Cottage Fire May Have Been Deliberate
KATOOMBA, Wednesday. — A fire which destroyed a furnished cottage in Victoria-street, Katoomha, may have been started…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
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Fire Guts Hall For Second Time
GOSFORD, Thursday.—Fire gutted Ourimbah School of Arts, six miles north of Gosford, early this morning. The hall, which had also…
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SYDNEY: A fire today, which swept through portion of the Lion Brick and Tile Works at Chullora—…
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Fire badly damaged a four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Albert-street, Speers Point, last night…
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LONDON, Feb. 6, A.A.P.—Between 3000 and 4000 books, most of them irreplaceable, were damaged when a fire broke out in the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Two wedding gowns, a quantity of other clothing, and £100 in cash were destroyed in a fire which gutted…
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MANILA, Feb. 6. A.A.P.—Fire caused damage estimated at four million dollars when it swept through the town of Cotabato,…
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BERLIN, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—Five Russian soldiers exchanged shots with Russian sector German police in Berlin last night. A…
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SYDNEY.—A deck cargo of 900 drums of carbide on the passenger freighter Nellore, which arrived in Sydney today,…
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In its present the fire escape would not provide children with a safe exit in an emergency, the Headmaster…
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The chimney and part of the brick frontage were all that was left standing when fire destroyed a cottage in Gipp-st., Carrington, early this morning. The cottage was blazing from end to end when the fire brigades arrived and their task was a hopeless one. A 19-months-old baby was burned to death and five other persons injured in the blaze…
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TEHERAN, Feb. 10. A.A.P.—A fire at Ghadikola, in Northern Mazanderan Province of Persia, killed 12 people, injured, 30, and…
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LONDON, Feb. 10. A.A.P. — Lady Margaret Elizabeth Gaunt, 79, who divorced Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt in 1928, is reported missing,…
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A 19-months-old baby girl was burned to death and five other persons were burned about the face, arms and body when fire destroyed a cottage in Gipp-st., Carrington, early this morning…
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Newcastle, Hamilton and Carrington fire brigades were called out last night to a fire in old packing cases in Tickle's iron foundry,…
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This is all that was left after fire destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hunt, of Gipp-street, Carrington, early yesterday. Their…
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A decision to demand an investigation into the cause of the alleged water supply failure at the Carrington fire yesterday morning was made by the Newcastle and Hunter Valley District Committee…
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Fire which destroyed a cottage in Gipp-street, Carrington, early yesterday morning, burnt to death a 19-month-old baby. Five other members of a family were burnt escaping from the fire…
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LONDON, Feb. 13. A.A.P.— Nineteen miners are trapped without hope of rescue, behind burning methane gas, in a coal pit at…
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PORT MORESBY, Feb. 13. A.A.P.—Early yesterday afternoon fire destroyed the building housing the Administration and the…
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