Timber Fire Near Depot Wharf
SYDNEY, Thursday.—More than £5000 worth of timber was lost in a fire at the Port Jackson and Manly…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
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£650 Fire In Home At Cardiff
A two-roomed weatherboard dwelling in Queen's-avenue, Cardiff, was destroyed by fire on Saturday…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Fire destroyed a garage owned by Messrss. Leslie Esler and Son, at Koo-Wee-Rup, on…
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Belmont and Hamilton brigades were called out this morning to deal with two small bushfires which…
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Brigades attended four grass fires in Newcastle district yesterday. They were put out before causing damage…
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LONDON, March 25. A.A.P.—Warsaw Radio announced to-day that "several dozen" miners had been killed in a…
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A small fire in the decking of a wharf at Carrington last night was put out by Cook's Hill and Carrington brigades…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.)—Forty-five miners were killed in a coalmine fire in Chorzow (Poland)…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Two men were burned when fire broke out in a £4000 luxury cruiser at Vaucluse to-night…
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Damage estimated at £20,000 [?] caused when most of the clubhouse of Maitland Golf Club was destroyed by fire yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Barking dogs saved a middle-aged couple from being burnt to death in a blazing cottage…
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SYDNEY.—A 39-year-old man who set fire to his wife's home while his eight-year-old son was…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Fire caused £20,000 damage at the factory of the Telephone Manufacturing Company at…
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ALGIERS. March 29. A.A.P.—British Naval officers paid tribute to-day to the calm, cheerful spirit of British servicemen, women and children as…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): Service officials yesterday ruled out sabotage as the cause of the fire which burnt out the troopship Empire Windrush on Sunday. The master of the vessel…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A man whose wife died last week, and a companion died from suffocation when the…
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PERTH, Wednesday.—Two soldiers were trapped by flames in a long, narrow tunnel at Leighton, eight miles from Perth, to-day…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Five men were killed and four were critically injured in a fire which destroyed the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla, to-day. The cries of men trapped in the hotel could be heard…
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NEW YORK, April 4 A.A.P.—The Police Chief in Vincennes (Indiana), Mr. James Harlow, said his order…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—The fire in which five men were burnt to death at Cunnamulla yesterday is believed…
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