Blaze Sets Off Cartridges
SYDNEY, Friday.—Thousands of rounds of rifle and shotgun cartridges exploded at Bourke to-day when fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
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Cliff Face Blaze At Display
SPARKS from the fire-works works last night started a fire over 2[?]0 yards of the cliff face between…
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Damage estimated at £1000 was caused by a fire at the rear of two shops at The Entrance early yesterday…
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Action at the firing point of the fireworks in Newcastle last night presented a contrast to the ordered display watched by the crowd…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Chicago police to-day rushed reinforcements to guard a new housing project from being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Canada Backs India On Indo-China Cease-Fire
NEW DELHI, Thurs., (A.A.P): "Without any doubt" Canada would endorse India's appeal for a cease-fire in Indo-China, the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr. Louis St. Laurent) said yesterday. Mr. St. Laurent is on a…
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NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.): Seven employees were killed and 21 injured early today by a…
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Newcastle Secondary Junior Technical School Parents and Citizens Association will protest to the Minister for…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Office workers in a Pitt-street building ran for safety when a fire started in a vat of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Frederick George Green, labourer, of Neutral Bay, had sprayed his wife with methylated spirits…
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Cook's Hill and Waratah brigades yesterday put out a fire which broke out in an oil vat at Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Long Delay Over Kotara Fire Alarm
A fire alarm approved for the corner of Joslin-street and Rae-crescent, Kotara, two years ago had not been…
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A wine saloon at Valla, near Nambucca Heads, was destroyed by fire early yesterday. The saloon and contents,…
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An old model car was severely damaged when it caught fire in a backyard garage in Newcastle-road, Lambton, last…
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BOSTON, March 4. A.A.P.—About 500 guests fled in their nightclothes from the luxurious Parker House Hotel…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Two men to-night drove two trucks through flames to save the vehicles when a fire gutted…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—More than 50,000 people to-night saw a fire destroy a four-storied city building,…
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VIENNA, March 7. A.A.P.—A fire that had been burning since March 15, 1952, at a Soviet-controlled oil well at…
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NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.).—Christian Williams, 50, plunged to his death with two children in…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A young couple and a lodger died in a fire which destroyed their home in Hill-place, Newmarket, early this morning…
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