Set Fire to Shop Alleged
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Charged at Central Police Court to-day with having maliciously set fire to a mercer shop in George-street, Sydney,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1946
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£1000 Wingham Fire
WINGHAM, Friday. — Fire this afternoon destroyed the Exhibition Hall on Wingham Showground. The loss is estimated at £1000…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—The bodies of two men who were trapped by a raging fire at the 750ft. level of the Aberdare Extended Mine at Ipswich…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—In an effort to extinguish a fire which caused the deaths of two miners on Saturday, carbon dioxide is being forced…
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NANKING, Oct. 3. A.A.P.—The Government has officially stated it would agree to a nation-wide cease fire order on condition that the…
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BRISBANIE, Thursday.—Large stocks of timber were destroyed by fire which gutted the main machinery bed at Marsden's saw nill, Geebung,…
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Brigades from Belmont, Hamilton and Wallsend attended grass fires in the district yesterday. Outbreaks occurred at Pelican, off…
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Using an engine provided by the Fire Brigades Board, a fire brigade has been formed at Raymond Terrace and men are being trained by Mr…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Firemen from four brigades worked for almost an hour to check a fire which caused extensive damage to stock in the…
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MELBOURNE.—For an offence of "fiendish and wanton cruelty which seemed to have no point," Judge Gamble, in the General Sessions…
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TAMWORTH, Tuesday. — Thomas Grady, 72, was burned to death at the week-end when fire destroyed the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo…
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An automatic sprinkler extinguished a small fire in the drying room at Holy Brothers, Hudson-street, Hamilton, yesterday morning. Some…
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SYDNEY: R.A.A.F. planes will take a leading role in combating the bushfire menace this summer. THEY are to be used for spotting small fires, puting them out by…
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WHEN D. COHEN and Companys' bond store in Military-road, Newcastle, caught alight early on December 31,…
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NEW YORK, Oct. 13. A.A.P.—Five persons were killed and several injured, including four seriously, when a fire broke out on…
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SYDNEY.—A 70-year-old pensioner, said to have several times threatened to kill his daughter, yesterday set fire to a house in…
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A store room at the rear of Mr. D. B. Draffin's chemist shop, Mitchell-street, Stockton, was badly damaged by fire yesterday…
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SYDNEY: Evidence was given at Manly Court today by George Rankin Mackay, who is on the reserve of officers of the Royal Navy, that during a drinking party at the Dawson home at Palm Beach on the night of September 8, David Stewart Dawson turned off the wireless when the National Anthem was played and in a sneering voice said, "To hell with the King!"…
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LONDON, Oct. 14.—Because they Believed that their neighbours were exercising witchcraft against their four-year-old son, a Wiltshire couple…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A bomb developed by the R.A.A.F., which could extinguish fires, might be used to combat Victorian…
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