained severe burns from which he died in Corowa Hospital, yesterday morning…
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SYDNEY, Wed. — A fire in the chemical section of Taubman’s paint factory at St Peters to-night endangered the whole of the works…
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MELBOURNE, Wed. — Fire brigades, from four Metropolitan stations were called out to-night when a fire broke out in…
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MELBOURNE, Wed: Replying to statement by the State secretary of the Ironworkers’ Association (Mr B. Flanagan) last night that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further Memoirs-up to the Late 70's Wild Horses—Heat—Bush Fires
IN these further memoirs, up to the late 1870's, Mr. H. M. Eastman, "Old Morago," Deniliquin, related incidents in connection with the capture of wild horses which roamed the district in those days; his shock at seeing a red reindeer in the…
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SYDNEY, Fri. — Joint Coal Board was under fire from the Central Council of the Miners’ Federation to-day when the council…
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Albury [?] received a call yesterday afternoon to a fire which had broken out in a [?] of sawdust on a vacant allotment…
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MIAMI, Sat. — The pilot of a Constellation Airliner on a flight from New York to Palm Beach managed to reach Bunnell airport…
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LONDON, Mon.—Spanish troops fired on a Moorish Nationalist procession in Tetuan and killed and wounded a number of people…
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MELBOURNE, Mon: Men and women residents of the Arundel Housing Commission settlement and patients from Mont Park…
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BENALLA, Tues.—Early this evening a grass fire at Lurg, near Benalla, destroyed 150 acres of grass, two stacks of grass hay,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Dark Room Fire at Wagga Two Shockingly Burned
WAGGA, Tues: A street photographer and his female assistant were shockingly burned when a dark room in which they were…
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MELBOURNE. Thurs.— Cool change accompanied by slight falls of rain moved over the State tonight night and brought instant relief to…
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Albury fire brigade was called out yesterday; when fire broke out shortly after 5 p.m. In a large quantity of rubbish on a vacant…
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Over 250 men fought a bushfire burned about 500 acres of grassland in the Brown’s Plains-Chiltern-Wooragee North area yesterday afternoon. It was the first district…
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