£36,000 Loss In Tuncurry Hotel Fire
The Bellevue Hotel, Tuncurry, and most of its contents were destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Damage is…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
584 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 30
Three Burned Escaping From Guesthouse Fire
WOLLONGONG: Two people were burned and one injured escaping from a spectacular fire which almost completely destroyed a 40-room timber guesthouse at Wollongong early, today. Pyjama-clad guests leapt…
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WOLLONGONG, Friday. —Men and women smashed windows to escape from a fire which almost destroyed a…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.— Thieves got away with £1100 in cash in one raid at Elstern-wick this week-end, but others…
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Fire damaged the kitchen of a cottage in Maitland-road, Hexham, yesterday afternoon. The house was occupied by…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—An elderly spinster was badly burnt in a fire at Sutherland to-night…
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SYDNEY: A detective last night smashed, a window of a blazing house and fought through flames to rescue a shockingly burned woman while a man played a hose…
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GENEVA, Tues. (A.A.P.): A cease-fire in Indo-China is now almost certain before midnight tonight. Too French Premier's plan to end the…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — An elderly spinster who was dragged from the blazing bedroom of her home in Sutherland…
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SINGAPORE, July 19. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Fire Officer of Kalang airport, Singapore, said to-day that the…
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Stablemates Hans and Dark Fife pleased in six furlongs gallops at…
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LONDON: Hugh Campbell, 33, a fitter, was remanded at Luton on a charge of setting fire to a…
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Fire Dust, who created a good impression when he won the first division of the Improvers' Handicap at…
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WASHINGTON, Tues. (A.A.P.): A Trans-World Airlines Constellation plane made a safe emergency…
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LONDON. July 20. A.A.P.—Chinese Communist shore batteries fired on the 1935-ton British steamer Inchulva,…
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MELBOURNE. Wednesday. —Damage estimated at more than £100,000 was caused this morning when fire gutted two…
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LONDON: A woman of 86 was burned to death when her home at Grayshott, Hants, was destroyed…
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An organised maritime fire brigade may be set up in the Port of Newcastle soon, shipping authorities believe. They believe that, with the extension of works in…
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LONDON. July 21. A.A.P. —A fierce fire on the 3698ton Danish steamer Kronprinsesse Ingrid, in the North Sea,…
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GENEVA, July 21. A.A.P,—Peace was restored throughout Indo-China to-day, after more than seven years, with the signing of the last of three cease-fire agreements…
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