Fire at Burns’ Cottage
LONDON, Mon.: While 400 sightseers crowded through the cottage of the Scotch poet, Robbie Burns, in Ayrshire, Scotland, on…
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Mystery Death in Fire Car
BRISBANE, Tues.: Police are puzzled over the death of an unidentified man in a mysterious car fire near Tewantin this morning…
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SINGAPORE. Wed.: Hundreds of thatched roofed cottages and two small rubber factories alongside Singapore’s gas works on the…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Fire caused more than £250,000 damage to a large electrical heavy equipment factory at Alexandria tonight. The factory is owned by the Lincoln Electric Co…
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Those yellow '“constructions” in Dean st.—council’s answer to the bicycle parking problem—are being severely criticised by cyclists…
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An electric light switch on Mate’s corner was burnt out on Saturday evening when it short circuited. The fire brigade was called, but…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Two Pressmen, a photographer and a car driver were held by security officers for more than…
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Conditions at Nore[?] Park came under fire at Albury Chamber of Commerce meeting last evening…
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SAN SALVADOR [?] Thurs: The most [?] fire in Central America, in years was finally brought under…
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A man, his wife and family of eight children escaped in their night attire after a fire broke out in the weatherboard home they occupied near Culcairn early yesterday morning. The dwelling was completely…
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Light snow fell at Albury yesterday as snow and rain storms and gale force winds lashed parts of N.S.W., South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania…
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BRISBANE, Fri.: Cattlemen hacked fences and gates on properties today to allow stock to escape from bushfires which…
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Three cartons of clothing were quietly collected and a [?] of money raised by the Culcairn CWA and police…
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BRISBANE, Fri.: A fire which razed the barracks at Zillmere housing project today left 120 migrant workers homeless…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Arson squad detectives revealed today that all power was cut off at the Randwick naval depot about two hours…
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MELBOURNE, Fri: Victoria will send the Chief Fire Protection Officer of the Forests Commission (Mr. E. R. Torbet)…
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BRISBANE, Sun.: The car[?] of hundreds of sheep and wild animals are scattered over an estimated 500,000 acres of…
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TOKIO, Sunday.—Vice Admiral Joy at the 21st session on the ceasefire talks yesterday accused the Communists of “slamming the door on every attempt to make progress.” According to United Nations observers,…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: Fire destroyed part of the roof of the Greater Hall at the Sydney University tonight…
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SINGAPORE, Tues.: Army sentries last night opened fire on 22 Malays and Indians, who were attempting to loot a copperwire…
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