£150,000 Fire
PERTH, Thursday.—Damage estimated at £150,000 was caused early to-day when a fire gutted the Hay-street store of Selfridges (W.A.)…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Servant Fires At Ambassador
SANTIAGO (Chile), Jan. 26. A.A.P.—The French Ambassador (Mr. Herve Grandin) narrowly escaped assassination yesterday when…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 26. A.A.P.—Five men died and four were seriously injured yesterday in a fire at an arsenal near Dover (New…
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HOBART, Sunday.—More than 30 serious bushfires and 20 smaller fires destroyed forests and threatened several townships in the…
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Mrs. Flora Newburn De-Vere, 40, widow, of Scott-street, City, was fatally burnt when her bed caught fire early yesterday morning…
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MELBOURNE: Fire-fighters are battling against two large bushfires in the Otway Ranges, Western District, one of the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A goods shed at Geelong, containing wool and other materials, was almost completely destroyed by fire…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Rural fire brigades and hundreds of volunteers fought scores of outbreaks throughout Victoria to-day…
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MANILA, Jan. 30. A.A P.-Reuter.—A fire on board the American President Line steamer. President Taft, which docked at Cebu city…
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A start by volunteer labour will be made on Saturday to build a home for the Evans family, of Lambton…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Bushfires were fought in almost every part of Victoria to-day. The fires are expected to…
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MELBOURNE: A drop in he wind reprieved Victoria today at least for 24 hours from the threat of its worst bushfires since "black Friday", Jan. 13, 1939. Eight serious fires are still…
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Maitland Fire Brigade was called late yesterday to put out a fire in the water-soaked wooden girders of the old floodgates on Wallis…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 31. A.A.P.—Eighteen persons lost their lives when a fire swept a convalescent home for the aged at Hoquiam…
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At Scarborough, Yorkshire, this year these scale models will reenact the famous Battle of the River Plate. The models are of the…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A woman fell to her death from a window on the eighth floor of the State Savings Bank in King…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Bushfires in Gippsland and the Western District burnt all day to-day. Townships and homesteads…
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SYDNEY.—Fire brigade officers will refuse to move to new stations today if ordered by the Board of Fire…
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Maitland Fire Brigade attended a tire in a garage at Ward St., Maitland, this morning where a new valve grinding…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Fire Brigades Employees' Union to-day instructed a section of Sydney fire officers to refuse to work under a…
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